Tuesday April 5th Check-In
So it has been a week since my last post. I’m not off like a shot on here keeping you informed but once a week is better than once a month or even once a year so I’ll applaud myself for trying.
So lets get to the stats, novel one still in the holding phase. Giving it time to settle in my brain before trying to do the first read through and mark up my edits. As for book two I am still plowing along with that one. Last week I had 1,100 and tonight I wrote 1,586 words on that novel, bringing my total to 7,874. Which means I’m keeping my 1,000 words a day pace fairly well.
As much as I enjoy getting this story down that I’m working on, I am really want to get the first book edited so I can turn it over to my first reader.
I’ve heard mixed things about who a first reader should be. For me it was without a doubt going to be my wife. I’ve heard this isn’t the best person for the job, because a spouse or other family members can not be honest with the writer and give a fair opinion on the work. Well anyone who says that has not met my wife.
Although she drives me crazy sometimes, as I am sure she’d say the same about me, she is often brutally honest and often gets labeled a bitch for her efforts. Even with me it is not an uncommon assurance that I get the “your are acting like a d**k or I’m not sure what you are trying to write here, but what ever it is, you aren’t saying it right.”
Although she can be warmer to me than most others, we also have thirteen years history behind us and often we release on each other all the baggage and b.s. that comes with daily life in the pre-teens of the 21st century.
I also feel, like I expect many artist do; whether they be a painter, musician, writer or whatever they do to express themselves, that without an audience then the art they create isn’t able to truly be complete. I mean if I create a story or a painting but never share it with someone else then it is almost as if that piece of art never existed. Of course anyone who has read my work might argue that to use the term art to describe it, brings down people who are true artist. To that I say screw you. have you seen a Picasso? I agree it is art but I for one don’t get it. I’d take a Frank Miller, Frank Fazetta, Tim Sale, or Salvador Dali over Picasso any day. Okay, so if an original was given to me I would take it but it would be up for auction fairly quickly. Unless it was from his blue period, I do like some of that, but I digress.
As I was saying before my mind started to wander like it often does, I want to get my work out there so people can check it out. I know in this modern age I am sure to get blasted by insults that I suck. To those folks I say, fine don’t read anything else I write and it is okay because Mur Lafferty says it is okay to suck. (FYI if you don’t know who Mur Lafferty is, shame on you go to http://murverse.com and check her out. She is a wonderful story teller and pod caster and one of the top three or four pod caster writers that let me feel like it is okay for me to express myself in written words).
So until we meet again,
Nanu Nanu
