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Too Early… Just in Time

March 5th, 2010

Ask any writer what her best project is, and she’ll tell you it’s what she’s working on now. (And this is more than understandable… you need to have that internal motivation to keep working and moving forward in the hopes to get it out into the world without any kind of guarantee — pay, deadline, recognition during the process, or even any promise of recognition after.)

Unfortunately, over a year ago, when I was knee deep in a new musical, I sent some of the songs out, and got my first rejection.

By this point, even though it’s true rejection is rejection, it’s par for the course… I think it was too early for that piece to go out into the world. I didn’t even have a full first draft yet!

Like a baby bird that hasn’t yet learned to fly, that piece was swiftly grounded. And unfortunately, I haven’t touched it since.

But, I’ve been hearing pieces of my favorite song, the finale, over and over again… It’s the last thing I heard in my consciousness before drifting off to sleep last night.

And though it might have been too early, it feels like it’s finally time to get this going again.

–Sue

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