Thank God for electronic submissions! I’ll soon be updating my online portfolio to reflect some new publications (including book reviews in Mslexia and the Wow! Women on Writing blog, as well as an article in the new literary journal Alors et toi?). I’m proud to announce that I am now officially a member of the National Book Critics Circle, and I look forward to all I will learn from my more experienced peers. In the meantime, I’ll be publishing another book review/author interview right here at Modern Matriarch.
This time we will be joining Laura Zigman and discussing her new novel Piece of Work. Ms. Zigman spent ten years in the publishing industry before releasing her first novel, Animal Husbandry. We’ll see if we can pick her brain for a little insider information.
While doing a little background research for the interview, I came across this tongue and cheek, third person quote on her website:
Writing [freelance] pieces on the side (always makes her really nervous because the minute she accepts the assignment she becomes convinced that she won’t be able to complete it, or that even if she somehow manages to complete it the copy she turns in will be so bad and so embarrassing and so sub-par that the piece will be rejected and word will spread that she is a fraud and an imposter and a fake writer) is really fun.
What a relief to discover I’m not the only who feels that way.
December 9, 2007 at 10:15 am
Oh, yes, every writier I know feels this way at some point or other! It seems that people who write have a natural proclivity for this sort of behavior
(Or is it the act of writing itself that makes us become so insecure??)
December 12, 2007 at 10:53 am
The few deadlines I’ve had to meet in my writing ‘career’ were always like this. I ended up taking a cue from Scotty in Star Trek. If something could be done in a few hours, he’d say it would take four.
Gives you more time to panic!
December 17, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Perhaps it is because writing matters so much to us that we feel this sense of panic when we accept an assignment. We fear that we might not be allowed to continue writing.