Publishing Nightmare
Last night I dreamt that I was reading an email from my agent and editor. The gist was this, "Your new book is terrible." I still remember certain phrases of the nightmare email including, "you made a horrible decision to continue on this path" and "fair to middling at best." Um. Ouch. I think my anxiety is showing.
While my writing process has sometimes interfered with my sleeping (sometimes my characters don't understand my need for sleep and they'd much rather I think about them ALL the time and sometimes my idiot brain obliges and that prompts my very tired body to threaten my brain with divorce, or whatever the alternative is--decapitation?) I've never before had nightmares about the publishing/critical reception. Worries? Aplenty! Concerns? Barrels of them! But nightmares? No. Not until last night.
I hope this was an isolated incident.