I'm SO proud of you for going on (and completing!) this journey! You have learned so many valuable things that you will carry with you through the rest of your writing journey 🫶🏼
Thank you so much Janne!! I missed this comment until now. I really appreciate your kind words, and I hope that I can continue to learn and grow--and share those lessons with others. Thank you for your ongoing support!
I think you're really underselling the mindset wins - or maybe they're difficult to see or hold on to in the swamp of life shit that bubbled up while you were doing thing. I know you're feeling disheartened now, but I will always feel like this was a heroic win for you in terms of reclaiming agency and breaking out of the hopelessness you were feeling about the publishing industry.
This whole endeavour was, in my incredibly unhumble opinion, a huge leap for you and I'm so fricken proud.
I'm trying not to get too trite here lol, but you had to fight through a lot of mental barriers to get here and that's always the win.
Also, YES to reclaiming the title. That, for me, is so symbolic of what this project was (to me, as an outsider looking in). Returning scenes. Reverting to the title. Sharing your work with the world, gatekeepers be damned. Even just choosing to come back to this story, determined to get justice for it. Ugh. I'm devolving here.
You didn't accomplish what you set out to. I'll allow that. But this was absolutely a net win for you as a writer and for Sophie and Mason's story.
🥰 thank you! I don’t regret this at all. I learned so much, and reflecting on the whole experience has helped me see where I can improve and where things are outside of my control…but it has made me doubt my own desire to self-publish, which is why I think I have to take some kind of action regarding my social media account.
I'm SO proud of you for going on (and completing!) this journey! You have learned so many valuable things that you will carry with you through the rest of your writing journey 🫶🏼
Thank you so much Janne!! I missed this comment until now. I really appreciate your kind words, and I hope that I can continue to learn and grow--and share those lessons with others. Thank you for your ongoing support!
I think you're really underselling the mindset wins - or maybe they're difficult to see or hold on to in the swamp of life shit that bubbled up while you were doing thing. I know you're feeling disheartened now, but I will always feel like this was a heroic win for you in terms of reclaiming agency and breaking out of the hopelessness you were feeling about the publishing industry.
This whole endeavour was, in my incredibly unhumble opinion, a huge leap for you and I'm so fricken proud.
I'm trying not to get too trite here lol, but you had to fight through a lot of mental barriers to get here and that's always the win.
Also, YES to reclaiming the title. That, for me, is so symbolic of what this project was (to me, as an outsider looking in). Returning scenes. Reverting to the title. Sharing your work with the world, gatekeepers be damned. Even just choosing to come back to this story, determined to get justice for it. Ugh. I'm devolving here.
You didn't accomplish what you set out to. I'll allow that. But this was absolutely a net win for you as a writer and for Sophie and Mason's story.
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🥰 thank you! I don’t regret this at all. I learned so much, and reflecting on the whole experience has helped me see where I can improve and where things are outside of my control…but it has made me doubt my own desire to self-publish, which is why I think I have to take some kind of action regarding my social media account.
(Also, I can't edit comments apparently so I really shouldn't have gone back to look for typos *after* posting it.)