Radio Silence

Saturday, March 23, 2013 § 3

Ah, it's been a while!  I wasn't even checking my RSS feeds ...

The day job exploded (but there is, one hopes, another publication or two at the end of that tunnel), and I decided to forgo social media for a while in order to focus on ... writing a novel.  I'd never really had an idea that I felt was sufficient to spin into an 80,000+ word story, but one day I did, and I thought, eh, why not?  Everyone's first novel--unless you are Haruki Murakami--is unpublishable anyway, right?  Why not let things be what they must be.  What that philosophy in mind I wrote my Great Unpublishable Novel from last August until this past Friday.  It clocked in at 85,000 words and I had a great time.  I learned an immense amount from the experience and I feel ready to go back to attempting to write Publishable Things.

(Like a piece for the next issue of Imaginary Beasts!)

I know some people would say writing something without caring about publishing it is a waste of time, but I felt in this instance that the experience would pay for itself, and I think it has.  Also I now have, you know, 85,000 words to mine in the future.

Anyway, I'm back!  I need to clean up that twitter feed and RSS feed, and I want to make some new friends, and comment on people's blogs, and probably also convert this thing from blogger to wordpress.

What's this?

You are currently reading Radio Silence at .:. Another Likely Story.

meta

§ 3 Response to “Radio Silence”

  • Anonymous says:

    Way to go! 85K is no small feat, regardless of whether you think it's currently publishable. No first draft is anyway, right? Set it aside for a month or two, then look at it again and salvage all the awesomeness you find there.

  • Kara says:

    Thank you so much! :D I do look forward to playing with it again.

  • waltonkadish says:

    Stephany loves gaming, she is especially fond of bingo games, blackjack, slot machines, and old school Nintendo. She has a special place in her heart for Sega and on-line poker. Si Redd took his company, SIRCOMA, and renamed it IGT , which’s now a reputable software developer. The video poker machines have been gradually accepted amongst gamblers in playing houses. It wasn’t until 1970 that Dale Electronics launched the primary video poker machine. It was dubbed Poker-Matic, and it was installed in just about each on 1xbet line casino in Las Vegas at the time.

§ Leave a Reply