Today Michelle and I went to the Arlington Library for a program on publishing, "From Manuscript to Published Book." The speaker was Nichole Argyres, an editor at St. Martin's Press. Her talk was informative - she clarified some things I already knew, and I learned some new things, too.
She started by asking all of us to introduce ourselves and mention the book we've just finished reading or are reading now. There were about 25 people, and it was interesting to hear the varied tastes in reading. Some were reading fiction; many were reading health or psychology/self-improvement books; others were reading history or memoirs. She said a large part of her job is to think about what people are reading, and how the books she acquires will fit in with the reading tastes and trends.
She said her biggest challenge is marketing, and determining how to get the book to sell. There are many factors - the cover design, placement of the book in stores, publicity - but she admitted "it's a crapshoot" as to what actually sells. People will read what they want.
She talked about agents, and said that in general, big publishers don't buy unagented manuscripts. She said agents work out the business - especially the financial - side of book deals, so the writers can concentrate on what they do best: writing, and working on a book to get it ready for publication. She talked about advances and royalties, and the publisher's decision whether to release a book in hardcover or paperback original.
She backed up each point she made with anecdotes and examples of published books and their authors. She said that writing and editing are two completely separate talents - she respects writers for their creativity, and admitted that she could never write a book, even with a gun to her head!
Many people had questions, and she gave knowledgeable answers and helpful advice. Afterwards, Michelle and I (and others) talked to her for a bit. I said it was great to see and learn more about the publishing side of the business - as a writer and a bookseller, it helps me to clearly see the all the sides of publishing and how they link up in the life of a book. She said it's good to get feedback from the book retailers. She seemed very comfortable with speaking and it was easy to relate to her - she helped give a human face to publishers. So now they're not so intimidating! She said she might return next year - if she does, Michelle and I would definitely attend again.
This was a free program at the library, and the first one Michelle and I have attended. My parents actually told me about it - they read about it in the library's newsletter they got in the mail. I got a newsletter too, but I just glanced at it and put it aside, thinking that I don't have much time to spend at the library, because I spend so much time working at the b.s. I'm really glad they told me about it (thanks for your support, Mom & Dad) and next time, I'll pay more attention to the library and its events. I've always thought of libraries as important, valuable resources of literacy and community. School and public libraries helped my growth and development as a reader and a writer. I'm sure many other readers and writers would agree. I can't imagine the world of books without libraries in it.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Friday, March 30, 2007
Closer To Fine
I spent this morning rewriting my prologue for What Luck. I think it's better now - I'll probably fine-tune it some more, but it's getting closer to the way I want it. Closer to fine, to borrow a phrase from the Indigo Girls.
I read the whole 15-page prologue at our WWG meeting last night. I don't really like reading aloud - it makes me feel breathless - but I'm getting used to it. I never realize how long a piece I've written is until I've read it out loud. Last night, my 15 pages seemed to take forever to read! But everyone liked it, and they all gave me great criticism and suggestions.
I have a flashback scene in the beginning of the prologue, and I was concerned about it being too long. It was almost 3 1/2 pages long, and seemed to break up the actual prologue scene too much. Everyone agreed that I could cut it, especially two long paragraphs of exposition. Too much telling, and not enough showing. So today, I cut out those two flashback paragraphs, and wrote the information into a dialogue between the two characters in the prologue, as Michelle suggested. It works much better.
Also, Lisa mentioned that some of the subject matter in the flashback might not be something that would interest 'tweens and young teens. I think some of it is important to the story, so now I've skimmed over it, rather than put the focus on it.
Rich said I should be careful with the vocabulary, and make sure it's age-appropriate, so I changed some of the longer, bigger words to words that are more simple and direct. He also suggested that I keep in mind the things that kids are most interested in. So I'm really trying to channel my inner 13-year-old as I'm writing this story.
There were several things they liked. Lisa said the beginning sentences drew her in, and she liked the vivid details. Rich said he loved the metaphors, and thought parts of it were funny. He said the writing was very natural. Michelle really liked where I placed the space breaks between scenes - she loves to leave readers hanging so they'll keep going. They all said my characters seemed real, and they liked the premise of the story. And they encouraged me to keep it up.
So I'm going to e-mail them the newest version, to see how they like the changes. I really like getting feedback from my peers - it helps me to be a better writer. Thanks, guys - I really appreciate your comments!
Everyone else is making progress, too. Rich finished his short story, and read it from the middle scenes to the end. Wow - some powerful stuff. He wants to rewrite it, and then submit it to the literary magazine market. I really think it's got a good shot at being published. Lisa has gone back to the novel she wrote and finished last November, for the National Novel Writer's Month (NaNoWriMo) project. She said the book is about 99,000 words - it amazes me that she can write so much in just one month, and this is the third NaNoWriMo novel she's written! And now she's going to rewrite it. She read the prologue to us - it's great. Very intriguing. Michelle said she's up to page 83 of her rewrite of her middle-grade children's book. She's determined to finish it in time for the SCBWI conference, and I know she'll do it. This book has so much potential, and I hope she can meet the right people who will read it, and give it a chance.
Tomorrow, Michelle and I are going to attend the monthly SCBWI meeting at the b.s. Every time they've met, I've haven't been able to sit in on the meetings, because I've had to work. But I'm still on vacation, so now I'll be able to go. I'm really looking forward to it. I'll write about the meeting in my next post.
I read the whole 15-page prologue at our WWG meeting last night. I don't really like reading aloud - it makes me feel breathless - but I'm getting used to it. I never realize how long a piece I've written is until I've read it out loud. Last night, my 15 pages seemed to take forever to read! But everyone liked it, and they all gave me great criticism and suggestions.
I have a flashback scene in the beginning of the prologue, and I was concerned about it being too long. It was almost 3 1/2 pages long, and seemed to break up the actual prologue scene too much. Everyone agreed that I could cut it, especially two long paragraphs of exposition. Too much telling, and not enough showing. So today, I cut out those two flashback paragraphs, and wrote the information into a dialogue between the two characters in the prologue, as Michelle suggested. It works much better.
Also, Lisa mentioned that some of the subject matter in the flashback might not be something that would interest 'tweens and young teens. I think some of it is important to the story, so now I've skimmed over it, rather than put the focus on it.
Rich said I should be careful with the vocabulary, and make sure it's age-appropriate, so I changed some of the longer, bigger words to words that are more simple and direct. He also suggested that I keep in mind the things that kids are most interested in. So I'm really trying to channel my inner 13-year-old as I'm writing this story.
There were several things they liked. Lisa said the beginning sentences drew her in, and she liked the vivid details. Rich said he loved the metaphors, and thought parts of it were funny. He said the writing was very natural. Michelle really liked where I placed the space breaks between scenes - she loves to leave readers hanging so they'll keep going. They all said my characters seemed real, and they liked the premise of the story. And they encouraged me to keep it up.
So I'm going to e-mail them the newest version, to see how they like the changes. I really like getting feedback from my peers - it helps me to be a better writer. Thanks, guys - I really appreciate your comments!
Everyone else is making progress, too. Rich finished his short story, and read it from the middle scenes to the end. Wow - some powerful stuff. He wants to rewrite it, and then submit it to the literary magazine market. I really think it's got a good shot at being published. Lisa has gone back to the novel she wrote and finished last November, for the National Novel Writer's Month (NaNoWriMo) project. She said the book is about 99,000 words - it amazes me that she can write so much in just one month, and this is the third NaNoWriMo novel she's written! And now she's going to rewrite it. She read the prologue to us - it's great. Very intriguing. Michelle said she's up to page 83 of her rewrite of her middle-grade children's book. She's determined to finish it in time for the SCBWI conference, and I know she'll do it. This book has so much potential, and I hope she can meet the right people who will read it, and give it a chance.
Tomorrow, Michelle and I are going to attend the monthly SCBWI meeting at the b.s. Every time they've met, I've haven't been able to sit in on the meetings, because I've had to work. But I'm still on vacation, so now I'll be able to go. I'm really looking forward to it. I'll write about the meeting in my next post.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Progress, At Last!
I just finished rewriting the 14-page prologue of What Luck. I've been working on it for the past three days, and I'm finally satisfied with it. I feel like I'm making some progress on this book, at last!
I'm going to bring it to the WWG meeting tomorrow night at Michelle's, and read it to her, Lisa, and Rich. I hope they'll like it and will give me some constructive feedback. If they have some good suggestions, I'll rewrite it to make it even better. I'm good at rewriting - too good. I always seem to get stuck in the rewriting phase of a project, and never get around to finishing it. But I feel like I'm on a roll with What Luck, and I'm motivated to finish it.
I plan on sending the prologue in for the SCBWI conference critique. I've had very helpful critiques before (of other projects) at the last two conferences, so I'm really looking forward to this one. It's such an honor to have a professional novelist look at my work, and give advice on how to write it better. I've learned some important things each time. There are several writers and editors on the faculty this year, who have experience and expertise in teen and young adult books. So I hope I'll get a chance to have one of them look at my work.
The main reason I've been so productive with writing over the past three days is that I'm on vacation this week from the b.s. It's such a luxury to have all this time to myself, to focus on writing, and not have to worry about other obligations. I have four days left, so I also plan to finish Chapter 1. But even after I'm back to work, I need to keep this momentum going, and find enough free time to devote to writing, so I can keep making progress. I'm committed to this, so I'll find a way. I want to see the finished pages piling up, until I've reached the finish line.
I'm going to bring it to the WWG meeting tomorrow night at Michelle's, and read it to her, Lisa, and Rich. I hope they'll like it and will give me some constructive feedback. If they have some good suggestions, I'll rewrite it to make it even better. I'm good at rewriting - too good. I always seem to get stuck in the rewriting phase of a project, and never get around to finishing it. But I feel like I'm on a roll with What Luck, and I'm motivated to finish it.
I plan on sending the prologue in for the SCBWI conference critique. I've had very helpful critiques before (of other projects) at the last two conferences, so I'm really looking forward to this one. It's such an honor to have a professional novelist look at my work, and give advice on how to write it better. I've learned some important things each time. There are several writers and editors on the faculty this year, who have experience and expertise in teen and young adult books. So I hope I'll get a chance to have one of them look at my work.
The main reason I've been so productive with writing over the past three days is that I'm on vacation this week from the b.s. It's such a luxury to have all this time to myself, to focus on writing, and not have to worry about other obligations. I have four days left, so I also plan to finish Chapter 1. But even after I'm back to work, I need to keep this momentum going, and find enough free time to devote to writing, so I can keep making progress. I'm committed to this, so I'll find a way. I want to see the finished pages piling up, until I've reached the finish line.
Friday, March 16, 2007
A Writing Quandary / Solution
It's been another long time between posts, but I reached another sticking point in my current writing project, What Luck. And I tried to work it all out in my head, instead of on paper or in this blog. I always seem to do this to my writing - things are going along pretty well, and then I get to a potential problem, and I feel stuck. It's like some kind of self-sabatoge - there always seems to be something that keeps me from finishing a project. But I'm determined to finish What Luck, so I tried to tackle this problem head-on, and get past it, so I can keep writing. And I think I found a solution.
The problem is the age of my main character. I wanted to write the story for older teens, so I thought the girl's age would be around 16. But as I've been trying to write What Luck, it just wasn't working. As the character developed, she just didn't seem to be a realistic 16-year-old, in the context of the story. It became clearer to me that the main character's interests and concerns are more like those of a younger adolescent, around 13 or 14. Then the story makes much more sense. But I realized if I change her age, it changes the entire book, as well as the target audience - the readership would be much younger than older teens. I really want to write edgy, mature-themed books for older teens and college-age readers, but I can see now that
What Luck isn't going to be one of them. I need to just write the story out, and let it and the characters emerge naturally. And it will be the story that it's meant to be.
So I re-wrote the beginning of the Prologue, and read it at the WWG meeting last night. They hadn't heard the earlier version, because I've been grappling with it since our last meeting, but I told them about my writing quandary. But after I read, Michelle, Lisa and Rich all agreed that it seems realistic that it's a 13-year-old girl telling the story. And Rich said it's the most relaxed writing he's heard from me. I guess that's because I decided to get myself out of the way of the story, and just write it as I feel it's meant to be. And reading it aloud and getting positive feedback confirmed that changing the character's age is right for this story. Thanks for your help with this problem, guys, and for helping me get back on track!
I enjoyed hearing everyone's writing last night, as always. Lisa finished reading a long speculative fiction short story - I love her imagination and her ability to ground her preternatural ideas in realistic characters, settings, and details. She said it breaks all the rules for the speculative short story market - it's too long, and in first-person present tense - but it's so good, and I hope some editor is astute enough to take a chance on it. Rich read part of a new short story - more beautiful, spare language, realistic characters and a topical subject. It's excellent - I can't wait to hear the rest of it next time. I've really missed hearing his writing, and I'm so glad he's back. We all are. Michelle read a fun story she wrote for one of the "Write-Brain Workbook" exercises. It was good, with a great sense of humor and observation - I think she could expand it into a longer work, if she wants to. She's been focused on re-writing her middle-grade novel, Blackboard, for the SCBWI conference that we're attending in June. I sent in my registration yesterday afternoon - I'm really looking forward to it. I also printed out the registration form and information and gave it to Michelle last night. I hope that the conference will work out well for both of us. I have a feeling it will. Now I just have to keep up with writing What Luck, until I reach its finish line.
The problem is the age of my main character. I wanted to write the story for older teens, so I thought the girl's age would be around 16. But as I've been trying to write What Luck, it just wasn't working. As the character developed, she just didn't seem to be a realistic 16-year-old, in the context of the story. It became clearer to me that the main character's interests and concerns are more like those of a younger adolescent, around 13 or 14. Then the story makes much more sense. But I realized if I change her age, it changes the entire book, as well as the target audience - the readership would be much younger than older teens. I really want to write edgy, mature-themed books for older teens and college-age readers, but I can see now that
What Luck isn't going to be one of them. I need to just write the story out, and let it and the characters emerge naturally. And it will be the story that it's meant to be.
So I re-wrote the beginning of the Prologue, and read it at the WWG meeting last night. They hadn't heard the earlier version, because I've been grappling with it since our last meeting, but I told them about my writing quandary. But after I read, Michelle, Lisa and Rich all agreed that it seems realistic that it's a 13-year-old girl telling the story. And Rich said it's the most relaxed writing he's heard from me. I guess that's because I decided to get myself out of the way of the story, and just write it as I feel it's meant to be. And reading it aloud and getting positive feedback confirmed that changing the character's age is right for this story. Thanks for your help with this problem, guys, and for helping me get back on track!
I enjoyed hearing everyone's writing last night, as always. Lisa finished reading a long speculative fiction short story - I love her imagination and her ability to ground her preternatural ideas in realistic characters, settings, and details. She said it breaks all the rules for the speculative short story market - it's too long, and in first-person present tense - but it's so good, and I hope some editor is astute enough to take a chance on it. Rich read part of a new short story - more beautiful, spare language, realistic characters and a topical subject. It's excellent - I can't wait to hear the rest of it next time. I've really missed hearing his writing, and I'm so glad he's back. We all are. Michelle read a fun story she wrote for one of the "Write-Brain Workbook" exercises. It was good, with a great sense of humor and observation - I think she could expand it into a longer work, if she wants to. She's been focused on re-writing her middle-grade novel, Blackboard, for the SCBWI conference that we're attending in June. I sent in my registration yesterday afternoon - I'm really looking forward to it. I also printed out the registration form and information and gave it to Michelle last night. I hope that the conference will work out well for both of us. I have a feeling it will. Now I just have to keep up with writing What Luck, until I reach its finish line.
Thursday, March 1, 2007
Welcome Back, Rich!
Tonight Rich came over to our Wildwood Writing Group (W.W.G.) meeting. He had been one of the original "members" of our group, but hasn't been able to make it for several months. It was soooo good to see him!
Rich is one of my favorite people. I met him about 7 years ago, when he worked at the b.s. during his summer and winter breaks from college. He's now got a degree in creative writing, and works for the b.s. as a community relations manager, at a different, but still local, location. He's a vastly talented writer - he writes beautifully minimalistic stories, similar to the short story writer Amy Hempel. Whenever I've read one of his stories, I've been struck by the skillful way he handles complex characters and often difficult topics, in a short amount of space - sometimes just a few pages. I still think about details and phrases from his stories that I read years ago. Reading or hearing his work inspires me to be a better writer.
He also writes and plays music, and does artwork - I admire (and sometimes envy) his widespread talents!
He's been a good friend, and has always encouraged me in my writing. He gives constructive, thoughtful criticism and caring support to all of us in W.W.G. We've missed him, and so we welcomed him back with much excitement!
Tonight was fun, rather than productive. We spent a lot of time talking and catching up with Rich, and discussing where we're at with our various writing projects, and what books we've read that have inspired us lately. We also celebrated Lisa's upcoming birthday with cake and gifts.
Rich plans to come to our next meeting in two weeks, so we gave him our current writing prompt, derived from the Story Spinner. Our challenge is to use the words: horoscope, echo, and password; the setting: in a bedroom; and the beginning phrase: Birthdays are... in a story. I've been thinking about it a lot, and realized I can use this prompt to write a scene from "What Luck." I've started working on it, and hope to have it polished enough to read in two weeks. I hope to get some good feedback from everyone, especially Rich. He hasn't heard anything from this new book project, so I'm interested to hear what he thinks about it.
Rich's presence tonight made W.W.G. feel complete again. Welcome back, Rich!!
Rich is one of my favorite people. I met him about 7 years ago, when he worked at the b.s. during his summer and winter breaks from college. He's now got a degree in creative writing, and works for the b.s. as a community relations manager, at a different, but still local, location. He's a vastly talented writer - he writes beautifully minimalistic stories, similar to the short story writer Amy Hempel. Whenever I've read one of his stories, I've been struck by the skillful way he handles complex characters and often difficult topics, in a short amount of space - sometimes just a few pages. I still think about details and phrases from his stories that I read years ago. Reading or hearing his work inspires me to be a better writer.
He also writes and plays music, and does artwork - I admire (and sometimes envy) his widespread talents!
He's been a good friend, and has always encouraged me in my writing. He gives constructive, thoughtful criticism and caring support to all of us in W.W.G. We've missed him, and so we welcomed him back with much excitement!
Tonight was fun, rather than productive. We spent a lot of time talking and catching up with Rich, and discussing where we're at with our various writing projects, and what books we've read that have inspired us lately. We also celebrated Lisa's upcoming birthday with cake and gifts.
Rich plans to come to our next meeting in two weeks, so we gave him our current writing prompt, derived from the Story Spinner. Our challenge is to use the words: horoscope, echo, and password; the setting: in a bedroom; and the beginning phrase: Birthdays are... in a story. I've been thinking about it a lot, and realized I can use this prompt to write a scene from "What Luck." I've started working on it, and hope to have it polished enough to read in two weeks. I hope to get some good feedback from everyone, especially Rich. He hasn't heard anything from this new book project, so I'm interested to hear what he thinks about it.
Rich's presence tonight made W.W.G. feel complete again. Welcome back, Rich!!
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Back on Track
Wow - I haven't posted in a long time. But I feel like I'm back on track now. I've decided not to let all the stress I've been feeling lately affect my writing. So I've been writing my morning pages, and making notes and working on the beginning of "What Luck." I feel productive again.
Today, I started to train the Dragon Naturally Speaking program. I'm still not sure if the computer has enough memory for it to work right, but I'm taking my chances. I didn't want to wait any longer. Ian helped me get started. I did a 14-step on-screen tutorial, and I got through it OK. The program is cool, but it's not easy. I can see that it might take awhile for me to get comfortable with using the program, and to "train" it to recognize my voice. I've already learned that I have to be very careful with my diction and pronunciation. I used to be more articulate, when I was in drama and chorus in high school, and when I took radio communications classes years ago in college. But I'm not as used to reading things aloud, as I used to be. Also, my sinuses have gotten worse over the years, so my voice has a nasal quality. So when I read the tutorial sentences aloud, the program didn't type out the text as accurately as I hoped it would. For example, one sentence I had to read was, "Harriet, I hear you got a new job." I thought I read it pretty clearly, but the program "heard" it as "Harry and I hear you got a new job." So it's kind of frustrating. I'll just have to be more careful when reading aloud, and I need to practice working with the program as often as I can. But it's worth it. It's really amazing what this program can do. This is the first time I've used it, and I know that the more I work with it, the more I'll improve. I know it will save a lot of wear and tear on my neck, shoulder, and arm. And hopefully, I'll be more productive. I'll post ongoing reports on my progress. And I'll post more reports on my progress with writing "What Luck." I'll do my best to stay on track from now on.
Today, I started to train the Dragon Naturally Speaking program. I'm still not sure if the computer has enough memory for it to work right, but I'm taking my chances. I didn't want to wait any longer. Ian helped me get started. I did a 14-step on-screen tutorial, and I got through it OK. The program is cool, but it's not easy. I can see that it might take awhile for me to get comfortable with using the program, and to "train" it to recognize my voice. I've already learned that I have to be very careful with my diction and pronunciation. I used to be more articulate, when I was in drama and chorus in high school, and when I took radio communications classes years ago in college. But I'm not as used to reading things aloud, as I used to be. Also, my sinuses have gotten worse over the years, so my voice has a nasal quality. So when I read the tutorial sentences aloud, the program didn't type out the text as accurately as I hoped it would. For example, one sentence I had to read was, "Harriet, I hear you got a new job." I thought I read it pretty clearly, but the program "heard" it as "Harry and I hear you got a new job." So it's kind of frustrating. I'll just have to be more careful when reading aloud, and I need to practice working with the program as often as I can. But it's worth it. It's really amazing what this program can do. This is the first time I've used it, and I know that the more I work with it, the more I'll improve. I know it will save a lot of wear and tear on my neck, shoulder, and arm. And hopefully, I'll be more productive. I'll post ongoing reports on my progress. And I'll post more reports on my progress with writing "What Luck." I'll do my best to stay on track from now on.
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Frustrations/Challenges
I haven't posted in over a week. There's been something wrong with our computer and it's been hard for me to get online without the computer being extremely s-l-o-w or freezing up. Ian's been working on it, trying to fix whatever the problem is, and I guess whatever he's been doing has worked - tonight is the first time I've been able to be online without any problems so far.
Because I'm not computer-savvy, I can get very annoyed and frustrated whenever there's some kind of problem. I only know how to do basic stuff - go online, send and receive e-mails, and use a word processing program. That's about it. As long as it's all going well, I'm fine. But I admit I don't have much patience whenever I encounter something I don't know how to do, or whenever there's a problem with the computer that I don't understand.
The current problem seems to have started when we installed the new Dragon Naturally Speaking program. It's possible that this computer doesn't have enough memory to run the program along with everything else, so we might have to get more memory. Ian has installed more memory in the past, and it has made the computer run faster and better, so more memory might be the solution.
Right now, I'm reluctant to start using the Dragon program, because I'm not sure if or how it will affect the computer. I'm afraid the computer could crash, and it could be a costly hassle to repair it. I've still been writing, in my morning pages journal, my writing prompt notebook, and my notebook for my current project, What Luck. But I haven't been writing as often as I want to, and I know that I could write better and faster by learning to use the Dragon program and becoming adept at it. I know I should just try it, and see what happens. If the computer goes down, hopefully Ian will be able to fix it. I wouldn't be writing anything important with the program while I'm learning how to use it anyway. So I've just got to try it.
I need to see these frustrations as challenges instead, and not let them get to me, or get in the way of my writing. I know that every writer has frustrations and challenges to face. And I know that overcoming them will make me a better writer, and will make my accomplishments seem even greater.
So this is just a minor hurdle, that I will get over, on my way to the finish line.
(And I've finished this post with no computer problems - yay!)
Because I'm not computer-savvy, I can get very annoyed and frustrated whenever there's some kind of problem. I only know how to do basic stuff - go online, send and receive e-mails, and use a word processing program. That's about it. As long as it's all going well, I'm fine. But I admit I don't have much patience whenever I encounter something I don't know how to do, or whenever there's a problem with the computer that I don't understand.
The current problem seems to have started when we installed the new Dragon Naturally Speaking program. It's possible that this computer doesn't have enough memory to run the program along with everything else, so we might have to get more memory. Ian has installed more memory in the past, and it has made the computer run faster and better, so more memory might be the solution.
Right now, I'm reluctant to start using the Dragon program, because I'm not sure if or how it will affect the computer. I'm afraid the computer could crash, and it could be a costly hassle to repair it. I've still been writing, in my morning pages journal, my writing prompt notebook, and my notebook for my current project, What Luck. But I haven't been writing as often as I want to, and I know that I could write better and faster by learning to use the Dragon program and becoming adept at it. I know I should just try it, and see what happens. If the computer goes down, hopefully Ian will be able to fix it. I wouldn't be writing anything important with the program while I'm learning how to use it anyway. So I've just got to try it.
I need to see these frustrations as challenges instead, and not let them get to me, or get in the way of my writing. I know that every writer has frustrations and challenges to face. And I know that overcoming them will make me a better writer, and will make my accomplishments seem even greater.
So this is just a minor hurdle, that I will get over, on my way to the finish line.
(And I've finished this post with no computer problems - yay!)
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