Confess it: Are you a book licker?
I love this recent post by Meg Cabot. I’m sure MANY of us, both beginning and professional writers, can relate to it.
Confess it: Are you licking your manuscript to death even now?
Fiction author Robin Brande talks about writing, reading, and other vital matters
Writing, reading, and other vital matters
7 Responses to “Confess it: Are you a book licker?”
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Robin. We’ve moved on from our food addictions, haven’t we? It’s not ‘adding fiber’ to your diet.
Stopping licking books. And desks, too.
Do I need to list all the things you should not be licking?
Funny you should try to deflect attention back on me, when really I thought about writing, “Are you licking your manuscript, PATRICK???”
WHY does she always know what I’m doing?!??
Sigh.
One more day to lick, then I’m letting it go…
Oh. Dear. God. This is precisely why I’ve been writing the save first chapter. For three. Years. Three years!!! I just can’t let it go, can’t go on to chapter two until chapter one is perfect.
This is why I’m an unpublished librarian with a boxful of unfinished, unpublished manuscripts that I will never let anyone see. Thanks, Robin. I think I needed this catharsis.
Tanita, is it salty or is it sweet? Because my manuscripts are like tortilla chips. Just wondering.
Elizabeth, I have so been where you are–except add 5 years to your total. The only cure for me was to set that manuscript aside and just write a new one for fun as quickly as I could, just to prove that I had more than one book in me. It was the breakthrough I needed.
My manuscripts are kind of like nachos. Salty. Tangy. Savory…
Sadly, their great deliciousness means in order to get them away from me, it requires a full-body, elbow-throwing, to-the-mat, shrieking and flailing intervention.
It went into the mail this morning. Done. Gone. Out of my hair ’til the revisions (please, God).
Oy.
*snicker* (the sound, not the candy bar–although I know a lot of people’s manuscripts taste like that)
Thank you for your very evocative description, Tanita! You’ve made me crave your book!!