re: Help for an aspiring writer...

I’ve written a novel and a few short stories

Loosely tried to publish the novel a few years ago but didn’t really have the network or resources. The literary marketplace book was a good starting point to get in the door with a couple publishing houses.

I wrote a short horror story on a recent long turbulent flight that got good feedback from some close writing peers.

I kinda wanna get back to the novel and do more revisions (the worst part of tProcess by far) but i also kinda just wanna leave it alone in my computer. I plan on writing another one day.

I always liked the quote from Finding Forrester about the first draft coming from your heart and the second from your head and how no matter how good or shite your end product is, you should feel satisfaction at doing something that most people not even some editors have ever accomplished.