Hello, gentle readers! Hope you are all well and staying safe!
Let’s see…what shall we talk about today? Oh,
I know! Yesterday, I sent Wife Wanted out to my beta readers. This is a
big step because believe it or not, I never feel like my manuscripts are ready
for eyes other than mine or my critique partner, but at some point, you gotta
let go so I did. I struggled though, thinking I should read it over one more
time, put it through the “editor” one more time looking for misspellings and grammar,
give it one more day to just think about it a little more.
I was procrastinating and I know I was (I should
have done it Friday or Saturday but waited until Sunday). Up until the moment I
hit the “send” button (the email was already prepared and sitting in my draft
folder), I still wasn’t sure it was ready, but sometimes, you just have to do
it. Does that mean to say I don’t have doubts about the story? Hahahahaha! I
always do, even after it’s been published and the whole world can see it.
In fact, it’s usually after it’s available to
everyone that those doubts hit hardest! Then those famous words “shoulda,
woulda, coulda” start playing havoc with my brain.
What’s the cure? I don’t know if there is any,
but I would have to say just moving on to the next story helps (a little). It
doesn’t stop the inner critic living in my brain (who sounds sorta like Meryl
Strep in “The Devil Wears Prada”, kinda condescending, kinda cruel, and I’m
sure, kinda right…come to think of it, it’s her voice I hear when I step on the
scale, too!). Do I think it’s a good story? I do. Do I think readers will enjoy
it? Well, I certainly hope so. I fell in love with my hero (but then again, I
always do), but will everyone else? Ugh!!!!
In order to stop those questions from ramping
up in my brain (and quiet that nasty, patronizing voice), I’m rushing full
speed ahead into Wife Desired. Hope that works!
Stay well! Stay safe! And remember to spread
kindness wherever you go!
Marie
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