Last night, I attended a dinner party with a bunch of my husband’s colleagues. Inevitably, at some point someone asked me politely what it is I’m doing these days. Last year, I felt comfortable telling people I had an editing business. To me, that was a solid identity. This year as a full-time writer, I found myself almost making excuses for my job because I haven’t produced a solid product…yet. Because there’s been so much fighting of traditional versus self-publishing, I prepared myself to defend my choice when I said I was self-publishing a book soon. What surprised me was that all the insecurities were my own, perhaps reflecting that attitudes amongst general readers are changing. Yes, there are naysayers of self-publishing. However, for…
Jenn Falls – My Writing Journey
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Once again, I realized that it’s been a while since I’ve updated my writing journey. I’d love to tell you that in that amount of time, I wrote two books, but alas – I’m not that prolific. However, I have been contemplating what it takes to be a writer, what I need to accomplish in order to justify taking time off working in order to write, and how I need to kick into gear. One of my decisions is that I need to kill the idea of writing my one little darling project and start working on multiple projects. My decision gets wrapped up in my obsession about the publishing world. I could write an entire blog post on the woes of publishing.…
I’ve been posting about my experience at the James River Writers Conference in Richmond, VA this past weekend. You can tell how rich and full of things to do it is by the fact that it keeps giving me fodder for my blog. However, this time I thought I would get a little more personal. I found out ahead of time that I would be pitching one-on-one with a literary agent. So I thought I would write a little about the experience. Having never pitched before and never really having a manuscript that I felt like I could pitch in the first place, I was a floundering, nervous fish out of water. I was extremely fortunate to get a literary agent that represented authors…
Falls Into Writing 