New Directions in My Writing
Something my wife said the other day has got me thinking: I'd love to get published, and sincerely believe that eventually I will achieve that goal, but I'm not going to let that get in the way of why I write. I write because I really truly enjoy it. It relaxes me, it engages my imagination, and it's simply an awesome thing to spend time doing. Granted I don't write as often as I should (though some of that is the limitation my wrists put on me).
On that direction, I'm actually going in a lot of different directions--basically working on whatever inspires me at that moment. Besides the randomness that is this blog, I have three projects I'm currently working on:
- The novel I've been working on for quite sometime, which switched protagonists and is probably going to be split into two books (again :P). I need to finish this, and I've actually gone back to it today, trying to finish revising the latest chapter (18 out of probably 20-25).
- My attempt at re-writing the first protagonist's half of number 1, which was to be my nanowrimo project. That got off to a good start, but stalled out for two reasons: (1) my wrists simply can't keep up with writing that much on a constant basis; (2) the arrival of Modern Warfare 2 in my mailbox ;) Still, I'm going to keep at it even as I try and finish the first project.
- Something I just started doing (and I'm having a lot of fun so far, btw) is writing backstories/vignettes that would probably never make it into a book but are exercises for me in fleshing out my character's POV. Especially characters who aren't the protagonists. I was going to post them here, but in case I need to use them in any of the stories, I'm not. Last thing I want to do is anything that would jeopardize my chances at publication in hard media.
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