Posted by fogmama on January 2, 2004, at 18:22:17
In reply to Re: When are meds justified? emotional flatness » fogmama, posted by antigua on December 31, 2003, at 10:33:42
> Start a zine? Been there, too. I have the whole magazine written and laid out but I couldn't ever take the next step to actually print & publish it. My fears have stopped me from realizing my dreams.
> antiguaAntigua,
Happy new year to you! Thanks again for sharing with me your feelings ... I have sooooooo been there.
With the only self-publishing project I've ever completed, I ended up getting help, or it would never have gotten done. I had let myself get stuck on the cover being "perfect", and I was starting to paralyze, but my husband helped me over that hump.
The book got printed, went out to contributors, and everyone loved it so much, no one complained a bit about the time it had taken. If only they'd known it almost didn't happen at all! That was my own secret shame. The next one, I refused his help, and that was that - it is also completed, but sits in a drawer, unpublished, uncirculated, and shaming me to this day. Ugh. I can tell you that the first experience was much more positive in the end than the second one - the book is on my bookshelf instead of in embryonic form in a drawer! So if there is anyone you trust, who can help you get "over the hump" in whatever way, if I can offer any experience, I'd encourage you to talk to him or her and try to get your work out there, however "late" you might feel it is.
Others may not perceive it as "late" at all - in fact they probably won't even be aware of your struggle - and I can assure you they will value your writing and the spirit you have to share.
Well, I am hoping for better things this year, for both of us.
When my son grows up, I want him to know me as someone who did things, not just dreamed about them.
fm
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