Jkupferberg

"Where once he was a conductor of decisions - a medium who, really, had no idea how his ideas had spliced themselves into rhythmic phrases that collided and conjoined with one another, setting up a final harmony that he always trusted would come – now he had no idea how to make the basic decision of placing an adverb correctly or choosing just the right adjective, one that would not alienate the gatekeeping critics who continually rejected him for reasons that continually eluded him. “What do they want!” he cried. A single crass line of dialogue, a misplaced comma, would paralyze him for months. A word, a phrase, a phoneme - any one of them posssibly consigning him to the slush pile, yet he’d never know for sure. From a Deity of Craft, he was now an Examiner of Ceiling Tiles, his mind badgered by a Greek chorus of invisible critics shouting Cheesy! Stilted! Supercilious! at his every thought."

- Excerpt from Craftsman's Volley by J. Leland Kupferberg

J. Leland Kupferberg is the owner of, and artistic participant in, the newly launched website http://PatronQuo.com - Where Frustrated Writers Go To Earn.