Okay, so I've spent almost two years of my life writing my 70000 + word manuscript, I have drafted, redrafted and edited and re-edited, and now I understand what everyone has been saying, the really hard part is not writing your book, it's getting a publisher to publish it or an agent to represent it to a publisher who may or may not publish it.
Well I haven't come this far to give up now, so I will persevere until I find someone out there who believes in my work as much as I do. Sure I can self-publish if I'm really desperate to see my novel on bookshelves but why should I have to go down that track, I believe in the traditional form of publishing where if an editor feels that a manuscript has merit he or she will say, "Hey this is pretty good, let's get it out there."
Then there's the world exposure, and I don't mean going out stark naked for the entire world to see you in all your glory, I mean getting your name out there and having followers who read your work and hang onto every word that you write. That in itself is a little difficult when you have not yet been published and so the vicious circle begins. To become a published author it is preferable that you have already been published, but how do you get to have something published when you haven't already had something published. See what I mean?
Monday, August 29, 2011
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Selfish Teenagers
Today's teenagers are too self-absorbed, want everything handed to them on a silver platter while thinking that the world should revolve around them.
I look around at the teenagers of today and see not only a lot of selfishness but also a lot of disregard for everyone else around them. It's all about "Me, me, me" with them. Years ago, if we wanted something we worked for it and earned it, these days, not only are there a great majority of teenagers that have never worked a day in their lives, but they expect centrelink to hand them money every fortnight for not doing anything for it. And what's worse, I see a lot of 17 and 18 year old's that still have their parents pay for their mobile phone accounts and fuel for the cars that their parents have stupidly bought for them. Kids will never learn to appreciate anything when it is handed to them on that silver platter. Let them get a job and buy their own phones, cars and fuel, they're never going to learn the value of anything if they don't earn it themselves. Unfortunately we're raising a society of spoiled little brats who abuse our love as parents and use that same love against us as a form of bribery. WAKE UP MUMS AND DADS!!! Take control and learn to say NO!!!! Enough is enough, stop thinking that your kids will love you more if you give, give, give to them, they are not stupid, they know exactly what they're doing, THEY ARE USING YOU!!!
I look around at the teenagers of today and see not only a lot of selfishness but also a lot of disregard for everyone else around them. It's all about "Me, me, me" with them. Years ago, if we wanted something we worked for it and earned it, these days, not only are there a great majority of teenagers that have never worked a day in their lives, but they expect centrelink to hand them money every fortnight for not doing anything for it. And what's worse, I see a lot of 17 and 18 year old's that still have their parents pay for their mobile phone accounts and fuel for the cars that their parents have stupidly bought for them. Kids will never learn to appreciate anything when it is handed to them on that silver platter. Let them get a job and buy their own phones, cars and fuel, they're never going to learn the value of anything if they don't earn it themselves. Unfortunately we're raising a society of spoiled little brats who abuse our love as parents and use that same love against us as a form of bribery. WAKE UP MUMS AND DADS!!! Take control and learn to say NO!!!! Enough is enough, stop thinking that your kids will love you more if you give, give, give to them, they are not stupid, they know exactly what they're doing, THEY ARE USING YOU!!!
Monday, August 22, 2011
Our teenagers. To interfere or not to interfere.
Interfering in our teenager's lives. Should we? I don't think that there is really a right or wrong answer to this question. If we look back to when we were mere teenagers, did we really want our parents to interfere in our lives. No I don't think so, I know that I didn't dare tell my parents anything that would give them reason to reprimand or even dabble in my personal life back then, but then again I never had the urge to give myself the opportunity to confide in them about anything at all because I knew damned well that it would all backfire on me.
But life with my own teenagers is very different to when I was growing up. They choose to confide in me but that's only because I don't talk down to them or order them to do things certain ways. I have always given them the opportunity to choose for themselves which way to go about certain things in their lives. I am a firm believer of making your own mistakes and learning from them. If it looks like they're burying themselves too deep then that is the time that I step in and begin to re-install my beliefs into them. But honestly if they can work it out for themselves, then let them be I say. "Whatever doesn't break you makes you stronger" that saying has been around for as long as I can remember and it's very true. If kids have been raised in a well balanced home with good morals and firm guidelines of what they are allowed to do and what they're not, then I believe that they will head in the right direction. Sure, a few sidesteps may throw them off-course for a moment or two but they'll get straight back on track soon enough and as parents the only thing we need to do is stand back and be on guard for those times that they may need a bit of an encouraging steer to put them back in the right direction. So I say, interfere if you must, but ONLY if you must.
Until next time,
Ciao' for now..
M.C. Holman
But life with my own teenagers is very different to when I was growing up. They choose to confide in me but that's only because I don't talk down to them or order them to do things certain ways. I have always given them the opportunity to choose for themselves which way to go about certain things in their lives. I am a firm believer of making your own mistakes and learning from them. If it looks like they're burying themselves too deep then that is the time that I step in and begin to re-install my beliefs into them. But honestly if they can work it out for themselves, then let them be I say. "Whatever doesn't break you makes you stronger" that saying has been around for as long as I can remember and it's very true. If kids have been raised in a well balanced home with good morals and firm guidelines of what they are allowed to do and what they're not, then I believe that they will head in the right direction. Sure, a few sidesteps may throw them off-course for a moment or two but they'll get straight back on track soon enough and as parents the only thing we need to do is stand back and be on guard for those times that they may need a bit of an encouraging steer to put them back in the right direction. So I say, interfere if you must, but ONLY if you must.
Until next time,
Ciao' for now..
M.C. Holman
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