HIT ME- PLEASE

  This part of the monthy blog hop/therapy session known as the Insecure Writers Support Group, founded by the one and only,  Alex J. Cavanaugh. If you're a writer, insecure, or just supportive of writers—insecure or not—please join us. It happens the first Wednesday of each month. I encourage everyone to visit at least a dozen new blogs and leave a comment. Your words will be appreciated.

December's Optional Question: As you look back on 2017, with all its successes/failures, if you could backtrack, what would you do differently? 

The answer to this question is easy...

I’d hire a “hit” man...

Not to take someone out...

To keep someone in...

Me, specifically!

In my office...

In my chair...

And hit me every time my mind wondered...

Or checked emails or Facebook...

Or decided to clean...

Or let Netflix lure me to la la land...

Rather than focus on my manuscript.

Actually, I’m a lot farther along than last year...

But not far enough!

To figure out what's holding me from pushing forward...
I had to look backward...

When I started writing my first manuscript...

There was no such thing as self-publishing...

Oh, there were a few oddballs out there who did…

But nothing compared to like today’s influx...

In fact...

If any writer dared to self-pub...

Other writers would snicker...

"Must not be good if she can't snare an agent."

And me? I was ignorantly happy…

Believing that all I had to do was write...

And all the mundane things of getting published…

Would be left up to an agent, editor, and publisher.

When self-publishing became the newest craze…

I lifted up my haughty chin and sneered…

“Me? Self-pub? Never!”

Well, here I am...

More than a decade later...

(though I have written 3 other manuscripts)

With my haughty chin down...

And my humble pie up...

Ready to self-pub.

But lord the process is scary...

It's an emotional roller coaster...
Blindly flying around... 
All the downturns, upturns and curves...  
Ofthe newest marketing and social media skills.
What about you?

Are you self-pub'd?

What did your process feel like? 

Or did you find your way to traditional publishing? 

Always,

Em-Musing

P.S.

From my part of the world to yours - may your holidays be blessed and joyous! See you next year.