I’m really not looking forward to being drowned in corn syrup.” Haley set the timer back on the countertop-where it belonged-and opened the refrigerator. Who needs common sense when you have ambition?” This afternoon’s rehearsal had been particularly grueling. Colfax will drop it?” She marched straight to the kitchen, slinging her backpack onto its black-and-white checkerboard floor. Haley went inside, and the screen door banged closed behind her. The day had been cold, but the plastic eggshell was warm. Which one of them had left it here? The decaying porch boards sagged and splintered beneath Haley’s shifting weight as she picked up the timer. Her mother was still at work, too, a dental technician at the only practice in town. Far in the distance, a red combine rolled through the sallow cornfields. Haley Whitehall glanced over her shoulder, as if expecting someone behind her. The egg-shaped timer was on the welcome mat when she came home.
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While I’m learning, it doesn’t change who I am or my value as a writer or as a human being. Sure, I may fail but eventually, with enough practice, I’ll get better. I need to ask her to step back and let me try my hand at marketing again. Growing up, I never experienced unconditional love. I know this and yet when it happens, I’m blind-sided. However, my abused inner child sabotages me. My persona is that of a successful, positive, outgoing woman. What if I put myself out there and people don’t like me? I looked it up on line and have all the symptoms. I think I have atychiphobia, fear of failure, in particular fear of failing at selling my books. While all these things are true, they’re not the root cause of why I stopped. The thought of updating my blog made me freeze, I couldn’t find anything worthwhile to post on Facebook and my newsletter went silent.Īt first I was convinced that I wanted to focus on my writing, then I was tired, then my day-job was overwhelming. 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For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders. In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah Bach, Richard Published by Arrow Books Ltd (2001) ISBN 10: 0099427869 ISBN 13: 9780099427865 New Softcover Quantity: 5 Seller: GreatBookPrices (Columbia, MD, U.S.A.) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Condition: New. The demonstration remains peaceful.Īt this point the government receives a letter that sends its ministers back to their memories of the plague of blindness in the same city four years earlier-and that sends the readers back to Saramago’s earlier novel. The government’s next hope is that a huge, peaceful demonstration will turn sour or violent, and the press does everything it can to encourage this possibility. 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