Daily, I'm polishing almost three complete chapters of my almost there 30 chapter manuscript. I'm constantly streamlining and re-visioning, even creating Author's Notes, 30 pages at a time, so I'll be ready for launch on the 31st of this month. This isn't the first time I've tried to capture and clearly communicate what's on my mind in a tome of collective words. This is, however, the first time that I'm patient, honest, open, humble, and reading my story out loud repetitively.
You've gotta love a story to read it over and over. Especially, if it's lacking as a written piece of art. Which got me to thinking; for those who are top-heavy creatives and you're willing and able to set quotas, goals, or call them steps (and fulfill them in a healthy manner) wouldn't the goal of sharing your work get accomplished in a quicker, feed the machine, type of way if you humble yourself? If you re-read your work, not after being away from it for a period of time, but after you've found the bliss of it; wouldn't your passion and love for it become discerned and detached? If you seriously took the advice that touched your soul and daily applied it to your work, wouldn't you be in a position to attract those Beta Readers who knows your work and you? Yeah, you'd become a better author. A prolific author. My feeling, sniff sniff, is authors get a bad wrap. Not every name on a published book is an author. We authors communicate a message while conveying an idea. Storytellers do that- tell stories thing. Authors are the elite craftsmen of this field of word slaying in the crystallized form. They communicate clearly and motivate with a good message wrapped up in one. This means the suck-it-up-Buttercup attitude that many authors have is often misunderstood. I believe that you become an author when you gain the author's ability to release and release and release; to feed the machine, again. Knowing that you are an author and not a storyteller will give you the compassion needed to get up everyday and count (therefore) slay the words. Knowing you are an author and not a storyteller will allow you to be fed by what you produce even if it doesn't see the light of professional bookstore day. Lastly, knowing you are an author and not a storyteller will put a pen in your hand & fingers on the keyboard, an ear for rhythm which comes from trial and error, and the humility to slowly walk down and gather readers who will follow you instead of a few book titles. Yeah, I'm an author, who knows many storytellers. That is what keep the publication world going round. A world I just love. Thanks for Listening! Sabrina Louise Andielle
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