Author’s frustrations

3-12-2009
It just seems to never end. You finally finish the rough draft. then immediatly you get into waiting for the editor to find all the mistakes. When You get that back, make the corrections, and start to think “It’s finally ready to go.”
you get the copy to be checked you find that something major changed somewhere in the process that is going to create a correction forcing a one week delay. No matter how frustrating things seem, they always have a silver lining. The good thing is it gives me and my wife one more week to find anything that can be found to get corrected before it hits the market. It does delay things a little but it is a blessing. I need to more patience anyway.
Learning through all the frustrations is not easy but if I refuse to learn from them than I will continue to have them until I give in and learn what I need to know anyway. So here goes one more lesson to learn on top of the thousand others already on the agenda to learn. I think I’ll make it through.
What struggles do you face that can be lessons for you?