Hatrack River Writers Workshop: Rollercoaster

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Posted by Josh Leone (Member # 2365) on :

I moved back to Rochester, NY recently and managed to get some paying gigs with the local paper. It's a Gannett publication called Insider. UP!

The publisher of my children's book and I have come to a parting of ways. My picture book will not be published after all. DOWN!

I just finished work on the final page of a 300 page speculative fiction novel and it turned out pretty good if I do say so myself. UP!

An editor of a national magazine I work for sent me an e-mail saying they have decided the article I spent a month researching and writing is no longer needed because they've decided to go "an alternate route." DOWN!

I just managed to get past the last obsticle to getting an interview I've been trying at for about a year. It's an interview that is an almost guaranteed sale to any one of several magazines I know of, maybe more than one. UP!

'scuse me - I have to go find a garbage can now. BLARRRGGGGG!
CAN WE GO AGAIN!

Josh Leone

[This message has been edited by Josh Leone (edited March 24, 2005).]

Posted by Christine (Member # 1646) on :

LOL

That sounds an awful lot like....life. Congrats on finishing your novel and getting your interview and best of luck with all of it.

Posted by HSO (Member # 2056) on :

That's some rollercoaster ride...

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Posted by Keeley (Member # 2088) on :

Wow. I got dizzy just reading your post.

Hooray for the good news and condolences for the bad. Hope life continues to bring you good things.

Posted by goatboy (Member # 2062) on :

At least it ends on a high note.

Posted by djvdakota (Member # 2002) on :

You call BLAARRRGGG!! a high note?

Wow, goatboy. That's a bit, hmm, sick?

Anway, keep riding Josh.

Posted by Kolona (Member # 1438) on :

As long as you're enjoying the ride, Josh. Congrats!

Posted by Josh Leone (Member # 2365) on :

I think maybe Goat was thinking more of the "CAN WE GO AGAIN" PART.

Whenever I describe an average month for me to people, especially if they have a straight job kind of life, the first thing they usually say is, “I don’t know why you do it.”

The answer is simple. The scenario I described above may seem pretty evenly balanced between good and bad stuff. But that’s not the case. Every success I have with my writing is worth five failures. Every dollar I get from a publication buying my work is worth any ten dollars I’ve ever gotten from the straight jobs I’ve had. So if you look at the rollercoaster using that kind of math, you can see I’m not lamenting anything.

Josh Leone
www.JoshLeone.com

Posted by Minister (Member # 2213) on :

It actually does sound like fun! Keep us posted.

Posted by goatboy (Member # 2062) on :

As long as you can walk away saying "let's go again", it's all good.