For me, the writing is complete when it's a book because at that point, it is literally out of my hands.
Yes, exactly. I want it out of my hands, and in the hands of others. It's sort of the difference between hitting in a batting cage, and hitting on the field. Once the ball is gone, the ball is gone, but the first is just practice. The second is a real game.
Or, as a character playing an out-of-work actor in one of my favorite movies once said, "I'm tired of practicing my expressions in front of the mirror."
I have to believe that the stories I'm telling are stories that will move people.
What I want is the chance to get mine out there so I can see if they are.
I want to let them go. But I can't get anyone to catch them.
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Date: 2008-05-14 02:19 am (UTC)Yes, exactly. I want it out of my hands, and in the hands of others. It's sort of the difference between hitting in a batting cage, and hitting on the field. Once the ball is gone, the ball is gone, but the first is just practice. The second is a real game.
Or, as a character playing an out-of-work actor in one of my favorite movies once said, "I'm tired of practicing my expressions in front of the mirror."
I have to believe that the stories I'm telling are stories that will move people.
What I want is the chance to get mine out there so I can see if they are.
I want to let them go. But I can't get anyone to catch them.