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Vanessa

Thanks for catching my error. You’ve got a good eye. The interesting thing is that Writing Romance is in its third edition and you’re the first person to point out that error. Good catch. I’ve made a note in my revision file to fix it if we go into a fourth edition.

Good luck with your writing.

Vanessa

I wish you the best of luck with Fortune Cookies – I like that title!

Keep me posted

Vanessa

When I think rationally about rejection of an artistic work – book, song, painting, or any other creation – I like to use my own responses to the bestseller list as an example of why we shouldn’t take to heart the judgment of one editor or critic. When I browse the top 10 books in a bookstore, I frequently have little interest in more than one or two of them. Sometimes there’s nothing I want to read in the list at all. Every person has individual tastes, and editors and critics are people. Their individual preferences strongly influence their acceptance or rejection.

The process of creation is, as you say, a solitary one and most writers I know are prone to vulnerable feelings when their work is judged. It’s very affirming for writers to read reminders like yours that failure and success are labels that we shouldn’t take too seriously.

Thanks for dropping in to share your thoughts.
Vanessa

And really, why does a creation have to be first, or even fiftieth? As a writer, I know that what I want is for people to read my work and feel the time was well spent. Not all people or even most. Some people, and if it’s enough people to allow me to continue writing, then I’m more than happy. If, like Moby Dick, the sales come much later – well, that’s Ok too.

On the subject of rejection, it is well to remember that Moby Dick, arguably the greatest American novel written thus far, sold only 3000 (or so) copies in Herman Melville’s lifetime!

The point of the matter is that if you can write a great novel, sooner or later the value of your work may be discovered – even if you do not live to see it. And when it is finished, you will always have the personal satisfaction of having done it.

There are many unsung heros and heroines amonst us, in fiction as in life. The author, not unlike any other person, is always alone in the laboratory (or the labyrinth) of his own mind. He or she may or may not find companions, or readers, to share ideas and musings with; and that’s OK, too. It is in that sense, however, that all creative persons are very much alone and fearful of rejection.

Why must everything we do be instantly judged as a failure or a success, when nothing is necessarily one or the other?

My hero husband has finished the repairs and our road trip will continue tomorrow. We’ve enjoyed our stay here – what a treat! Will be trying a local restaurant with an excellent reputation tonight

Vanessa