It’s the first Wednesday of the month again. Oh my, can you believe we’re already two-thirds through 2020? I can’t. In any case, the first Wednesday of the month is the #IWSG posting day.
I haven’t been doing as well as I’d hoped in the writing department over the month of August. Yes, I did post to this blog several times a week each week. I remember my husband at one point, when I was in the mental hospital and particularly lethargic, encouraged me to write one blog post each week. It’s been forever since I last struggled with that, but still, I want more.
I saw a few weeks ago that Chicken Soup for the Soul have a book coming out about tough times because of the COVID-19 lockdown. I thought of submitting a story about my husband’s and my forced lack of seeing each other for the first three months of quarantine. Still, I feel pretty insecure and fear rejection. I know, as a writer, rejection is part of the business and if you don’t try, you won’t succeed at all. I however struggle not to take rejection personally. I know that Chicken Soup just won’t notify you if you’ve been rejected, but still. The deadline is October 31, so I still have time.
Now on to the optional question. This month’s question is: if you could choose one author, living or dead, to be your beta partner, who would it be and why? This is a little hard, as I’m not a book writer, so really I’d have to go with someone to critique my blog. I would however still really like to at least write and hopefully (self-)publish my memoir. For this reason, I’m choosing foster care memoirist Cathy Glass. She wouldn’t really be my beta partner – more my writing mentor. Although I must say I’d love to beta read her memoirs too.
In addition to memoirs, she also writes thrillers under the name of Lisa Stone. I’d really love her to teach me how to write fiction.
How about you? Would you like an author to be your writing mentor or beta partner?
A Multitude of Musings 
I’m not really a writer either so I’d likely just choose our author pal Hilary Grossman.
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Oh that’d be so cool! Thanks so much for commenting.
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I have a list a mile long of authors I would love to work with, but most of them are dead. And those that are still alive would be too far above me for me to provide reciprocal feedback.
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Yes, that goes for me too. I mean, Cathy Glass/Lisa Stone is a published a uthor of many popular (at least in her genre) books and I’m just an ordinary blogger/wannabe-writer. That’s why I said she could be my writing mentor.
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Fear of rejection can be a pretty big fear. I get that. Overcoming that sort of fear is a real victory. So if you do end up writing that story and sending it off to Chicken Soup, you should feel very proud, regardless of whatever may happen after that.
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Thanks so much for encouraging me. I will definitely seriously consider writing the story.
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Any writing during this upside-down year is a win.
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Oh thanks for saying that!
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I’d choose Cathy glass as well! She’s always been so friendly to me when I’ve emailed her. She does have a book on how to become a writer, did you know that? I cant remember the name of it but I’m sure apple books carries it.
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Oh, I had no idea. Will check it out.
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I haven’t read it myself so not sure how good it is but if it’s written by Cathy Glass I think it will be good
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