T'was the Night Before Publication... by Liz Carter
Twas the Night Before Publication… …and all through the room, all my thoughts they were stirring and my mind steeped in Doom. Anyone relate? As it really is the night (well, the day) before publication for me, I thought I’d ponder a little on how bringing our books to birth can be such a starkly vulnerable time for us. You’ve worked hard for months (or perhaps years), you’ve poured every inch of yourselves into these pages, words have gushed forth and then you’ve crafted and edited and killed darlings and then gone back to the start all over again, perfecting and tweaking and looking up better synonyms on that online thesaurus (come on, admit it, you do that, right?) You have written a book. You have achieved something great, but now is the time your book goes live to the world, and what if… what if the world hates it? What if the world laughs at you, or sees that you are, after all, just a fraud who pretends she can write? What if they write one-star reviews ? Have you ever wri...