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Cooper Findling, Kim

 
9781945587689: Bad Mommy Bad Writer: Writing From Home While Keeping the Kids Alive

Synopsis

One woman's quest to make something of herself. During nap time.Me: Mother, wife and writer watching forty climb the front steps like a peddler pushing time, and me with nowhere to hide. The writer part used to come first, the forty used to be thirty, and marriage and motherhood were abstract activities I thought I'd try someday. Ah, growing up. If only it was the thrill promised when we were six. I have written hundreds of articles and essays that have been published. I have written a book that has not been published. It has been rejected. Repeatedly. Eventually, I set the whole stupid manuscript on fire. Did that stop me on this preposterous quest to publish a book? No. All I want in the whole wide world besides being a good mother to my two tiny daughters is to be an author. But writing is hard. And the publishing industry is a beast. And I am terrified of failure. And most of my days are spent trapped under a pile of plastic princesses or scraping peanut butter off of the wall. Will I pull this author thing off? Or will I ditch writing, adopt a Xanax habit, abandon my own identity and live the rest of my life vicariously through my children? Hmm, let's find out.

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À propos de l'auteur

Kim Cooper Findling is an award-winning essayist, editor and author, but not too long ago she was a stay-at-home mom trying to get her career off the ground. Today, she is the editor of Bend Magazine and the publisher of Dancing Moon Press. She is the author of The Sixth Storm, with Libby Findling; Day Trips to the Oregon Coast: Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler; Bend, Oregon Daycations: Day Trips for Curious Families; Day Trips from Portland: Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler; and Chance of Sun: An Oregon Memoir. She revised the most recent editions of Scenic Driving Oregon and Oregon Off the Beaten Path. She lives in Bend, Oregon with her husband, three teenagers, two cats and a betta fish named Romeo. See kimcooperfindling.com.

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