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New Steps
I’ve been writing at least one thousand words most days ever since November. Unfortunately, I haven’t been doing a lot of anything else. I’m still trying to catch up with typing all the handwritten pages I accumulated during NaNoWriMo. I’ve been adding to that pile almost every day because I don’t have access to my laptop during the day when the bulk of my writing is happening.
I rarely have an issue with the writing part. For me, that’s the easy part. I always have ideas. More ideas than I could ever have time to write. It’s interesting to me because whenever someone talks about a writer, or they are depicted in a book or movie, that is the part people focus on. Even in most of the writing groups I belong to, most focus on the writing part. Coming up with ideas. Finishing the draft. Meeting the writing deadline. Writer’s block. But that is just the very first part. No one talks about everything that comes after finishing the draft. No one talks about the subsequent five drafts and then all the editing and beta reading and revision and finalizing it. Then, if you self-publish, like I plan to, you also have to worry about cover artists and finding proofreaders, formatting, and marketing. All the business stuff. This is the part I struggle with. You know, the follow through.
I wonder if no one talks about that stuff because it isn’t sexy. Its tedious stuff. Geeky stuff. Business stuff. Not at all in tune with the artist writer mystique.
The Breakdown
Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan podcast, by Obsessed Network
Daisy Eagan is an actor, a published author, and a skeptic. This is a weekly podcast about, as the title suggests, weirdness. The episodes range from well-known stuff like the Bermuda Triangle, crop circles, and the Amityville Horror, to lesser-known incidents such as the death of Kendrick Johnson, the disappearance of Brian Shaffer, and the Watcher house (I found that one particularly creepy). She tells the stories in a way that is funny and a little sarcastic which I appreciate. They definitely do their homework, which I also appreciate. Even the well-known topics like the Bermuda triangle, she tells lesser-known stories, not just the always talked about stuff we’ve all heard a million times.
The episodes are around thirty-five minutes long, give or take. I think that’s a great length. Shorter and she wouldn’t be able to do the story justice. Longer and I feel like they would drag. She’s highly entertaining and since I’m into all the weird shit, this is right up my alley.
Living Life
The weather here has been so weird. Around Christmas, I went down to a local beer market to work. They have no indoor seating. Some of it is covered, but its basically a store and brewery with a courtyard between. It was so warm, I didn’t even need a jacket. I wore a short sleeve shirt with a plaid flannel button down over it. Unbuttoned. I sat out there for a couple of hours enjoying a couple local brews and working on editing my novel.
Two weeks ago, it snowed, and the temperatures plummeted into the teens at night. Schools were cancelled and half the office either left early or worked from home the next day to avoid the weather.
Now it’s raining.
Yep, there is so little going on in my life besides writing I resorted to talking about the weather.
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