Kate Pearce ~ Guest Blogging on the Weirdness of the Writing Profession

September 26, 2009 at 8:34 am | Category: Guest Blogger, blog

Writing is a weird profession. The way traditional publishing is structured means that you are constantly looking back at yourself and your work. From a print book standpoint, it takes about a year from acceptance of your manuscript to seeing it on the shelves.

I’m currently getting early reviews for my latest release, “Simply Wicked”, which I handed in to my publisher almost a year ago. While I’m trying to remember what that one was about, I’ve already finished the next one, ‘Simply Insatiable’, and I’m dealing with the copy edits, and I’ve finished the next one which is still titled ‘Simply VI’ which is due back in October.

And within those time frames copy edits galley pages, proposals for new books, books for other publishers flow back and forth. It’s less like a stream and more like a whirlpool where things constantly get thrown back at you. When I look at the book that is out this month, I always know that I could probably write it even better, even tighter now, but it’s too late. It is how it is- because at that point in my writing life it was truly the best it could be.

I’ve often wondered if I’m the only author who thinks like this, but I doubt it. I know a lot of my writing friends won’t even go back and read their published books in case they hate them. Not me, I read every page and enjoy where I was when I wrote that book and look forward to making the next one even better.

How about you? Writers do you ever refuse to let go of a piece of work because you are convinced it will never be perfect? Readers do you ever wish you could rewrite a favorite authors book for them?

~Kate Pearce

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~Sandy

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