My Crazy Corner

It's all in the attitude.

Hi Apryl! Thanks so much for hosting me today. 

I was watching Restaurant: Impossible last week showcasing a brazen woman with a snarky tongue whose restaurant was tanking because of her attitude.

When a customer complained, she's let 'em know why they were wrong. "The customer's not always right," she quipped.

She alienated her customers to the point of nearly losing her business.

It got me thinking about writers. (Just like everything does, LOL!)

Lots (the majority I'd say) of writers are positive, supportive, glass-is-half-full kind of people. Thank goodness!

Considering the hurdles to get published, along with all the negative stuff out there, it's refreshing and encouraging to see writers helping each other with a smile.

Confession: Without the help of my positive, never-give-up-no-matter-what, so-you-lost-this-time-but-could-win-next-time, cheerleading writer pals, I would've quit a long time ago.

I wonder: What would things be like if the writing community were chock full of mean, nit-picky, grind-you-under-their-heel types? Just like that woman alienated her customers, a negative community would snuff out potential superstars in minutes.

How horrible would that be??? Countless friends (who now have agents and pubbing deals, yay!!), may have given up. And their writing is FAB! What a loss it would be for the world to never see their work!

That's why I can't express my thanks enough for the awesome, talented, intelligent, caring, and pull-you-back-from-the-ledge-as-many-times-as-you-need writers I've met along the way.

Without them, I would not be getting pubbed. My short story CITY OF LIGHTS AND STONE is a month from release in the DAY OF DEMONS Anthology by Anachron Press and my YA Dystopian ENDURE will be published by Kae Wilson Press (to be released in 2013).

In the meantime, you can check out my blog, Diamond—Lucid Dreamer, where I tackle writerly mental health questions on Mental Health Monday, share writer tips on Wednesdays, and bring in the fun on Flake-out Fridays!

THANK YOU!!

You can find Laura here:

Here's my Blog: http://lbdiamond.wordpress.com/

Kae Wilson Publishing: http://www.kaewilsonpublishing.com/

Anachron Press: http://www.colinfbarnes.com/anachron-press