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crystalwizard
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Posted 9/3/2007 2:53 PM (GMT -4)

David BH Pitchford said...
It's a very sensitive subject for me, but that really has very little to do with me taking it badly. I just get these really squirrely episodes after I finish a major project, a major depression if you want to toss a bit of Freud at it. Part of the affliction comes with a very empty and needy ego at the end of the road. And with a needy ego comes the whole questioning of self-worth, usually replete with self-accusations of worthlessness and the despair of having pushed my life aside for the sake of a novel nobody will ever care to read despite the fact that during the writing I knew it absolutely to be the work of genius and the next HP.

That just sounds like your brain reacting to exhaustion after burning up all sorts of chemicals in the creative drive and probably a blood-sugar imbalance. I recommend a hot meal, a warm bath, a long walk under starry skies and a few rounds of watching funny movies to recharge.

Jordan Lapp
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Posted 9/3/2007 3:13 PM (GMT -4)

David BH Pitchford said...

Okay. First, Jordan, I did take it personally -

Wow, I so didn't mean it personally. I didn't even know that you self-publish in PQ.

I stand by my beliefs and that's why you'll never see my name (outside of an editorial) in EDF. That said, I certainly don't scorn others who do. It's your magazine, and ultimately you are the final authority on what your readers want. Maybe you have a readership that looks forward to your writing, and the magazine would be hurt if you stopped. I'm not sure.

All I know is that I won't self-published, and if I see a magazine that does, I think less of it. But I'm just one reader.

Jordan Lapp

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Posted 6/26/2008 12:47 AM (GMT -4)

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Yeah, none of those.

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