t's a difficult thing: deciding whether a career is good for you. If there's no glamor in it, we wonder why we aren't chasing our dreams. If there's no money in it, we enviously scroll through facebook pictures of friends with newly minted graduate degrees. If there's glitz and money in it, but no chicken soup for the soul ... well, frankly, I wouldn't know what that's like. But, I can imagine those people also can feel there's something better out there.
The trick is to analyze unhappiness.
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The title of the webinar was "Writing and Selling Young Adult Fiction." Sounds pretty perfect, am I write (heh)? It was hosted by a literary agent, and the fee included a critique of my first 750 words.
Let me tell you my overall feeling once I was finished with this webinar: utter hopelessness. You want to know why? Two scary words: HIGH CONCEPT.
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The title of my master’s thesis was, “Faith and the Imagination: Father William F. Lynch and the Need for Charity”, or something to that effect. I hope it remains deep, deep in the uncharted chasms of the basement library of the Dominican House of Studies for at least the rest of my life, because it was seventy-odd pages of garbledeegook.
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