Shut Up & Write

You love it. You loathe it.
Either way, you can't help yourself. You are one of us.
(You are also a masochist. But that's OK.)

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Struggling (and more often fighting) writer by trade, and office monkey when I need to pay my bills. It's an enviable life.
I know, you're probably a little jealous now.
It's perfectly understandable.

July 13, 2005

Hell and damnation

A bad day is a lousy thing.
But a bad day coupled with some extremely negative feedback can be a crushing thing indeed.

Received a "wake-up call" email from an editor today, which said that my work has gone to crap. It was a pretty brutally-worded thing (goodness, don't sugarcoat it on my account) -- the sort of thing you would have bad dreams about, before waking up with a gasp of relief that it was all in your head.

But not for me. Not today.

The result is that I've had to evaluate some things about myself -- never a particularly good thing when you have a pretty hefty penchant for self-loathing and criticism. Decided that maybe I should just call it a day, and bid adieu to this whole writing thing. Which could be a relief -- my friends will no longer have to reassure me that I'm not the worst writer ever and feign interest in my work. My family will be delighted that I can finally pursue a financially viable occupation, and Chris will no longer have to deal with my fits of frustration, writer's blocks and generally moodiness.

Of course, I will keep the blog around. Bad writing never stopped a good blog -- or even a mediocre one.

I hate days like this.

2 Comments:

Blogger Rye said...

wow. awesome blog. keep up the good work. found you from Tali's blog.

Rye

9:33 p.m.  
Blogger /hg said...

"He" was actually a "she."

And they're right... to some extent. I don't think it helped that I wrote the assignment while under three separate deadlines.

And besides... I do suck.

2:48 p.m.  

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