I'm to submit fifteen to twenty pages of my work in progress by 3 PM on Friday, June 1st. I have most of it done already, but it needs major overhaul before it's ready for people's eyes. That's the scariest part of the MFA program for me, the idea that people actually have to, you know, look at my work. It makes me feel naked.
An editor friend offered to look at some of my work, but I demurred, mainly because we work together. It's even more uncomfortable if you work with someone and they read you work and hate it. Then they have to be nice about their hatred since you see them often. And then I become the idiot who doesn't know how bad she writes.
Well, nosiree.
It's too awkward. I wouldn't want to put that kind of pressure on anyone. I know about the pity reads they provide, as I've done a few myself (I won't even mention the ones I did for agents who promised to read their friends of friends' work--Yep, that detailed yet nice rejection came from me!).
So if any of my editor friends are reading this--You are too cool to abuse, so I vow to never to come up to you and ask you to read my work. You have plenty of bad reading as it is, so why would I do that to you?
Agents are another story.
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