Sure thing...

So if words are like bread, and they feed you as you write them,
then how do You choose to share them? Or do you?
It's a conversation we have in our writing group.

And, if you wish to have your bready words published, then how, and when, and why?

If you haven't picked up The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, it's a great book on writing, etc.

Meanwhile, got my first non-fiction manuscript rejection this week.
Surely this is supposed to inspire humility, a rethinking, a pause?
But it doesn't really. I'm just glad I know the yea/nay thing with that imprint.

What's the sure thing in your writing process?
For one friend, it's the writing process that's the sure thing.
For another? It's the writing and the publishing that count.
For me? It's the conversation, the shared wordy bready things.
The talk about what sustains us on this journey.

Have you ever been on an airplane for an extended period of time, maybe on the tarmac
and because of your hustle between connecting flights you have missed every meal,
and then you find yourself rooting through your stuff to see if you have anything
like a mint or a piece of gum, something wholly unsatisfying, but anything, because
your stomach is actually growling above the din of the plane's motor?
Do I want the words I share to be the linty piece of gum wilting in the bottom of my purse?
No. I want to write words like the spread before Johnny Cash in his "Hurt" video,
something you can choose to take or leave, but a big spread nevertheless.

So maybe the words are food, or maybe they're not, but if you're hungry,
you'll dig for something to sustain you more than a piece of gum.
And maybe that's something to write to: the hunger
And as Sheryl Crow sings, "Maybe that's something."



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go