"Write something else. The first book usually isn't the best. But you are too blinded. DIVORCE IT...you can trap yourself thinking you belong in a certain genre. Just write what you can write and write the best story you can write--that comes from reading and discovering what you really read and click with."
I don't have to explain things to you...we all know that:
I've done all I can do. I rehashed the whole story to make it what I really wanted it to be, and I'm very proud of myself. I need to leave it at that and keep walking. I can't allow its success or failure in other people's eyes paralyze me. It's just time to shut that door and go to the next one. Gather what I've learned and bring it to my next project starting with the first word.
But I'm not just divorcing the novel here, I'm divorcing the genre and for some reason that's aching me harder than the book itself. Maybe it's because I've jammed my GoogleReader with YA writing blogs. Maybe it's because it's that I don't like finding out I don't belong where I thought I did. Maybe I feel like I'm copping out by turning to a smaller market.
I don't know, but all of my intuition is telling me to take the plunge. Just shut my eyes and trust it. Can I say one more time that it's hard?
The fate of Project #1 is not officially determined until I've exhausted my rejections. Dedicating brain energy to it is over. It is what it is.
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