In the meantime, I'd better set the creepy aliens aside and get to work on the crime/thriller. The term FINAL DRAFT is a little scary-- after all, it means this draft has to be perfect. But when I'm completely finished and I sit back and stare at THE END on the final page ... how cool will that be?
First and foremost, I need to finish the final draft of my crime/thriller so I can self-publish/print-on-demand soon. I also need to add some more chapters to the second crime/thriller. You know ... NAILS, posted here on my blog. So naturally I've been working on my sci-fi book instead. If you're a writer, you know how it is. I just picked up the dusty old manuscript and glanced through a few pages. I didn't mean to get drawn in. It's huge! It's epic! It's ... first draft. And thus way too talky, descriptive, convoluted. Not only first draft, in fact, but the very first manuscript I ever wrote. So much needs to be scrapped. Yet I know there's some very cool stuff in there. Someday you may pick it up off a shelf in a bookstore or a library. Or by the time I finish a final draft and get it published, perhaps you'll order your personal robot to download a digital copy from the hotel gift shop while you're on your Mars vacation. Ahhh, but what enjoyment you'll have then, reading it on your Kindle 2035!
In the meantime, I'd better set the creepy aliens aside and get to work on the crime/thriller. The term FINAL DRAFT is a little scary-- after all, it means this draft has to be perfect. But when I'm completely finished and I sit back and stare at THE END on the final page ... how cool will that be?
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Ok, it's been exactly a week since my New Year's resolutions went into effect. So how am I doing? Take a guess. Made 7 promises to myself. Broke ... pretty much 5 of them. Am I shocked? No. Disappointed? I should be, but if I were the type to be disappointed that I don't get things done ... I'd get things done. Will I start over and try again? Does a bear pee in the Vatican? Does the Pope ride his PopeMobile through the woods? That's the thing about failure -- get your ass back up on that horse again and ride! Or, ok, ok ... if you're like me, bribe said horsie with some apples and sugar cubes first ... spend an hour debating which saddle you want to put on him ... stop to tweet while having lunch ... THEN get back on the horse. Just make sure you get to your destination.
As for my resolutions: # 1 was ... READ! How did I do?: I didn't have time until the night before last. Then I got hooked on Jim Butcher's Dresden 3. Psycho ghosts, what could be cooler? Funny how finding a book you can't put down changes everything. Also, I finally found the man I want to marry! Unfortunately, he's a fictional wizard/detective. # 2 was ... Pringles & chocolate = bad, salads = good How did I do? You don't wanna know # 3 was ... Buy notebook, WRITE old-style to kick-start creative juices. How did I do? Gonna buy that notebook (and pens -- can't find any frakkin' pens in this house) real soon. Honest. But I did "jot down" important details re: new book concept in a WordPad file on my computer. # 4 was ... Update my blog regularly How did I do? I'm guessing you can figure that one out for yourselves. # 5 was ... Save my computer stuff on disks, to keep it safe. How did I do? Pretty %$&# good, if I do say so myself. Didn't save everything yet -- I'm a graphics junkie and need to stick those folders on a disk -- but most of the important stuff is now on DVD's & CDs so that when I need them ... I'll never find them. I don't know, it always somehow turns out that way, doesn't it? But I got it done anyway. # 6 was ... SLEEP! How did I do? Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ... Snort ... cough ... huh? Oh, right. Failed miserably, tired all the time. Something about Twitter whispering seductively to me every time I walk past the computer late at night. # 7 was ... Do something just for ME How did I do? Well, hell, WTF do you think the Pringles and chocolate are about? ;-D Also, I'm going to a movie with friends this weekend. All in all, I'm working on it. For me, with a mind that wanders all over the place on a regular basis, that's not bad :-} |
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