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Hamilton is DONE!!!
If you have ever seen the Disney remake of Rapunzel, then you will know the scene where she's full of joy and happiness, celebrating her escape. Then the next scene, she's crippled with anxiety and doubt, wanting to return to the castle she was held prisoner in? One minute she swinging from a tree by her hair, the next, she wallowing in her sadness, sitting on a rock.
Well, that is me with this book. I thought it was the greatest book I'd ever written, and then suddenly the worst. I loved Hamilton from the beginning, wanting to bring him a really great story, and then watched it nosedive into the worst story I've ever written.
I heard all authors feel this way throughout the writing process, but whew, I have never felt it so hard. Where am I now? I'm not swinging from the tree by my hair or sitting on the rock. Perhaps, I'm on the road to the inn, believing I still have a fighting chance of it all working out in the end.
That being said, it's done! Off to my wonderful editor that still believes in me after being days past my deadline, my eyeballs bleeding, and hoping I didn't create 125K words of redundant nonsense.
Well, that is me with this book. I thought it was the greatest book I'd ever written, and then suddenly the worst. I loved Hamilton from the beginning, wanting to bring him a really great story, and then watched it nosedive into the worst story I've ever written.
I heard all authors feel this way throughout the writing process, but whew, I have never felt it so hard. Where am I now? I'm not swinging from the tree by my hair or sitting on the rock. Perhaps, I'm on the road to the inn, believing I still have a fighting chance of it all working out in the end.
That being said, it's done! Off to my wonderful editor that still believes in me after being days past my deadline, my eyeballs bleeding, and hoping I didn't create 125K words of redundant nonsense.
