{"id":484,"date":"2023-05-25T13:27:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T19:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danniemarsden.com\/?p=484"},"modified":"2023-05-25T14:52:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T20:52:26","slug":"introduce-me-so-i-can-be-published-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danniemarsden.com\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"Introduce me, so I can be published too!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 People are always shocked to discover I’m a writer, usually asking for an introduction to my publisher so they can get their unpublished manuscripts published or if I’m rolling around in mountains of money. Little do they know the truth: becoming a successful author takes more than just writing!<\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Alas, most people are never published these days. Instead, many have to find contentment with writing as a hobby and pour their soul into stories that will never see the light of day. Since publishing houses no longer accept queries from unknown writers, you need to be proactive and research what is needed to get your work noticed by those in charge of acquisitions. If you think that’s all it takes to succeed, then you’re mistaken\u2014few ever reach Stephen King status.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Writing helps us look at painful situations and difficult truths straight in the eye instead of turning our backs on them like we usually do.<\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Writing forces us to confront pain instead of running from it. It also underscores truth, which makes the falseness stand out.<\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0We tend to glamorize hurt (or chaos) in our day-to-day lives–write about it instead of living it! This can help us exorcise demons that lurk beneath everyday problems.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Writing is about finding joy in the craft.<\/div>\n
\u00a0Initially, Luce didn’t want to commit suicide; she just wanted to get past the pain of a lost relationship and the feeling of failure to save a life. Rayne wanted to escape an abusive father and the loss of her love in the 1800s. While I have never had to deal with failing to save a life or having an abusive father (nor live in the 1800s), I did go through thoughts of suicide to deal with pain and the want and need to move past a point in my life. I did have to deal with lost relationships. Haven’t we all,<\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0My experiences which I translated to some of my characters, did turn into a source of happiness, in that I found writing therapeutic; I found joy in picking up the pen and leading my “voices” to happy ever after.<\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I found pleasure in developing my characters. If you don’t find joy and happiness or a sense of pride in what you write, whether it is ever published or not, chances are you are doing it for the wrong reasons.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Writing isn’t about money or fame; it’s about finding joy in the craft. Sure, getting published and selling books should be a bonus, but above all else, remember why you picked up the pen in the first place\u2014because it brings you happiness, pure and simple. I started writing to work out things in my head. Mental puzzles that had no answers outside of my own mind, but I couldn’t talk about them with anyone else. Talking was too\u2026 messy and hard, so I turned to the pen as therapy. In time, those mental stories became conversations with friends. Then they became books\u2014like most writers’ dreams do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[19,17,18,20,11],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-1800s","tag-luce","tag-rayne","tag-suicide","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danniemarsden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danniemarsden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danniemarsden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danniemarsden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danniemarsden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danniemarsden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/danniemarsden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danniemarsden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danniemarsden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danniemarsden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danniemarsden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}