And this is why I've not written a novel. Good effort, man!Writing-wise, there are two big news items for me.
First, the webcomic is now on hiatus. Lost my artist. I am just going to let it slumber for now.
Second is I went through and revised a novel that I wrote back in 2008. There was a rather large, intimidating section that I knew had to be cut because, immediately after I finished writing it, I said, "Damn...this crap is just filler!" However, I was stumped as to what I should replace it with. (And yes, I HAD to replace it or else the story wouldn't be novel length.)
So I let it sit...and sit...and sit.
Recently a website agreed to let me post the novel in serialized form, so I got to work revising the story. When I got to the sections that needed to be cut, I had MS Word tally up the word count and found it was a whopping 8,600 words long! CRAP! What am I going to replace that with?
I still had no answer, so what I did was chop out the offending bits and then marched forward, going to the end of the novel until I revised everything I knew how to handle. On the way, I made myself a neat little list of ideas of different threads I could stick in the story. The list was 7 items long. Upon looking back over the list, I saw 2 items were useless. However, that still left me with 5.
I got to writing, inserting them all into the narrative. (Well, all but one. Still trying to figure out a good place for it.) And wouldn't you know it? The novel is now 62,000 words long...3,000 more than it was before the excising!
Sometimes, life is good.
just reading a novel is stressful enough! you sit there and you continue sitting there... time goes by and your still sitting there. reading a book. i cant even read a book for 15 minutes without becoming dreadfully bored. but writing a book! thats one challenge im not touching but good luck to anyone who does.
Reading is something I can do almost endlessly, usually. I've had trouble concentrating on reading lately, but usually it's something I'll unintentionally lose sleep doing.
you ought to try it.
Agreed. Just don't read what you're "supposed to". Read something that is, in fact, fun. For some folks (like my wife) that's the same thing. For others, there's almost no overlap. For me, some of the "supposed to" stuff is just not worth the effort, and some of it is a lot of fun and/or fulfilling in some way.
then again, it's the place of youth in history, to rebel against the 'classics'
of course, sometimes you have to pick up one you think you don't like, and just read.
Yeah, I don't think I ever read the entirety of a book that was assigned. Some I've read since then, and found fulfilling, but I had a major quite rebellious streak. I read a ton, but not what teachers wanted me to. Fortunately, my dad had a good library of sci-fi, psychology, self-help, Shakespeare, and philosophy.
Yeah, I start some that I end up putting down. I finally learned that was okay sometime in my 30's. My wife actually enjoys that stuff. She reads (and re-reads) Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and a bunch of others. She also reads sci-fi/fantasy, so I keep her.
