Comments on: Found Wanting

By: Barbara Erwin

Barbara Erwin — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 03:41:38 +0000

Your writing ROCKS. Thank you for giving me hours of reading fun and wonderful stories and characters. And for making me think.
And thank you for writing about being “too x and not enough y.” I teach kindergarten and I’ll remember what you said. I’ve thought for many years about what an awesome, frightening responsibility teachers have – with just a simple word we have the power to inspire or destroy a child. I’m glad you found your self-worth.
With much appreciation and admiration,
Barbara

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:32:39 +0000

I spent most of my childhood just wanting to be accepted and hiding the fact that I liked to read and write. It’s not that my parents didn’t encourage it but they were afraid I was possibly reading to much (even after they spent most of my elementary years trying to force me to read). Crazy weird. Excellent post and motivating. The biggest thing I’ve learned in the last year is to just write and in that first draft to not care if the grammar is right, or the sentence structure is quite perfect. The point is to just get it down…and you know what….it’s working. I’ve just finished the 90th single spaced page of my novel and am just shy of 50,000 words. I’m not overly worried about the technical quality (which is to say I’m not going back and editing just yet) but rather the story quality. getting the story and the characters down. It’s been a blast.

By: yislash

yislash — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:45:04 +0000

Your description of your younger years is so familiar to me. I’m glad that you were able to find a way through it; I’m 40 years old and still working on it. I’m also finally getting serious about my writing, so your insights about what I might expect as I work toward publication is much appreciated. Thank you.

By: Alexia561

Alexia561 — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:41:19 +0000

You are a wise, wise woman and this is why your readers love you. Well, that and the fact that you’re a super-talented writing genius! Love you and your books!

By: Elisa Chase

Elisa Chase — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:40:11 +0000

As an avid reader of your books I agree totally with what you say about readers response.

I think we readers are a fairly discerning bunch, and even if there are little things about a particular book or style we find distracting or not quite…whatever….it doesn’t stop us from responding to the authors message overall.

I think you’re a wonder writer. I thought The Society/Hunter, Healer series was your best until I read the Dark Watcher series, then I read Dark Librarian (which incidently was the first book I bought, but I was involved with other stuff and got to it later), and now I’m trying to get the rest of your published works. I’m an eBook fan, can’t read a paper book anymore but I’m ham strung by the ‘geographic restriction’ biz that’s come into play in the last couple of months. That really annoys me, because even if I wanted to buy your books in paperback they aren’t for sale at any bookshop I’ve called or called in to, and we don’t have an Australia specific eBook store.

….and I’m guessing writers have absolutely no control over distribution at all, because that’s the way the world works.

Sorry, now I’m grizzling. Anyway, adore your books and your characters and I’m sure I’ll find some way to buy your books – even if I have to get a friend in the States to buy them on my behalf and send them to me. Be good to yourself (I follow you on Twitter – do you feel stalked?) your way more wonderful than you think.

kind regards
EC

By: driftsmoke

driftsmoke — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:34:02 +0000

I read your Friday post almost every Friday. Oftentimes, I say to myself, “I could have written that.” Your words strike a chord with me. That’s encouraging. It makes me feel a little less like a nutcase, too. Keep on rockin’.

By: martianmooncrab

martianmooncrab — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:23:03 +0000

being a writer isnt easy, and being a published writer is even harder.

And I will always buy 5 copies of your works…