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#60008 - 11/19/04 12:44 PM
I really stepped in it this time!
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Registered: 09/03/04
Posts: 2538
Loc: North Carolina
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Okay, You all know that I'm a newbie to writing. I've had a total of 1 essay published in actual print. I have decided that this qualifies me to call myself a writer. My 14 year old is apparently very proud of this and told his new girlfriend's parents that his Mom is a writer.
Well.... It turns out that her Mom is also a writer, freelance, I'm assuming for magazines as I've not yet met her. And get this, her Dad is a writer too, even teaches a writing class at none other than Duke University.
I mean really...What are the chances of this happening? Well, obviously to me, very good but honestly, now I feel like a complete fool!
It wouldn't be so bad but he has told me that her mother has invited me to join one of her book clubs. I'm guessing that would neccessitate the actual meeting with her and talking to her about my own paltry little writing career. (I'm so embarrassed)
It took me years to get to this point, where I am finally admitting to the world that I have this disease, called writing.
In fact it was you wonderful women that helped me to do that. So now, I need your help again, GET ME OUT OF THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, you are right, I got myself into it. (And the boy will be punished severely) But..... Does anyone have any suggestions? Or possibly some witty quotes that I can memorize to make myself appear more intelligent and writerly? Can I toss your names around to show that I have some friends in "the" business? Or should I just come clean and say, haha I was only kidding, I'm not really a writer at all, I just play one on television?
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#60011 - 11/19/04 01:10 PM
Re: I really stepped in it this time!
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Registered: 11/20/02
Posts: 317
Loc: Towson
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You know, in an earlier post today, I mentioned that I'd been writing....well.....forever. Writing seems to me to be not a destination but a journey. It is more of a calling than an occupation, more art than "skill set". You know what I mean. Some of the most beautiful stuff I've ever read has never been published so does that make the person any less a writer? I don't think so. You just keep doing what you are doing and yes, go to lunch or dinner or book club and network like crazy. You never know what may come of it...don't ever sell yourself short.
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#60013 - 11/19/04 01:28 PM
Re: I really stepped in it this time!
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Registered: 07/02/03
Posts: 12025
Loc: Alabama
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You write. You are a writer. Period! You do NOT have to be published to be a writer. I have a friend who writes some of the most beautiful stories I've ever read but she refuses to submit them. Says she writes because it completes her.
You are also a woman. Does this mean that you are half a woman? Not as good as other women? Heck no! You are a COMPLETE woman.
You are a Mother. Does this mean that you are not quite as good as other Mother's? I think NOT!
You are .... see where I'm going here hon? You are whatever you believe yourself to be. You write, therefore you are a writer.
Unless this woman is Mary Higgins Clark or Danielle Steel, then I wouldn't give it a second thought. Don't you think she had to start somewhere too? And by the way, for all you know, she may be the WORST writer you've ever read...eh?
This connection sounds as though it was a blessing, a gift to you. Why not accept it and see where it takes you? And when someone says, "So...you're a writer" you answer, "Oh yes, I am! I love to write, don't you?"
If all of this fails, then wash your son's stuff in with something pink. He'll learn.
JJ
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