Writing is a waiting game.

Especially if you write with the hope of being published, or you write for a living.

First you wait for the idea…although it’s not a sit on your tail sort of wait…you’re looking for the idea, kind of like playing hide and seek.

Then you get the idea and you do the writing, but you’re always ‘waiting’ for the critical moments.  Even as you’re writing one critical moment, you’re waiting for the part of the story where the next critical moment comes in.

Then you finish…and you wait for feedback from friends, first readers, crit groups, etc.  You print it off and start doing the query bit.

You wait to hear from agents.

You wait to hear from editors.

Even once you’re pubbed, the waiting isn’t over.  You still have to wait for feedback from the editor. You wait for cover art, you wait for edits, you wait for galleys, you wait from release day, you wait for feedback from readers, reviewers, etc.

But since you’re a writer, you aren’t just waiting…you’re already writing the next book, and the cycle starts all over again.

Always waiting.

I’m not the patient type. So why on earth am I in a business where I spend so much time just waiting?