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Editing Whiz-Bang Fantastic.

Words lost so far: 3000.

On Chapter: 8 of 20.

Finally Among the Sane Again

Well after having started this blog last October and failing spectacularly at NaNoWriMo 2009, I was pretty much pitching a no-hitter for 2009 writing. I won Script Frenzy by the skin of my teeth (even though I didn’t like the result), but lost JulNoWriMo, lost 3-Day Novel Contest (and paid $50 for the privilege), and lost NaNoWriMo. I was feeling a bit spun out.

Fortunately, the wild careening out of control has resolved itself, and I’ve really only brushed the front fender against a tree, so I’m back on track. My first big writing project of the year is an extensive edit of a novel I wrote for NaNoWriMo back in 2007. I want to show it to some publishers and agents, but after looking it over, I found out that it’s awfully fat, and I need to take the red pen to it. Words lost so far: about 3000, and I’m not even halfway done.

It’s taking a hell of a long time, though. Everywhere I look, there’s some extraneous sentence or clunky use of conjunctions that needs deleting or revising, and all the while, I’m thinking about ways that the story could be added to or subtracted from. It’s a fairly exhausting process, but I need to do it quickly; I don’t want to waste too much time on it when there’s so much else to do.

With the new year starting, animation studios all over the city and country are looking for people, and I’m pretty sick of unemployment, and even more, unemployment in my chosen field (well… second chosen). Much of my time is going to be invested into making new material for my demo reel, if I can remember how to use Maya and Flash effectively enough that I’m using them to make things rather than just wrestling with its interface, but I don’t want to lose too much other time to my writerly pursuits. Once WBF is edited, I want to move on quickly to writing another novel that’s been stewing in my brain ever since 2004, and it’s really itching to get out. I’ll have to work on that, too, on top of everything else.

Busy, busy, busy!

Welcome to the Blog

Hello, world! Welcome to my blog, “A Man of Letters”, a place for me to collect all my scattered thoughts and activities and hopefully arrange them into something that might resemble interesting reading. Many of my ideas and goings-on will be presented here, and if you enjoy reading about them, great. If you’d like to offer your own insights on it, even better. Well, that’s the intro, let’s give this a shot!