All of us act as the principals in our own little life stories, ever seeking resolution and seldom finding it. Life, I mean and, for the purposes of this blog - WRITING!
Sitting alone in our darkened rooms or isolated at some coffee shop we dream of fantasy realms or advanced civilizations, the far future, or an imagined alternate now steaming from a very different past. We fly through clouds of imagination and soar above the mundane even as we wrestle with the dull mechanics of grammar and punctuation, of refining prose to razor sharpness, and turning the ordinary into the fantastic. The pieces we create through our writing are unique to us; something the Universe has never before beheld. Each completed piece is a shining achievement that we can treasure, at least for a moment before exposing it to the cold world.
That editors and publishers fail to appreciate the bits of genius we present, that they sully our dreams of perfection with petifulmonous quibbles and objections, is a mark of their ignorance. Don't they realize the I-ness of each piece? Don't they see that no one else matters, especially those whose skills at the word-smithing game are woefully deficient? No, no, no. They do not.
So how are we to deal with the mundane publishing world's ogres, of their refusals to acknowledge the wonderfulness of what we create? Do we curse the darkness of their souls, inveigh against the debased values they place on the written word, or do we demand that they take note of our existence? The latter usually produces few to little results.
And so we scribble ever onward toward oblivion, unrecognized for the genius within us, our revealed souls torn from our fingers. It is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing and when we are gone so too are all that we dreamt, all that we did, all that we said. But the words live on.
At least the published ones do.
#SFWApro
Sitting alone in our darkened rooms or isolated at some coffee shop we dream of fantasy realms or advanced civilizations, the far future, or an imagined alternate now steaming from a very different past. We fly through clouds of imagination and soar above the mundane even as we wrestle with the dull mechanics of grammar and punctuation, of refining prose to razor sharpness, and turning the ordinary into the fantastic. The pieces we create through our writing are unique to us; something the Universe has never before beheld. Each completed piece is a shining achievement that we can treasure, at least for a moment before exposing it to the cold world.
That editors and publishers fail to appreciate the bits of genius we present, that they sully our dreams of perfection with petifulmonous quibbles and objections, is a mark of their ignorance. Don't they realize the I-ness of each piece? Don't they see that no one else matters, especially those whose skills at the word-smithing game are woefully deficient? No, no, no. They do not.
So how are we to deal with the mundane publishing world's ogres, of their refusals to acknowledge the wonderfulness of what we create? Do we curse the darkness of their souls, inveigh against the debased values they place on the written word, or do we demand that they take note of our existence? The latter usually produces few to little results.
And so we scribble ever onward toward oblivion, unrecognized for the genius within us, our revealed souls torn from our fingers. It is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing and when we are gone so too are all that we dreamt, all that we did, all that we said. But the words live on.
At least the published ones do.
#SFWApro
