Publishing anxiety…

Publishing anxiety…

I think I have realized what it is that has me all worked up and not able to write. It all pinpoints back to the day I signed my contract for my agent to start submitting Wastelands of Oz for publication. I have publishing anxiety. I myself have never heard of it mentioned before, but I know this is what I have. I live, think, and breathe everyday about my book finding the right publisher or the…

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Publishing anxiety…

I think I have realized what it is that has me all worked up and not able to write. It all pinpoints back to the day I signed my contract for my agent to start submitting Wastelands of Oz for publication. I have publishing anxiety. I myself have never heard of it mentioned before, but I know this is what I have. I live, think, and breathe everyday about my book finding the right publisher or the publisher I want. If not the one I want, I want to find one that doesn’t POD and it will be on a shelf. Then I have people finding awesome companies that pay awesome rates that turn out to be POD companies and it bums me completely out!
I know I’m sitting on a gold mine with my writing. I’m that confident. But my anxiety comes from the what ifs. What if no one good wants to publish it? What if I waste a year trying to get it published and end up self publishing in the end? What if the writing was just a waste of my time even though everyone tells me how much they love the beta read of it. These are the things that swirl around in my head giving me publishing anxiety. This is why I can’t write right now. I now know why, now how to fix it….

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Limit on writing?

Say you started writing…and I just don’t mean here and there, I mean you wrote a masterpiece in 2 weeks. All of these ideas start filling your head so you jot them down. Another masterpiece hits you and in 5 days you have written a 60k manuscript. Both finished masterpieces are to be series books. You get 30k into both series sequels when suddenly, your brain quits. Its been exactly a year since…

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Limit on writing?

Say you started writing…and I just don’t mean here and there, I mean you wrote a masterpiece in 2 weeks. All of these ideas start filling your head so you jot them down. Another masterpiece hits you and in 5 days you have written a 60k manuscript. Both finished masterpieces are to be series books. You get 30k into both series sequels when suddenly, your brain quits. Its been exactly a year since you wrote your first novel. You sit and stare at your laptop wanting to write but your brain too tired to think of anything to type. Its not writer’s block per se because the story is there to be finished. Its lazy brain because your brain just won’t let you write what it needs to write. Then it dawns on you…what if you were only given this gift for a year. The year is up and all you have is 2 books that belong in series and the series are no where near complete and you have no will power to right. The writing muse is gone forever and your gift was taken with it. Your one chance at fame now gone…lost in the silent echoes of your mind.
You know you have some creativity, some brain activity because you sit here typing out this interesting blog analysis. But, the gift of spinning the stories do not come to your fingertips. Its not writer’s block. You’re writing. Your brain just throws up a haze when you think of the sequels. Your brain is on vacation while you are still left on the dock of the yacht.
You feel like you will be forever a two hit wonder because you could never finish the other books, only talk about how they would have ended great. You miss your chance at fame and fortune, movies, tv series, all because your brain left you on the dock and never came back from Haiti. Damn brain…always thinking for itself.

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Novel vs Screenplay…ugh!

Novel vs Screenplay…ugh!

Ok, so my sister found a screenwriting contest for me to submit my Wastelands of Oz story to. The catch? I have to rewrite the novel as a screenplay. LIKE OMG do you have any idea how complicated this looks lol I don’t know where to put scene headings, action, or transition etc. I need a book for this. It seems so much more complicated than writing a novel but they claim its easier. Aye aye aye!…

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Novel vs Screenplay…ugh!

Ok, so my sister found a screenwriting contest for me to submit my Wastelands of Oz story to. The catch? I have to rewrite the novel as a screenplay. LIKE OMG do you have any idea how complicated this looks lol I don’t know where to put scene headings, action, or transition etc. I need a book for this. It seems so much more complicated than writing a novel but they claim its easier. Aye aye aye! So I’m looking for the software and a book to do this. I have 5 months to turn this novel into a movie and become the next Warner Brothers lol!

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