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With Buttercreme
I have this sneaking suspicion that I have an artist’s temperament just waiting to be unleashed. The good news is that I only freak out to my sisters and My Honey and not on the people who buy my books and allow me to be published.
When I got the email from my editor with the changes she was requesting, I lost my mind in the produce department of Frys. Ava got me under control after about 10 minutes. I’m working on the edits and I’m with the program now, but initially crying and panicking was completely appropriate.
Then I got a cover mock-up from the artist and my head exploded. Isabella was there this time to keep me from going postal. My Honey got out the mop.
I seriously don’t know what I’d do without them.
Cupcakes all around
Of course you have an artist’s temperament! You ARE an artist–and your muse is the written word.
You are unlucky, though, that you have to answer to an editor who wants you to make changes. If someone wants me to make a change in a painting that I have for sale, I simply tell them to go ***** themselves. Oh, o.k.–if you counted the little asterisks, you know that word is not what you thought it was. The word is “paint,” but it just as easily could have been the other word.
If you want to have a breakdown and get all weepy when your editor wants changes, then by all means do. Then GET OVER IT!