Yesterday at work (I'm a part time bookseller at The King's English) I "pulled" our YA section. In other words, I loaded up a bunch of books that haven't sold well to ship back to the publisher to get a credit against our balance.
It's tedious work under the best of circumstances, but for a writer, it's a particularly disheartening job. Every time I took another book off the shelf, I thought to myself, "This represents months, if not years, of work for an author who cared enough about a story to write it. And poof! Here it goes up in smoke after a couple of months of sitting on a shelf."
I KNOW! SO DEPRESSING!
What the experience did do for me, however, was to remind me that writing a book should be a labor of love . . . for you. There's very little you can control after you finish your book, so you ought to enjoy the journey while you're writing it.
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