Super Scared to Read Out Loud!

So, on Wednesday, I will be attending the DFW Writer’s Workshop for the second time. Last week I went as just an observer. (Oh, who am I kidding… I can’t do anything as an observer. I started talking and critting people’s work almost immediately*. )

Let me just start by saying that this is an amazing group, and home to the ever impressive Rosemary Clement-Moore. So, it’s like running with the big dogs now.

The thing is… I am a little ascared the big dogs might chew me up and spit my Pomeranian out.

What if they laugh at me?

What if they say I can’t write?

What if they say it all behind my back, and I never know?

or worse… What if they say it to my face?

So, I have big plans to read the first chapter of my YA Superhero novel, Sketch McGee like a million bazillion times this week… until it sounds perfection. Then I will read it out loud for those people, and hope I don’t throw up.

(But, I think I’ll bring a paper bag–just in case.)

*I can never spell immediately right. I always spell it wrong the first time. Thank Jeebus for spellchecker. Ya know?

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