It's taken me a long time to realise that some of the genuine issues I have around trust, insecurity and fear of rejection are the result of working for toxic people early in my working life, in a context where employees are *never allowed to discuss this with new employers*.
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That's an extreme example, especially in the recent context, but it also applies at other levels, too. For example: when writers who are POC talk about the constant microaggressions they have to deal with in publishing, with editors & agencies & at cons, it's the same damn thing.
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"You shouldn't complain," says the received wisdom. "Don't make waves. You'll make yourself unpublishable if you talk about this in public. You'll mark yourself out as a Difficult Author, and you don't want that, do you?" AUGH.
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Anyway. There's a lot more I could say about this, but I'm just tired. I'm at a point where I need to be marketing myself to agencies and agents and I just Can't, because I've got zero self-confidence after what happened last time. So instead, have a thread about stuff. THE END.
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