Thanks so much!! {And please see my response to Kristen in this same post for an explanation about the extreme tardiness of this reply!}

I love it. THANK YOU. {Please see my response to Kristen in this same post for an explanation about the extreme tardiness of this reply!}

Thank you, Kristin! {Please see my response to Kristen – with an ‘e’ – in this same post for an explanation about the extreme tardiness of this reply!}

I think submitting our work is the hardest part. Setting those words free hurts, and is scary, sometimes. I’m so glad you are writing and working on your story. And thank you for the kind words.

Scares the daylights out of me, too. I hope you’ll go for it if (when) LTYM comes to a city near you!

John, I cannot recall if emailed you to say THANK YOU! {Please see my response to Kristen in this same post for an explanation.}

So if I did not, THANKS. I appreciate it.

Thank you, thank you, Amber!

{At the risk of excessive repeating of myself, please see my response to Kristen in this same post for an explanation about the extreme tardiness of this reply!}

Thank you, Elaine. {Please see my response to Kristen in this same post for an explanation about the extreme tardiness of this reply!}

I’d love it if you came to Austin for the show AND would love to see you (after the show, of course… I do not want to know you’re there before. Ha.). Thanks again!

Thank you so much!

Kristen! I’m going to start sounding like a broken record in my comment replies, but please let me apologize for the huge delay in responding. And if you’re getting two responses from me, sorry about that, too. Apparently my comment reply system in my Dashboard ate all of my replies over a couple week period, and I just discovered it. I can’t see any of them on the site or in the Dashboard. So… you may have received it, but I suspect you didn’t.

Thank you for your kind words. I think the rejection and/or failures we face in our lives, our writing, can make us better and stronger. Of course. But they’re more apt to do so if we share our experiences with others. It bonds us as writers, mothers… people. So I’m honored that you relate. Thank you!

I relate deeply to so much of what you’ve written here about writing and rejection. I’m grateful to you for your honesty. I feel like motherhood and writing are alike for me in that I am always comforted when someone I like and admire seems to experience the process of them the same way that I do.