Writer's Notebook: The Waiting Game

I started pub­lish­ing way before email and the Inter­net, and the thing I hated most was wait­ing. Like wait­ing to hear about a story or man­u­script I'd sub­mit­ted. I'd obses­sively check my cal­en­dar and count days, weeks, months. I kept writing, kept reading books about writing, and kept all kinds of cal­en­dars which I checked when­ever I wasn't busy. Hell, I checked them when I was busy, and they started to look as crowded as the Peri­odic Table.



I thought getting published would end...