What Does Success as an Author Mean to You?
Apologies for being late with my post today. The last few weeks have been all about getting my daughter ready for, and into, school, a school with an art conservatory tacked on at the end (and we are lucky that it is a public charter school in expensive Southern California), which means supply lists and meetings for two schools, at least for this last year of middle school, and I've simply been too much away from my computer. As a writer who never gets time to write, my thoughts, over the last few weeks, have been about how I can fit my own writing into my schedule, which, mostly, I cannot seem to do. And yet, as an author, I want success. How do I define success? I would define my own writing success as having a few levels. Writing success would begin with finishing all the stories I have begun, writing out the ones simmering in my head, or, if they are finished, giving them a good edit. Success level two would be soliciting their publication by someone besides myself. I want tha...