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Updates June 28, 2019

I’ve been raising the stakes on the final battle in Apocalypse, and there’s a body count. I could be done with the big revisions by end of Saturday, and then there’s a big read-through for flow, continuity, and things I forgot to tweak. 

The book has become quite dark, but that’s to be expected given that it’s the freaking Apocalypse. I’m hoping it’s improved. I’m hoping it turns out really good. 

I don’t know how much longer I’m going to be able to maintain the daily entry but I wrote my first piece of flash fiction yesterday.

Not much else to say — I have five submissions out (including Prodigies) and didn’t get any rejections yesterday. 

Talk to you later!

Updates and Musings

  1. A question for myself: What is more important — success (not really), recognition (maybe), or skill/talent/competence (heck yeah!) I will always choose improvement and growth, given the circumstances. And I can see many situations where success happens because of factors that have nothing to do with competence and honing one’s craft.
  2. I’m feeling like I have to blow some cobwebs out of my brain. I don’t know if my muse is still on the job (if you’re reading this, Muse, send me a smile!) I need some fantasy, some novelty, some surprise, a little mysticism, fairy wings, talking cats, a rainbow in a dandelion. I need a charge to help put the young love in this damn book I’m working on. 
  3. I will continue writing. I’ve decided what my pdoc was addressing was my sense of perfectionism and inability to stop at some point of “good enough”*. So, although getting published is a nice to have, it’s not a measure of moderate proficiency. While I’m employed, I might have to settle for moderate proficiency, whatever it is. Or maybe not — I don’t have some of the more time-wasting habits like Netflix and excessive Facebook use, so I might have time for both.   
  4. I find out tomorrow or Tuesday about my Kindle Scout submission. I don’t think it will get adopted into the (now defunct) program. Try, try again. I’m not quite ready to throw it in the abyss of self-publishing.
  5. Any love and support  you can give will be appreciated. Even if the only people reading this are actually bots from Russia or Poland.
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* I often can only focus on one thing at a time because it has to be constantly getting better; I can’t stop at good enough. This is why “walk a half-hour daily” becomes “walk four miles a day and eight miles a day on weekends” becomes “walk the Illinois-Michigan Canal in a week”. (Note: Running isn’t part of the plan. In my case, running isn’t part of God’s plan.)