I'm thinking about the way I write and who I interact with in a writing capacity. Who is helping me, who's hurting me and I've started feeling somewhat fortunate. It's along the lines of the proverb about the man with no shoes meeting the man with no feet. I have time to write, a computer to write on and educated, mildly interested people to read the stories I write. I have access to a wealth spring of advice via Itunes podcasts. I've got it better than some. So I've decided that I'll "shit" rather than getting off the pot. I'm going to orchestrate my own one man mini- NanoWrimo. 19,000 words by the end of April or just how much it takes to finally finishing my novel. That's about 700 words a day, which isn't a lot when you do the math so it's doable if I'm not lazy, which I am admittedly. I literally start the book 3 years ago, it's only 206 pages and 61,000 words. I know how to finish it, I've planned and re-planned and re-re-planned the ending in both outline and in my mind. It's going to happen, it'll happen soon.
What will be the next challenge to meet head on after that and the editing, that I actually somehow find more fulfilling is the Agent/ Editoring (I'm sure that's not a real term.) I think that's so fulfilling because it's more immediate. Weirdly, I like mailing agents and like rejections because it's a result . I put something out into the world and they bite or they don't. With a story or even this blog, there isn't a real pass or fail feeling.
A Quick List of the writing Podcasts I'm Listening to:
I Should Be Writing: Hosted by Mur Lafferty
Writing Excuses: Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells And Howard Tayler
Odyssey SF/F Writing Workshops: Hosted by Odyssey Writing Workshops and Saint Anseim College; Directed by Jean Caveilos
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