Just Pulled the Trigger

So … what I just discovered is, if you are a first-time author and self-publishing on the Internet, it is an extremely terrifying experience to hit the “publish” button. All manner of scary, horrifying thoughts run through your mind in that instant. Things like:  ‘Oh my God, what have I just done?’ and ‘What if everything I’ve just published is complete and total crap!’ and ‘Fat lot of nerve I have calling myself a writer! Who the heck am I kidding?’ 

But even with all those disturbing thoughts chasing me down like rabid dogs, I hit the button anyway. I pulled the trigger. Good or bad, for better or worse, in typos and run-on sentences … I hit the “publish” button. And now I wait for the next 12 hours until my precious baby will be finally be available for purchase on the Amazon website. The next agonizingly slow, torturously painful 12 hours.

Having never given birth myself, I can’t help but wonder which is worse….