"Being a writer", for the past year or so, has not been awesome. "Being a writer," has involved a lot of waiting. "Being a writer," has involved holding down a lot of menial, slightly embarrassing jobs, in order to earn a very meager living (walking other people's dogs, selling beer at football games, sorting through emails, attending construction prebids at Red Lobsters and Wendy's). "Being a writer"might as well be called "being a slightly incompetent and very slow editor of one's own work."
This is a word map of my past year: Finish book, query, query, walk dogs, query, walk dogs, sell beer, walk dogs, query, wait, wait wait, send sample pages, wait, send full MS, wait, walk dogs, walk dogs, do more embarrassing shit for money, wait, wait, wait, sink into a depression you don't know if you'll ever come out of, important phone conversation, revise, revise, walk dogs, walk dogs, revise, wait, wait, wait, get married, wait, more queries, walk dogs, more full requests, offers of representation, walk dogs, sign contract with agent, revise, revise, wait, walk dogs, wait, sink further into a depression that you thought couldn't get deeper, wait, revise, revise, walk dogs, revise, wait, wait, walk dogs, wait, out on submission, walk dogs, wait, buy house, wait, hear about book going on second reads, wait, wait, walk dogs, do other embarrassing shit for money, walk dogs, wait, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, revise, walk dogs, walk dogs, revise, the pit of depression is apparently bottomless, revise, revise, wait, walk dogs, walk dogs, wait, wait, wait, sign contract for new play commission, wait, wait, walk dogs, wait, wait wait.
Fine, one actual substantive reason that Seth Abramson is bullshit is that he ranked the Wisconsin MFA program, at which he is a student, second in the country. That, my dudes, is not objectivity. That is bullshit.
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