Goals change, and if your writing takes a back seat in your life for now, that's nothing to feel ashamed or upset about, life is like that. I can easily see how it could come to be that I'll give up riding - I don't want to do that, and it won't lessen my enthusiasm for horses, but it appears to work out that way, and I was probably far madder about horses than you ever were about writing.
I''m glad that you _were_ writing, and that you *did* go to the writer's workshop at DWCon at the Adelphi, because that was the first time i had the courage to step forward as a writer; and you also pointed me towards rasfc, for which I'll be eternally grateful.
Your short stories will remain in my memory. I understand how frustrating the submission game is - there are way more writers than open slots, and it appears to be easier to publish a novel than a short story, which is a rotten way to spend one's time.
My suspicion is that if you hadn't been busy writing, you would have been busy doing something else with equal enthusiasm. It's useless musing about the past, and quite frankly, beating yourself up for it won't make things better. You can't change the past. You can only work on the present, and try to improve the future.
When I'm back, would you like to be subjected to an endless slideshow ^H meet up? I am, as you might have noticed, a lousy e-mail correspondent, and it's ages since I've seen you in person.
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Date: 2007-08-24 08:16 pm (UTC)I''m glad that you _were_ writing, and that you *did* go to the writer's workshop at DWCon at the Adelphi, because that was the first time i had the courage to step forward as a writer; and you also pointed me towards rasfc, for which I'll be eternally grateful.
Your short stories will remain in my memory. I understand how frustrating the submission game is - there are way more writers than open slots, and it appears to be easier to publish a novel than a short story, which is a rotten way to spend one's time.
My suspicion is that if you hadn't been busy writing, you would have been busy doing something else with equal enthusiasm. It's useless musing about the past, and quite frankly, beating yourself up for it won't make things better. You can't change the past. You can only work on the present, and try to improve the future.
When I'm back, would you like to be subjected to an endless slideshow ^H meet up? I am, as you might have noticed, a lousy e-mail correspondent, and it's ages since I've seen you in person.