Missed last month's IWSG post. Just a quick check in today to make sure I don't fall off the list. 😁
In case you didn't notice from the mess my blog is in, or if you didn't get the frantic email from me a couple of weeks ago, I've been having some email issues. Life has been a bit crazy. It's mostly sorted out now, but I'm having to fix the blog and reload old pictures and such bit by bit. It's a headache, but I'll get it back together eventually.
August Question - As a writer/author what is something you regret? Or something that you wish you'd done differently in your writing process?
Regrets... I have a few...
Oh wait, you mean writing-related?
The most obvious one is that I didn't start earlier. I mean, I've been writing my whole life, but I didn't start taking it seriously until I was in my mid-thirties. I published my first novel at 35. The self-publishing craze and Kindle Direct Publishing started about 5 years before that. If I had jumped on the bandwagon earlier, especially pre-kids when I had more time and energy, who knows where I would have ended up? Or maybe if I had tried harder to get my work traditionally published in my twenties?
In all honesty I try not to have regrets, or at least focus on them. What will be will be. I can't say everything happens for a reason, but I certainly can't change the past. Better to use my choices to affect the future.
Anyway.
Hope everyone is having a great summer! See in you in the funny pages.
Hugs & Kisses,
-CDGK
11 comments:
I'm sorry you've been having email and blog issues. I'm glad you got them sorted out. I think publishing your first book at 35 is fine. I didn't even start writing until my 40's. And you want to be sure your stories are ready before you publish them.
Sorry about the email issues.
I didn't start until my mid-forties so you were ahead of me.
I started a lot later than you. Best we not let our regrets cloud our accomplishments.
Sending cheese to carry you through the rest of the restoring! I feel your pain. Been there.
You know, I think you did it right. Personally. Many people jump in before they're ready, before they've mastered enough of the art. There's something to be said for someone who has a firm grasp on their writing before ever indulging in the shark tank. (For lack of a better term.)
Ha ha...we started our posts close to the same way. It's good to "see" you again, old friend. Sorry you're having so many issues with the blog--was it hacked? I suspect many of us have similar regrets...either not starting earlier, or not taking it seriously earlier. Oh, to have a time machine!
I'm sorry that you've been having technology issues, CD! They are so frustrating. Glad you got your post up today. We never want to lose our place on the list. 😂 All the best!
Tech. It's so wonderful, until it isn't. I'm like you--wish I'd taken my writing more seriously when I was younger. OTOH, I spent a lot of years getting multiple degrees, learning to write ghastly academic prose, then unlearning that when I started writing for real.
Ugh email issues. No fun.
I didn't start writing seriously until my thirties either and hey, you published a couple of years before me so that's a win. Getting some life experience under our wings makes for better stories and more interesting characters.
The beauty of the writing world is that we can start at any age, but it's hard not to wonder sometimes what might have been. I feel like I'm always on the tail end of things that happened when I wasn't involved yet.
Even the youngest author must regret not starting early. That is inevitable for a writer, I think. Being a writer itself was an inevitability. The early bird catches the worm but the second mice gets the cheese, right? A writer with wisdom does have it's own advantages than a writer with very little too.
I didn't start till my late 40s, so you're way ahead of me. And you have a healthy attitude toward regrets. We can't change the past, so let's keep moving forward.
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