Submitted my new children’s book to agents this morning. Salespeople are taught that each no is a step closer to yes. That may be true, but no matter how they love their product they really are not selling their own. It may only be five pages and 1393 words long, but it came from inside and was massaged for months. Far too often a writer does not get a no, they get ignored. Imagine finally coxing your beloved child up onto the stage for their little part only to have the audience not even acknowledge they are there. It is much easier to accept a tepid reception. It is very uncommon, but does happen that an agent replies only to be insulting. That of course is worse. Bad enough to have your child ignored without someone making the point of saying there are stupid and by the way you are ugly. It happens to us all that we have a dreadful day, then receive bad service and we snap at someone. That is wrong but human. But can you imagine going out of your way to be unkind? There is never
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When I was a child I had a bad case of David pay attention! and a case of The class is in here not out the window. I made it through school alright for the most part because I would be interested in the concept even if not in the details. I could extrapolate enough to pass tests and the teachers did not always hound me to actually turn in the work. I was an adult before attention deficient disorder became a thing. Just before retirement age I was diagnosed with the condition. Happily I was able to find ways jobs that I could fake it enough to seem like I was paying attention to the job. Sometimes I found something in the job I could hyperfocus on thus being highly productive. Soldiering and teaching in elementary school worked pretty well for me since no two moments tended to be the same. The challenge of dealing with people, yes children count as people, and the focus changed all day long. I bring this all up as a fiction writer since I am avoiding working on something I do no
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Doing a writers bio So, this is my second blog post on this site. It is about writing as well. Today’s journey into writing is the need for posting author bio information. UGH! Although I love to tell stories, get me started you will hear endless stories from my life, reporting objectively in the third person stumps me completely. Here are some of my attempts. David Dabling was born after Charles Dickens but substantially before this afternoon. Although Charles Dickens is considered one of the great talents in English literature writing, David never will be. The story of how David once climbed halfway up a rock cliff has nothing to do with the bio. However, that story is much more interesting. By default, which means the rest of this bio will be much less interesting . . . Giving up on that one. Throughout his life David Dabling has wanted to be a writer. There have been detractors who say he never will be. Despite their negativity and lack of support so far, they are correct.
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Halloween for Would be Writers Since we have just passed the trick or treat fest, I will apply it to being a writer. Halloween a time for dressing up as a terrifying ghoul, a time for cowering from our primordial fears, a time for putting on a face that is not our own. You know being a writer in search of representation. At least for me being a writer is from a personality that does a great deal of its living on the inside. An actor is a huge ego that wants to strut in front of you proclaiming look at me and be awestruck, I have become a different person. A writer is if anything a larger ego saying I and I alone have created this entire universe to astonish you, I’ll just leave it here for your amazement and be someplace out of site while you discover it. I have been at times in my life: · A teacher, I understand and will lovingly lift you to my understanding. · A soldier, Listen up, its my way or the highway! And while you are on the highway line it with r