2009
Be Brave Rachael!
This month, as copies of The Cattleman’s Daughter are sent out to the media and bookstores I keep telling myself, ‘No risk, no reward!’
I want you to know it takes guts to be a writer – not a person that one day wants to write a book, but a person that writes one book, then another, then another and on and on until the grave.
As a writer you expose your soul and some may throw stones at you or others joyously give you love but amidst all those responses, the only thing I can do is keep on writing.
Recently I read a book by Erica Jong, Fear of Fifty and a couple of quotes stood out like dog’s balls to me.
“It is nothing short of a miracle every time a woman with a child finishes a book”
and …
“Imagine straddling the cosmos, clinging to the tails of comets, knowing that time does not exist. That is the writer’s life. It is the purest connection to the universe a mortal can have. It is also a kind of prayer.”
and finally …
“Women’s right to create both life and art is still questioned everywhere.”
Thank you Erica Jong for your strength and giving me a light to be guided by … its now time for me to go hang out the washing!
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Comments (3 Responses)
“Women’s right to create both life and art is still questioned everywhere.
thankyou.
Hi Rach,
Keep on believing in yourself you are a brilliant author, fantastic wife to John and mother to Rosie and Charlie and a wonderful friend. I look forward to reading this new book.
If it is nothing short of a miracle that a woman with a child finishes a book, then it must be a combination of pure genius and random good fortune that a woman with children manages to write a book. Thankyou for inspiring me – mother of three small ones – to keep chugging away at my own manuscript. I can’t wait to read your new book.