Perhaps more experienced writers can tell me: when you’ve published a poem or story or whatever on a given topic, and that topic comes up somewhere, how long does it take before it stops being really really hard not to say “Hey, I wrote a poem about that!” I mean, not to think it, but to say it to other people, and maybe even provide a link?
Because Clotho has come up at least twice in the past few days (here and in a discussion on Ravelry about patron saints / goddesses of knitting) and I have resisted so far, but it took great fortitude. And mine’s only a little poem; I can’t imagine being, say, Jo Walton, having written a whole brilliant book* and not bringing it up when the conversation gets around to Trollope or dragons.
…. am I being an attention whore? Am I trying too hard not to be one and is it OK to mention these things?
*For anyone who has someohw missed it so far, said book is Tooth and Claw, and it is brilliant – Trollope and Austen reimagined with dragons, but a completely different direction than the way Naomi Novik reimagined O’Brian and Forester with dragons.