Sorry it's been so long between posts. Christmas came, and Christmas is often crazy and busy for me. There was also a perfect storm of other events that made my life considerably more busy. Other events like getting the black death (stomach flu), and a certain game that I was ridiculously excited for coming out (*cough* Star Wars: The Old Republic *cough*).
I wanted to share a couple thoughts in lieu of the blog I'd planned.
Sometimes, being a writer is demoralizing.
Today I got my first batch of feedback from my first reader. I was excited to see what he had to say about the book. I sped-read through all his feedback and at the end was depressed.
This is something I should know: artistic endeavour takes incremental improvement. It would be insane to think that my book was perfect, or almost perfect, in its first draft. But in spite of me knowing this my overly optimistic side somehow seemed to think that I wouldn't have to do that much to improve or clean up my novel. How wrong I was.
This is of course something all writers go through: realizing that there are massive gaps in what they've written, and that they still have a lot of work to do. It can be demoralizing and intimidating.
Fortunately, I am relentlessly optimistic. I'll make myself a grand list of improvements I need to make, then go through them one at a time and write until I've made all the necessary improvements. Maybe draft 2 will be perfect! (not).
Next blog: All about naming characters!
I wanted to share a couple thoughts in lieu of the blog I'd planned.
Sometimes, being a writer is demoralizing.
Today I got my first batch of feedback from my first reader. I was excited to see what he had to say about the book. I sped-read through all his feedback and at the end was depressed.
This is something I should know: artistic endeavour takes incremental improvement. It would be insane to think that my book was perfect, or almost perfect, in its first draft. But in spite of me knowing this my overly optimistic side somehow seemed to think that I wouldn't have to do that much to improve or clean up my novel. How wrong I was.
This is of course something all writers go through: realizing that there are massive gaps in what they've written, and that they still have a lot of work to do. It can be demoralizing and intimidating.
Fortunately, I am relentlessly optimistic. I'll make myself a grand list of improvements I need to make, then go through them one at a time and write until I've made all the necessary improvements. Maybe draft 2 will be perfect! (not).
Next blog: All about naming characters!
