Photo fun for today.
Can you come up with your own caption?
Here is mine:
“The Journey to Publication”
Fun Fridays – May 3, 2024
The Steve Laube Agency
Helping to Change the World…Word by Word
The Steve Laube Agency
Helping to Change the World Word by Word
Weaving Subplots Through Your Story
Up and up and up we climb
to reach the throne room of the Lord
and bask in the glow of Divine,
thinking that we cannot afford
to endure a beggar’s touch
for fear we might become unclean.
Spotless we must be, as such
is requirement to make the scene
to which we in our pride aspire,
a bacchanal of purity
in which the heart’s deepest desire
is that God is our surety
against the dross we left behind,
the rags that might have made us kind.
Wow, Andrew! Right to the heart!
I think the journey to publication ends at that ledge a little more than half way up. The rest of the climb to the top requires marketing, book tours, best seller lists, awards, writing more books etc. Perhaps the caption should be “Journey to Literary Success”. Also, not shown are the Sherpas who help us climb those stairs, carry our baggage, and encourage us along. We call them agents.
Overcoming writer’s block—steady progress toward a great story
View from Top Is Worth the EffortUjjain
I don’t know where Ujjain came from
Subtitle: Praise God! There are steps!!!
“And you thought your commute to work was rough!” Sorry, I am a bit frustrated waiting to for publishing…
“Look, dear, you can see the top. It’s just a short climb.”
Does anyone else see a football with leather laces?
That’s the first thing I saw. Had to increase the size before I saw the stairs!
Yes. It is a well used one, somewhat lopsided. Appropriate. What the game of writing and publishing does to us!!
View from Top Is Worth the Effort
Slow but steady…
If I may…
This reminded me of an old shaggy dog joke.
A Wall Street broker did despair,
thinking all his good was through.
For suicide he did prepare
’till Guru told him what to do.
‘Climb ye to the highest peak
before the golden dawn shall come,
and you will find that which you seek,
and finding be forever young,
for in your navel is a bolt
which only dawn light can remove
and if you do as you are told
you will find your spirit groove.’
Thus was done, though he did scoff.
Dawn turned the bolt, his a** fell off.
Conquering imposter syndrome
Progress: Switchback instead of Backtrack
I think I can I think I can. I did it!!!
You need to be in good shape to climb all the stairs. If the determination is not there to finish, at what point in the climb does one’s fear of height cause him to turn back of freeze? How high is high enough?
I’m curious about the vegetation growing on the side of the hill. That’s a pretty blue color on the house below.
Nope. Your caption is spot-on.
I might add that it is tempting to bail out at the halfway point when they’re not (yet) allowing writers access to the top for multiple reasons. But bailing out means either jumping off the writing deck altogether (which would be devastating) or retreating down all the steps you’ve already painstakingly climbed. Consider the outcropping as a place to rest, reflect on how far you’ve come, and recharge for the rest of the journey. 🙂
I noticed most of the bare spots on the hill are toward the bottom. Using your writers’ analogy, maybe many start or want to start but, for whatever reason, find the climb too perilous and fail to achieve success.
The journey to the right agent
Oh, wait! Let me put this twist into the story too.
or
Never tell me how many steps it is.
Just plain nuts!
I wrote a book “Restoring the Foundations of Righteousness and Justice.” The theme is a call to prayer, deep repentance in America and the realization of depending on the Lord to bring us through the coming judgments. It was a tremendous blessing to write it. I really believe the Lord gave me the message to share. Many close friends have read and joined me in the call to prayer, but the steep climb to publication met with hindrance at the first step! So I look at the picture and thank the Lord! He obviously saved me from the effort. Even coming back down would be work!!! 🙂 I am so encouraged by all of you who persevere to the top!!! The Lord is so good!!!
The editing process.
Steve, your caption was the best because it prompted all these wonderful, creative, thoughtful replies … even TWO poems from Andrew! Jay, I too saw a football(ish thing) with laces at first glance.
Procrastination hill.
The Long and Winding Road. Oh, wait, that’s a Beatles song. It fits, though!
Come on. You won’t be alone.
Writer’s Retreat: Spartan Edition
Writer’s Retreat: Spartan Edition
Persevere to the Pinnacle.
It is picture of my learning curve in the process. Unexpected directions and sharp turns, but the progress is obvious, even if slow and deliberate. Only God could get me up this climb.
The transition from writing to marketing your book.