The open book: what writers don’t tell writers about writing (part 2)
A few years ago, I wrote a blog post for the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) on professional envy.
I made two embarrassing errors:
~ I called it jealousy, when I should have called it envy. Jealousy is when you fear someone covets what you already have. Envy is when you covet what others have.
~ I was trying, still, to be a bit cutesy about the whole thing. I’d never had a straight conversation with anyone about envy, and I was, frankly, nervous. I held back a bit.
Revisiting it, though, the gist of it holds true. Envy is a big, ugly secret. But it’s a normal part of a writing career. I encourage you to take a look at where I started the conversation, then come back to these addenda — the subtext and the even bigger, uglier, normal bits I’m going to blab.
Bleed? Blab.
Anyway, here’s the original post:
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Publishing is a zero sum game, sorta.
Writing is infinite. But the business is…mostly…not.
I know. I’m contradicting what I said in Part Two of my SFWA post. But I am positing…
