So I'm writing a book. That's why you haven't seen much of me on here lately. Time consuming doesn't even begin to cover it. I'd call it a labor of love, but at this point it's more an exercise in frustration.
The book is about the last two and a half years, give or take, of my life. That's my online life and my physical life. How I got started online, the changes I've gone through, the websites, the personal trauma... you name it, there it is. It's primarily written as humor, but there's some shit that you just can't make funny, no matter how hard you try. Like being homeless... not funny. Now maybe you'd THINK it could be, but I tried and... not so much. I've hit the point now that most of the time I'm spending is on going back over chapters I've already written and editing the hell out of them. Since I'm trying to write it following a timeline, it requires a LOT of going back and correcting. YOU try remembering exactly how things happened two years ago, to the day. Yeah, go ahead, and good luck with that. I at least get close, but then I'll be working on something ten chapters later, and one memory will jar another, and I'm sitting here realizing that something back in chapter three happened in a completely different order. Makes you realize the tricks our minds play on us. Damned brain.
Well, it's coming along, anyway. I'm working on chapter 27 now, and the book is probably, ohhhhh, about three fifths done, maybe a little more. *thinks* Hmmmm, maybe it's more like 70%. Hard to say. I've got about 60,000 words done, and your average book is 80 to 85 thousand. Someone else do the math for me. It's too early for me to compute. Haven't had caffeine yet.
I can't say that the book will ever get an agent or a publisher, but at least I'm giving it a go. Oh, and since I didn't mention it, I'm incorporating the articles from this site into my book, in the order I wrote them. So if you find this site entertaining at all, you'd probably like the book. Know any literary agents or publishers? *bats eyes*
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