Hello? Is this thing on?
tap-tap-tap
OK, seems to be working. Normally blogging isn't my style. I usually prefer to hide out in the shadows and let others do the blabbing. But hey, it's free. Did you hear that? They're letting people fill webservers with their megabytes of narcissism for free now! What the hell, people are narcissistic by nature, and I'm a person. Nobody's reading this anyway.
Until now, I had absolutely nothing to say.
I'm going to let you witness a work in progress, an opportunity to watch the struggle of a complete underdog. At the end of this effort you may cheer me for my victory, cry at my defeat, or just laugh at me for being such a douchbag by writing about it for the world to see.
I'm trying to get a novel published.
Yup, the great American novel. Anyone who knows me is probably sick of hearing about it by now, but TFB. This is fun for me, a person who despised reading in high school, deplored writing, and had no interest in anything unrelated to math or science. As I reached my late twenties until now in my early thirties, that all changed.
I like reading. I like writing. I even appreciate art now, something which I never considered myself capable. I guess I've always loved entertaining people, whether by making them laugh with a joke or telling them a fascinating story.
One day the idea for a story hit me, and I decided to start writing. I won't tell you what it's about. If it gets published, you can read it. Until then, let the suspense gnaw at your soul. I started writing it as a script, but soon I realized I had no idea how to write a script. I read enough books to know how to write prose, so I continued on in chapter form.
I now have a nearly complete manuscript of short novel length. I'm in the process of it's final revision, and then it's off to an agent. Oh wait, I forgot the struggle part. It's the whole agent thing, I don't have one. I realize there's NFW I'm getting published without one, so I have to go through the agent query process. This is where you get to root for me.
As the weeks pass, I'll post my progress here. I've seen others do similar things in blogs and forums and it helped me gather the courage to continues. If this helps anyone with the same idea, goody goody gumdrops. If not, I can always click on the 'delete' link for every post I make.
Stay tuned and wish me luck.
OK, seems to be working. Normally blogging isn't my style. I usually prefer to hide out in the shadows and let others do the blabbing. But hey, it's free. Did you hear that? They're letting people fill webservers with their megabytes of narcissism for free now! What the hell, people are narcissistic by nature, and I'm a person. Nobody's reading this anyway.
Until now, I had absolutely nothing to say.
I'm going to let you witness a work in progress, an opportunity to watch the struggle of a complete underdog. At the end of this effort you may cheer me for my victory, cry at my defeat, or just laugh at me for being such a douchbag by writing about it for the world to see.
I'm trying to get a novel published.
Yup, the great American novel. Anyone who knows me is probably sick of hearing about it by now, but TFB. This is fun for me, a person who despised reading in high school, deplored writing, and had no interest in anything unrelated to math or science. As I reached my late twenties until now in my early thirties, that all changed.
I like reading. I like writing. I even appreciate art now, something which I never considered myself capable. I guess I've always loved entertaining people, whether by making them laugh with a joke or telling them a fascinating story.
One day the idea for a story hit me, and I decided to start writing. I won't tell you what it's about. If it gets published, you can read it. Until then, let the suspense gnaw at your soul. I started writing it as a script, but soon I realized I had no idea how to write a script. I read enough books to know how to write prose, so I continued on in chapter form.
I now have a nearly complete manuscript of short novel length. I'm in the process of it's final revision, and then it's off to an agent. Oh wait, I forgot the struggle part. It's the whole agent thing, I don't have one. I realize there's NFW I'm getting published without one, so I have to go through the agent query process. This is where you get to root for me.
As the weeks pass, I'll post my progress here. I've seen others do similar things in blogs and forums and it helped me gather the courage to continues. If this helps anyone with the same idea, goody goody gumdrops. If not, I can always click on the 'delete' link for every post I make.
Stay tuned and wish me luck.
posted by Bill at 7:02 AM
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