A Therapist and a Bill Collector
Editing an anthology has left me feeling like a therapist and a bill collector. When I wrote my part, I thought I was done but now, after receiving almost all of the submissions I was expecting, I realized I have so much more to write. I had no idea the project would impact so many people the way it has or that I would find out all the things that I have about my writer-friends. For them to be so fabulous after all they have experienced makes me respect them that much more. I feel like a bill collector because there are still a few more submissions that have been promised that I have yet to receive. I know that everyone has deadlines for much bigger projects, but its time to hound people for their 4000 words now, and I hate that. For some of them, its because they do have a very busy schedule, for others, the delay is because is because I asked them to write about a hard subject that they are not ready to face. Creative non-fiction is like that. ...