Note: This post is by Gemma Hawdon. Gemma lives in Melbourne, Australia. She writes articles, guest posts and short stories and has just completed a MG children’s fantasy book. She also writes a blog, Top Of The Slush Pile, which documents the adventures of writing a book and trying to get published. T: @gemmaleehawdon
We’re told writing a book is the easy part. ‘Pah!! Wait til you try and publish it!’ they warn us.
And then, after months or years of carefully honing our precious stories we emerge from hibernation, with arthritic fingers and hunched backs, and realise we’ve reached that stage. It’s judgment time…
We spend endless hours waiting for agents and editors to get back to us. Sometimes it can take weeks, months even. In the meantime, we have to continue our lives, our daily duties, paid jobs, all the while trying to remain down-to-earth, yet secretly hoping… hoping.
I’m currently slap bang in the middle of this process and I’ve learned you have to hold strong, keep real and avoid the following behaviours at all cost.
