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As I'm editing one book and writing another I come to realize the insecurity of sharing my work with others will never disappear. The closest thing I can compare it to is showing your first born to the world for the first time, the world making a face and pointing a finger, asking "What is that?".
*hesitates* Me: "It's my baby."
The World: "That's one ugly baby."
*eyes gloss over* Me: "How can you say that about MY baby?"
The World: "Because it's ugly."
*tears begin to stream* Me: "It's so mean of you to say you
This conversation goes on for a while until I have the world convinced my
So, what are your insecurities this month? Are you afraid someone will call your baby ugly *aka not like your book*?
6 comments:
They have and I just figured they weren't my target reader.
That feeling never goes away, but we can't let it stop us either.
I feel terrible when I send my babies out into the world, because they're so young and innocent and until that point they've only been cuddled by me (not literally you understand, that would be weird!) You just have to keep making babies!! *giggles*
Its even scarier when you publish your baby for the whole world to see.
Hugs and chocolate,
Shelly
I'm sure you have beautiful babies. ALL of them! :)
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - or writer/reader, as the case may be. Nice post!
Yeah, we can't please everyone... but the fear remains ;)
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