[Are you writing stuff you would have fun reading? If so, then how you can you be prejudiced against your own work?
'cause I don't want half naked people on the cover of my book?
(See that proves I'm optimistic about my publishing chances.)
I ad been in a small just SF/Fantasy critique group for a while, but although it was great for idea bouncing it was not helping me improve my writing craft, and I knew I needed help in that area. CWP is multi genre group and really geared to helping people get published, and we have some fairly successful alumni/members. There are several people who read and write SF in the group and they do think I'm on the right track, so I'm pretty sure it's just paranoia talking when I wonder if I have a market.
-Complete aside / semi-tangental rant-
Just as I was getting at a key and complicated section of my currant project my father-in-law was dignosed with final stage lung/brain cancer. He and my husband are estranged, but we are the only intown family. My father-in-law was a piss and vinegar eccentric, conspiracy theory believing, urban Appalachian stereotype before he got sick, the drugs and disease have not improved things. I've had at my husband's sister and her family (off and on), who I do love to bits and pieces, staying with us in our one bathroom house for most of the past five weeks. I'm a slow writer to start out and this has sucked what writing time/energy I have and I'm having trouble getting things on paper for the first time since I started writing seriously. Everything I do seems to be all wrong when I read it the next day. I know what has to happen next in my novel, but I can't seem to control my character's conversations. So, I know it's the situation talking to me, but I'm wondering if I have what it takes to make it as a writer.
-End of Rant-