By the time I reached adulthood I knew not to trust anyone. I knew to take things seriously. Not to say out loud anything that mattered to me. Not to expect anyone’s help. To be leery of people who wanted to help. To leave my body if I needed to.
I have been compelled to write the story of my unusual childhood, and now eighteen years after starting my project, I have an agent and a completed manuscript that’s making the rounds at various notable publishing houses. Join me next Tuesday night at the Brandywine Valley Writers Group where I’ll lead a discussion on The Writer’s Journey.
I’ll be using Austin Kleon’s book, Show Your Work “a best-selling guide to getting your work discovered,” to help me describe my own path. I’ll be using his points to make my points. He says that work, or in our case, writing, “is about process not product and that by being open and freely sharing your process you can gain a following that you can then use for fellowship, feedback or patronage.”
My own process has been slow for good reason, and I’ll talk about the hurdles we all face in trying to move forward in the seemingly solitary pursuit of “being an author.”
Meet us at Ryan’s Pub in West Chester, PA at 7:00pm to join in the conversation about The Writer’s Journey.
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Congratulations! That is fantastic! I too am pursuing publishing and hope you will share more here on the blog about your journey. I also enjoy Austin Kleon’s work- I subscribe to his newsletter and am currently going through his recent book “Keep Going”. Very inspiring. Best of luck to you!
Thanks so much for stopping by. I’ll be doing this talk on The Writer’s Journey this spring at the Wilmington Writers Group, the Main Line Writers Group and the Langhorne Writers Group. Stop by if you are near. You can also hear an interview I’ll be doing on The Avid Reader Show, a podcast out of the Wellington Square Bookstore, in early March. I am such a fan of Diary of a Word Nerd and appreciate that you are there to provide insights on one of my favorite topics: words! Hope your road to publishing is faster than mine, but then again, (cliche alert…) “It’s the journey.”