Work, work, and more work. This was a cute way of expressing how you feel when trying to get something done. Hope it is going well. Karen

LOL this is a great write Felix. You express your frustration so well but with ample lashings of humour to keep us smiling and nodding along in agreement. Wishing you the very best with your manuscript dear friend.
Chanti

Yes, this can be quite the ordeal, Felix. But even the nicest of editors can have, sometimes, the rather exasperating attribute of asking the author... "Are you sure this is what you wanted to write? Perhaps you meant to write...? Could it be that, instead, you wanted to say...?" Don't let this frustrate you too much. When all is said and done, you are the author of the book, and they are not, just like Robert Jude said.
I wish you the best of success.
Love&Light*
Alexandra*

Some day I hope to make it big, find a decent publisher


Felix...I wish for you to make that magic hit someday, a homerun...right out of the park...my wish for you.

I can both laugh and cry with this one. Well done.

i understand your frustration Felix, so when i write a poem, i edit it again a few months later and then it is what it is ... i couldn't care less what any other editor thinks how it should be ... if it's not appreciated or "good enough," so be it ...

Excellent write and tells it like it is. Yes we all want to have a decent publisher.

Kinda makes you wonder why the H we do this? Well told, Felix, keep writing for the one days!
Monette

Wow... YOu guys are OPening my eyezzzzzzz W*i*D*E...Thanks! That way I don't have my HOPe UP,UP, and UP..and knowing I could get knOcked down.. quickly. By the way........That suckssssssssssss... knowing EVErything you believe in, can be thrown out w/ yesterdays leftovers, unless it's kept frozen for a better publish/etc... Good luck U 2... Rejections slips to cover walls.. YUk, that thought- means alot of work........... HuGs,Sheee

Very true, very decent and poignant write Felix. What editors want today is violence, sex, more violence and more sex, and the steamier the sex and the more violent the violnce, the more they will publish it. I have sooooooo many rejection slips, I could wallpaper my entire house with them. Sleepless night huh. I've been there, and i am not saying how many sheets of paper I balled up and threw away cause I made mistake after mistake. Ohhhhh the occupational hazards of being a writer. But one day, I will be rich and famous (yeah right). I really like this one Felix, thnx for sharing this with us. May the Lord Jesus bless you and yours, and be with you always, and at your sdie constantly. With much love in my heart, joy to the world, peace on earth, & ((((((((((MANY SISTERLY HUGGGGSSSS)))))))))), your little sister, Barbie

"If I have to be this girl in me, Then I may as well be."

Most of the time editors don't have a clue about art just intrested in making a fast buck...best of luck boppa.

Paul;-]

Great write. Good luck to you. This is when you should push the hardest. This is the rocky road that is hard to traverse and I have the utmost respect for you, Felix, to have come this far! My God, what an accomplishment and wise words from Elizabeth...

Good luck :) great poem :)

And you inspired me to write a book??

With this kinda mercy???

Ha....goodluck buddy!!

Nice write on a blue day...okay!!

Love Tinka

You have the wrong publisher.
Editors come and go...are paid very litte so have NO sense of humor, and you have to watch they don't put their own stamp on your work.
Believe in yourself and your work...screw everything else.
However, I don't know how to get around the self-editing. (Keep smiling)

Elizabeth

keep trying :)
and best of luck to you......