I’m going through some stuff right now. I’m going to try and keep this blog going, but may be intermittent with it, email, and social networking.
When I was a child, I wanted to be an author, not for fame or fortune, but because I believed that I could make a positive difference to the world by writing books. I’ve written a lot of books, under this and the other name. There are published novels out there, and non-fics, and the graphic novel. Admittedly I don’t know how Hopeless is selling, but in all other areas, my books don’t really shift. I promote, I do events, I use the internet, it’s not for lack of trying on that side. It doesn’t help that, despite being up against film, TV, internet, computer games and going out, for your leisure budget, the book industry does not have the kind of marketing budgets these far more successful forms spend. There’s a belief that books are a magic thing that people are bound to want. They aren’t, and without investing in advertising, its no wonder book sales are not great. Archaia, who have Hopeless, work their bottoms off getting word out about books, I have no complaint about them, they punch well above their weight, and are doing a really good job, but the industry as a whole is a sorry mess.
Some days it feels like every other person online is writing a book. The world has no use for that many books. I feel like I’m adding to a pile of crap, not giving something of value, and I’m suffering from profound inspiration fail.
I’ve heard from a lot of sources how an author has to study the market, go where the money is, do what the reader wants. I can’t work that way, it sucks the life and inspiration out of me. Which puts me firmly into the category of the precious and self important author who won’t ever achieve anything. There are a tiny minority of authors who, through sheer genius and innovation get to put something actually new into the world. But I am not Neil Gaiman, or Yan Martel. I’m too ponderous for genre fiction and just plain not clever enough to count as literature.
There comes a time when you have to look at your sales, and how hard it is to get bookings, even when you offer to do it for free, how little interest there is, and look at your contemporaries. People who started after I did have got deals with much bigger houses, can reliably get far higher sales self publishing than I can, sell out at every event they are invited to, and so forth, and recognise there may be a very simple reason for this.
I’m not actually a very good author.
I think I’m wasting everybody’s time, and deluding myself that I could do something of value.
I’m going to take some time and rethink. The ‘proper job’ option is more for the summer, when moving off the boat will mean I don’t have a vast cycling commute to the nearest centres of employment. My body would not be equal to that. I’m going to keep editing, maybe look for more editing work. There are a few people who read this blog, and feed back in ways that make me feel it may be at least as useful as it is self indulgent, which is reason enough to keep going.
I have so little inspiration for fiction – this is not really a choice I’m making, more a recognition that perhaps I have nothing to tell good stories about. This has been building for a long time now, depression, exhaustion, frustration, the shape of the market and my too numerous shortcomings. I’m not anything special, and pretending that I could be has wasted a lot of time for a lot of people, for which I am apologising. I want to do something useful in the world, and this isn’t it. Right now I feel that road sweeping or shelf stacking would constitute a more useful contribution to the state of humanity than what I actually do.
January 13th, 2013 at 11:33 am
Nimue, from what I’ve read of your poetry at least, it isn’t s**t. I’m not a published writer but I’ve been through similar thought processes and come to the conclusion that unless you’re writing for a main stream audience or incredibly lucky you cannot make a career from writing. Accepting that fact was actually quite liberating for me. I work as a packer / cleaner in a saddlery. I do that job because I get on with the people and it is relatively stress free, meaning I’ve got energy for creativity before and after.
I write because I have to. On the odd occasion somebody reads it, or a few people turn up to a performance. On much rarer occasions someone is moved by my work and that’s enough for me.
January 13th, 2013 at 11:53 am
I recogise these words. My brain has them, regularly. It’s the Black Dog talking.
Your books (and mine, and umpteen other authors) aren’t about giant sales. They’re about contributing something that ISN’T out there already. If even one person is affected positively by your words, that book is worth it – and I know for a fact that your books HAVE affected people in such a way (myself included). I have ‘Druidry & Meditation’ on my phone and iPad, because certain phrases just help inspire me when needed. (My favourite is the one about books not being able to put up shelves for you…)
Tom’s art is beautiful, and so are your words. Together you are making amazing things, made up of the skills and inspiration from each of you. You really DO contribute to the world; you ARE a good writer. I know that the negative feedback is easier to take in than the positive, but listen to me – and all those others who read your work daily and smile.
You are loved by many. Your creativity inspires. Your work is valued. I wish writing paid the bills too, but sometimes it is just that small review from a stranger on Amazon or Goodreads that keeps you going. Hold on to that, lady x
January 13th, 2013 at 11:54 am
I’ll let you in on a secret. I asked for Hopeless Maine for Yule but it wasn’t in print yet so I couldn’t get it. Maybe for Imbolc?
As for not being a very good writer, I don’t think there’s an author alive that feels they’re actually good at it. What they are is courageous and willing to give it a shot. The person before is right though, if it’s not mainstream it’s not going to make you a lot. But then again, there was a time when fantasy was decidedly not mainstream but times have changed, so maybe it will for the kind of fiction and non fiction you write as well. Hang in there. You clearly love writing so if writing makes you happy that’s the important part. I love reading your blog. You make lots of statements that I think “Oh, yes, I’ve thought that before.” It’s reassuring that I’m not the only one. And other things you write about I think “Of course, why did I not ever see it that way before.”
January 13th, 2013 at 12:15 pm
Hi Nimue
Since meeting you and Tom at the Steampunk Gathering in Lincoln last year I have been reading a number of your blogs. I have been thinking for the past week of making a response. I find your thoughts and the way you express yourself excellent and stimulating. It is a delight to find someone down to earth and honest in your explorations of the pagan and life in general. I suppose now is a good time to let you know!
I have tried shelf-stacking and it was great for a few months after a ‘high stress and no thanks’ job with a large public employer while trying to build up an antiquarian & 2nd hand book business. But…..after a while the big sell, corporate mindset starts to irritate, even on 3 hours a day. Hats off and respect to those who do it everyday full-time! The enjoyment I derived came with the people I worked with and the people I served. In the end it took me back to my working roots. Finally, age 54, I have found a positive working environment (rare in my experience) and a job I love (for 4 days a week) – and I still get to keep the book selling going as a sideline and interest.
(Incidentally, My ambition at age 3 was to be a road-sweeper. I achieved it at age 18 for a day helping a friend in London who had a summer job doing this. A point of interest, gutters were technically referred to as channels in those days).
I suppose I am letting you know that your writings that I have come across are appreciated by me. Whatever you decide is right for you, don’t entirely give up the writing as I guess that this is also what brings you alive! This society’s measure of success is skewed, ‘the market’ is not neutral.
Maybe, your ‘Personal Demons’ will be the source of future riches.
With love and light in dark places
Rob x
January 13th, 2013 at 12:46 pm
You are an exceptional writer, Nimue, and Druidry is a pathway of great integrity and honour.
I will post your website on linkedin
Sending best wishes that you find something that pays
Warmest wishes
Wendy
January 13th, 2013 at 1:04 pm
Nimue, I’ll tack onto Druidcat’s remarks. Your writing was my first appreciable gateway into Druidry and I, too, have both Druidry and Meditation and Druidry and the Ancestors on my iPad. Your blog reminds me, a solitary Druid candidate, that there are others out there who share some commonality of belief with me and that keeps me from feeling like a lone wolf, so to speak.
True, you may not be Neil Gaiman, but neither is anyone else except Neil Gaiman. If you must back away from non-stop writing, then do so. But don’t listen to that voice that says your writing has no merit.
It does. And I thank you.
January 13th, 2013 at 1:48 pm
Nimue..I love reading your articles. You have a talent for expressing thoughts that are inspirational. Best sellers tend to follow fads and fashion, which are devoured by the sheep. But as the above post succinctly puts it, your writings encourage the lone wolves. Good luck and blessings in whatever path you decide to follow.
January 13th, 2013 at 1:54 pm
Oh, my dear Nimue, you are a great writer. I thoroughly enjoy your words, and look forward to each blog post. Don’t doubt yourself; the book market is awash with authors (especially the ebook market) and it DOES seem like everyone is writing books. You are not adding to a pile of poop, your words shine out like diamonds in a mountain of coal. Be kind to yourself.
January 13th, 2013 at 2:10 pm
Nimue, I empathise completely. I’m in the same boat (ha! Pun! – not literally) – several books out there with publishing houses larger and smaller, all with small budgets, and no doubt like yours my books are ‘minority interest’. My income with about 9 books is almost zilch, and there are many days when I think – after 30 years of being self-employed and living on a very frayed shoestring – I need to get a ‘proper job’. It’s tough.
But as you, Druidcat and John all say, one way and another, it’s not, ultimately, about the peripheral material returns of a celebrity-focused money-focused world but about communicating truths to a small handful of people, and making a tiny difference in those lives and therefore the world.
I haven’t read your books, but it’s obvious from your blog you have a lot to offer.
Don’t stop. Maybe take a break, as you’re saying. One thing I found was that writing my own blog every day, although inspiring and focusing, was in the end too much; and even though a lot of the time I felt inspired and I knew other people were being inspired, it was taking creative energy away from other projects (to my surprise, as for a long time I felt that it was recharging me).
And you will know as much as I do that our personal well needs to fill up frequently if we are offering its waters to the wider world. I lead workshops as well, and I find I easily become drained dry as I put all of me into the work I do with others, human and otherwise, and I forget to allow for this. For me, that’s when the despondency kicks in.
I think I have a few years on you, and I am only JUST now learning that it’s OK, and I have to, put my own needs top of the list sometimes… that’s the price of opting for the path of service rather than dosh, I guess.
You’ll know all of this, of course. Just to say you’re not alone!
January 13th, 2013 at 2:49 pm
Nimue, no “like” from me for this blog post. You suffer a lack of self belief, and you of all people as a Druid must know that what you sow is what you reap.
Feeling sorry for yourself and going all negative when you know damn well you have talent and impact wins no gold stars from me.
I have been following your blog for many months, I contribute responses as I do now. It is a shame you rarely reply to comments, but you run a good blog. You put me to shame by being a regular daily blogger of quality.
Druidry is specialised, a small market, thus you have to be realistic about book sales. As it happens over a month ago I ordered your book Druidry and the Ancestors, which I am slowly reading. I did so because I was impressed with your blog posts, you excited me enough to go buy your book. You have an incredible mix of unrealistic expectations of what a small market will allow, and a lack of belief in your talent and impact upon that market.
If your blog is too much no dishonour to fall back to one post a week or every few days. You got to be realistic about what you want and what you can achieve. Stop, review and evolve.
January 15th, 2013 at 11:32 am
Fair assesment, although I think far more can be ascribed to an excess of ego than to a lack of self belief. I know I’m generally pretty rubbish about responding to comments, but I do appreciate them. As for the blogging every day… frequntly it’s the only thing I’ve felt able to write, and doing it allows me to feel like a writer, to hold some sense of self, some sense of doing something of worth, it has been a sanity thing for me, but if I’m bleeding too much in public… I don’t want to come across as feeling sorry for myself, although I would agree that is a significant flaw in my nature, I need to earn how not to do that. You input is, as ever, much appreciated.
January 13th, 2013 at 3:17 pm
Joe went for a walk. Some people said he should stay at home but he liked to walk, and he went for many miles. He went up a steep hill, and saw birds, which made him happy, and he smiled. He stopped to talk to an old woman, and that made both of them very happy. Then he came to a river. It wasn’t much of a river but Joe was scared of water. It took him a long time to cross over the bridge, but he did it. Other people could run over the bridge but it was a very big thing that Joe did, because of his fear. And he was quite right to feel proud of himself.
Joe got home quite late. Kelly said to him, “Joe, I’ve been watching the Olympic games all day. Why haven’t you won the 100 metres race? Why haven’t you won the cross-country ski-ing? Why haven’t you won the synchronised diving?”
“But I haven’t entered those things,” Joe protested.
“Other people have. Other people have won things. So, why not you?”
“But why me? Those things would not make me happy.”
“What benefit has going for a walk got? What benefit to you? To others? To the world? Society doesn’t reward people going for a walk. You may as well not have bothered. If you can’t win a race, you’re a quitter and a waste of space. Other people won races today! What have you achieved?”
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I hope, by now, you want to throttle Kelly and her silly ideas. There are reasons, and there are reasons, to do anything. But you can’t berate someone for not winning when they never even entered in the first place. You have stated you write because you want to inspire, to challenge and to change the world. HOORAY these are great aims. That is the race YOU have chosen.
So you cannot now beat yourself up because you’re not winning a completely different race. Marketing and audience and sales is a DIFFERENT reason to write a book and demands a different set of skills, a different approach, a different everything. Don’t let people judge you on something you never intended to do in the first place!
I’m totally honest – I write erotica under various pen names for a clear market, to a clear set of reader expectations, because this job has given me an exit route from something loathed. But I see it as a job and I treat it as a business. I would not expect to be judged by the standards of high brow literature (though of course people do!) because I have not chosen to write high brow literature. I haven’t chosen to change the world – I’ve chosen to earn a living so I don’t have to walk into a prison every day to teach IT to the unwilling.
I’ve chosen this path. You’ve chosen another. Therefore you cannot compare these things and anyone who tries to put one above the other is comparing trainers to Tiramisu. Which do you prefer? Er…. depends on the circumstance!
So… I’m accusing you of woolly thinking. I’m telling you to stop conflating these two DIFFERENT things. If you have the urge to write because you want to inspire and change the world KEEP DOING IT as the comments on this blog prove that you ARE SUCCESSFUL in the way that these things are measured.
And I agree with Alex Jones. Daily blogging is too huge a task. We prefer our Nimue happy and healthy and we’re happy to have small and meaningful doses of you if that’s what it takes.
January 13th, 2013 at 4:22 pm
I don’t know how to say how much you have inspired me. Spending time with you was a blessing that gave me so much. The music and meetings were almost otherworldly and I light up with magic pondering them. I don’t think I would have had the confidence to be doing the holistic therapy stuff without a bit of your motivated drive rubbing off on me. However I can’t give up the factory job. Alas it gives me a regular wage. You deserve so much more and it in no way reflects on you if your efforts feel wasted. Oh please don’t give up. Your so not a failure. The fact that something pointless earns more than something of value in no way reflects on your accomplishments. I just suggested to Andrew that a menial task can be grounding but he replied with yes it grinds you into the ground. Not Nimue no never. Carol x
January 13th, 2013 at 4:34 pm
Funny that this comes right after I get a Kobo for Christmas and find Druidry and Meditation on it. Your book was the second I downloaded. While it may be hard and it may be impossible to make ends meet, please, keep writing. As stated above you fill a category that has been sorely lacking. One that a few solitaries like me rely on to take our first step onto this path. I live in a city where 81% of the population profess a christian faith and 16% are atheists. The internet, and all the wonderful teachers I’ve found on here, have been the only link I have to Druidry. .
January 13th, 2013 at 5:02 pm
I have to agree with Autumn Hazelhewn. Your blog is the only link that I receive and read on a daily basis. You have a wonderful way of using words and put a voice to thoughts and feelings that express exactly what I can not do for myself. When I read about your ups and downs, your ideas and emotions, I think…there is someone else out there that gets me, even though you are writing of yourself. I understand your sh**ty days, and how the depression wants to suck the life out of your inspiration, been there and still doing that. But your blog has started a spark inside me, a desire for something more. It has also brought confirmation that Druidry is indeed the path I am following, and have been doing so for several years before knowing this path had a name. I wish you strength and courage, beauty and grace … and look forward to reading each day that you manage to blog. Promise not to conform too much
on your time out.
January 13th, 2013 at 5:29 pm
I wanted to let you know that of all the blogs I read your writing is one of my favorites. I think I may understand what you are saying. My printmaking for a steady paycheck is great to have but I’m surrounded by artist with their work flying of the walls while my own sit gathering dust. I do get frustrated and even depressed by that but I can sometimes see I am a small part of their process. I hope you find your way. I look forward to more of your work!
January 13th, 2013 at 5:58 pm
Dear Nimue,
I’m not sure you remember me any more; it was a long time we were in touch. The reason for this is a number of very difficult personal issues I’m experiencing. One of the things that keeps me going, however, are your articles and musings. So many of the issues you cover I think about as well, and feel enormous relief and comfort knowing I’m not alone.
I am sorry if the silence of the people like me makes you feel like you are not a worthy author. This is why I am leaving this reply; to let you know there are people whose life you are profoundly touching but may now be aware of it.
Thank you,thank you from the bottom of my heart.
January 15th, 2013 at 11:17 am
I am veyr glad to hear from you, and had not forgotten you. I hope things resolve for you, and I’m very glad if I can be helpful at all.
January 13th, 2013 at 6:25 pm
How on earth do you ever expect to be happy when you are comparing yourself to other “successful” authors? Stop comparing, and simply write for the love of it. It is sells, brilliant, if not – it’s not the end of the world. You will always have a dedicated following – the size does not matter. And if you have to find a “proper job” – then again, it’s not that big a deal. Most authors do, but again, leave off any comparisons. It’s your life. Only you can live it. Feeling “special” should not even enter into it – just do. Just write. Get outside of your head and into experience – I’m sure you will rediscover the joy again. xox
January 15th, 2013 at 11:16 am
You have nailed the problem, I got there overnight too, and you are right, but whether I am able to get past these things, I cannot yet tell.
January 15th, 2013 at 1:45 pm
I believe you can – you just have to want to get past it enough. x
January 13th, 2013 at 6:28 pm
I have only recently come to you blog and have thoroughly enjoyed your posts. I think you writing style is easy to read and keeps me drawn in. Because of that alone your book “Druidry and Meditation” is on my “To Buy and Read List”.
You, along with a handful of others, fulfill a niche market in which I feel the true power of your marketing is the word of mouth of those that read your book(s) and recommend them to others.
I work as an actor at a local Renaissance Festival. There aren’t very many books out there on improv acting, but there is a very recent one that was written by another performer from a different Festival. I do not know how many books she has sold, but a good amount of people from our faire and her’s have bought the book and she has made an impact within our community. I do know that she self-publishes, and perhaps that is a path that you could go with it. I do know that she does both ebooks and physical books as well.
With whatever you choose to do, I hope it is what is the best for you and what you desire in life.
Sean
January 13th, 2013 at 8:09 pm
Good Luck with what you choose.
January 13th, 2013 at 8:19 pm
You are an excellent writer, Nimue, and you have done something I have never been able to do: write a book that got published! (More than even!) The best books are the ones that are written with passion and love by one who loves to write. That’s why you are such a great writer!
It looks like you might be hitting what I call a “dry spell”, a period where the well of inspiration seems to have run dry, which brings on feelings of hopelessness and despair. I’ve been there many, many times with my artwork (I haven’t done any real artwork in 4 years now) and with my writing. I find that all I can do is try something else or focus on other things in my life that need attention. The well will fill up again… it always does.
Awen never goes away and you will find it striking you once again.
On another note: Speaking as a writer with two ‘proper jobs’, you might find that working will give you new inspiration. The interaction with people in different settings often inspires me. Many of my best writing has stemmed from things I have seen or done at work. It might be a new form of inspiration for you!
Take care of the personal stuff right now. It may be the direction Awen is taking you at this moment. Wishing you much support and love!
Athelia /|\
January 13th, 2013 at 9:43 pm
Sometimes we think our work is crap because we’re tired; sometimes it’s because we’re tired of the stuff we’ve been working on. But never believe it’s because you can’t write. You are insightful, intelligent and lively. And you are doing a lot of good. I love your blog. Ain’t never going to be a Druid, but if I could follow my own path as wisely, generously and gracefully as you do yours, I’ll be very happy.
January 14th, 2013 at 2:46 am
Awen comes and goes. I am in a writing dry spell myself. Your writing is not junk– I know because I’ve had it to edit! And your blog here and Hopeless are definitely quality for all to see.
Do not criticize yourself for shifting focus to other parts of your multifaceted Geminid abilities. Even if you never write another fiction, they stand as achievements equal to a diploma, each and every one.
January 14th, 2013 at 6:05 am
Your writing is great. Sounds like you’ve hit a wall, but walls can be overcome. When you start working, don’t give up the writing… you’re very good at it and it would be a shame.
January 14th, 2013 at 7:11 am
Greetings from Toronto. I have been meaning to write to you to tell you how very much I enjoy your writings and musings. I think you have some wonderful insights and you have provided me with a lot of food for thought and inspired a lot of entries in my journal/diary. So let me add to the comments from the others on here and encourage you not to give up. And certainly don’t get down on yourself – you have a lot of very intresting and timely things to say that definitely need to be said. And, for myself, I find you have a very engaging, uncomplicated and approachable style so your message comes through loud and clear. That, my dear, is a talent. I’m sure it’s tremendously frustrating for a writer these days. There is so much on the Net that it’s easy to feel your words are falling into a void. The Net is like a big and busy high street that winds its way through town. It may take a while but you will find your niche in that that virtual bookshop/cafe in the quarter where like-minded souls congregate. And from there, word gets out into the real world. By all means, take some time off and look after your material needs – you have to live. But don’t give up.
Regards, Liam
January 14th, 2013 at 8:55 am
This blog is the only one I read regularly. I receive it in my email as a daily digest. Often, I share it on my FB page. More often than not what you write is timely and in some way I am able to infer thoughts, wisdom, lessons and humor that fits to my own experience in a very fundamental and real way.
You make me laugh and you make me cry and when I am able I will definitely pick up your books… yet as a mother of young children I don’t have a lot of time to read in that way… so I am grateful for this bit of you that you share with us until then.
I can’t tell you what you should do, no one can but I want you to know that the way you write, how often you blog and the core of the pathwork you put into your words, reaches me in a deep and poignant way.
Author is a label like any other, sometimes when we try to fit ourselves to them as the story we have told of ourselves for so long we find one say it doesn’t fit the same way…
I have always identified as Witch but recently began to realise Druid might well be a title that fits me too, perhaps even better… I have drawn this realisation from more than one source but one of those sources is definitely your blog.
I don’t know if you are an ‘author’ or not… but I do know you work magic when you write. <3
Wishing you much Love and Laughter Nimue,
Persephone
January 14th, 2013 at 9:01 am
Oh and as an aside, when I say how often you blog, I’m comparing myself… who manages maybe three posts a year. XD
I noticed a few other people mention that maybe daily blogging may be a bit much and if that’s the case I definitely agree with them on the whole ‘blog less, care for self more’ front.
January 14th, 2013 at 10:54 am
Nimue, you’re a truly wonderful writer. I’m reading ‘Druidry and the Ancestors’ at the moment, and marvelling at how you’re saying things that no one else has dared to, and how much those words and thoughts are helping me. People like you are the reason I am still spiritual – I could have just left faith behind when I left the church behind, but because of the wonderful writers out there who are bold enough to share their thoughts and their spirituality with me, I found my gods and my land-spirituality. That’s an amazing gift. Thank you.
When I’ve finished the book, I’ll put up reviews at my blog and Goodreads.
January 14th, 2013 at 12:02 pm
Very few people have the luxury of doing a job that they really enjoy or that provides all the fulfilment that they need in their life. Even those who do have a job that provides a modicum of satisfaction seldom receive any recognition from others. Most stumble along working to provide a roof and food for themselves and their families, using what spare time they can snatch to do something they find personally fulfilling. The lack of recognition and the need to work at something less than they would wish is not a reflection on them or a sign of their failure – it’s part of the human condition. It can be quite liberating to realise that success is not a popularity contest but whether you can make the world a better place, even if only for one other person.
January 14th, 2013 at 2:13 pm
Dear Nimue,
First of all I am sending you an enormous hug! I want to thank you for sharing your gift with words. I LOVE your writing and enjoy reading your blog enormously – it is the only blog I have ever subscribed to. Your skill and ability to put thoughts into words is wonderful and your posts give me a lot of food for thought. I thoroughly enjoyed “Druidry and Meditation” and am currently eagerly awaiting the arrival of your “Druidry and the Ancestors” which I ordered a couple of weeks ago. I hope that you reconnect to the Awen soon and are fired up with inspiration again. Please know that your work is very deeply appreciated!
Warmest wishes,
Jo
January 14th, 2013 at 6:00 pm
You might find that if you step away from it for a bit that inspiration will find you. Inspiration for stories always seems to hit me when I least expect it. In fact, it’s usually when I’m working at a mundane task or at work doing data entry, which I guess is pretty much a mundane task. LOL
I would hate to see you quit doing something that you love to do, but it sounds like you do need a break. I feel down on the whole writing industry lately, too. Publishing has changed so much since I was published that I don’t know what to do either, but I don’t think I could give up writing.
Whatever you decide to do, I wish you well. I hope you do keep writing this blog though because this is the only blog I follow on a daily basis.
January 14th, 2013 at 11:39 pm
I hope you don’t stop writing. I’d not have read your blog for the last several months if I thought it were poorly written. You are able to do something that many writers can’t, you write concisely.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:28 am
This is the Fire Druid Renard. Be real with who you are and what you are. Your path is where the problem is, not whether you can do “something of value”. There are many ways to serve… and to be a caretaker. Writing may seem…might have seemed to be the way for you to express your care taking for this earth. You have a Druid compass… that will point the right way. Have faith in it and yourself. You are needed and wanted… for more than your writing ability and you know it. Now walk the path without fear.
January 16th, 2013 at 9:04 pm
I have been following your blog for about two months now. I pull it up about once a week and then catch up on what you’ve been posting. For that reason I’m sorry I wasn’t there for you when you bottomed out a few days ago, and I want you to know that I find your writing very insightful, thought provoking, and enjoyable reading. Please don’t give up either this blog or getting published. Your thoughts are important and they need to be out there.
January 20th, 2013 at 5:22 pm
I am encouraged that you have continued to write here. I have just recently found your blog through the Wild Hunt where I keep in touch with what is going on in Paganism. You do have have a gift with words so keep writing. i plan to read one of your books in the near future.