{"id":52,"date":"2013-06-24T06:22:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T06:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2014-01-22T11:06:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T11:06:51","slug":"writing-for-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/writing-for-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing for Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WorkingOnBook\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHow\u2019s the book? How far along are you with your book?\u201d friends and relatives ask.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m still working on it,\u201d I say, embarrassed. It takes a long time to write a book. Most of the hours in each day, every day of the week, I write. Standing over the kitchen counter, sitting at the dining room table with the dog at my feet, on the computer with the dog on my lap, with a clipboard on my lap as I drive, in bed, in waiting areas of offices and on the deck by the pond as I watch a small green heron, I write my book. Two and a half years ago I hoped with all my heart that my daughter would live. Now I spend all my energy and wishes on my book.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou should check out Literary Marketplace online,\u201d say friends. \u201cYou need to get an agent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swenson Book Development sends an email with this week\u2019s post about various types of editors.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow long have you been writing this book now \u2013 two years?\u201d my mother asks.<\/p>\n

It is a sweet time as I read the book over \u201conce more\u201d after the latest changes, and then \u201conce more\u201d again.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt won\u2019t be forever,\u201d I say. \u201cBesides, I don\u2019t know what\u2019s next in my life yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

But really, I\u2019m afraid to bring my book to an agent or editor. It\u2019s like going to the doctor or dentist. I\u2019m scared something major will be found to be wrong. My manuscript might be eradicated or ripped to shreds. It could be painful.<\/p>\n

So I nurse the book a little longer, memorize its features, and love it like it\u2019s a daughter with cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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