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My novel - you can buy it!
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So, I haven't posted on here in forever, but -
I have a novel coming out soon (end of June), and you can buy it now:
The Peach and the Poppy
It's about lesbians in Paris.
Buy it. Review it.
Help me be a little less of a struggling writer.
I have a novel coming out soon (end of June), and you can buy it now:
The Peach and the Poppy
It's about lesbians in Paris.
Buy it. Review it.
Help me be a little less of a struggling writer.
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A Novel Idea!
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So, roughly 2 AM, 3-24-11
This marks a pretty fucking satisfying accomplishment for me as a writer.
After maybe a year or two of slow, gradual work,
I finally have the OFFICIAL first draft of the first chapter of the first section of my (potentially) first finished book.
It sounds like a long time for so little - it's about 8 pages, total - but I'm a slow worker, and I haven't been too focused on this project. I kind of just worked on it in small bursts.
Also, I have quite a bit more written, but it's still all in notebooks.
This, in some arguments, isn't the first draft - I've rewritten this at least three or four times. (It's based off a prequel I wrote, to a piece I wrote when I was 16, so this goes way back.) But what I have now is the piece in the format I want it in (typed up, broken into a bunch of mini-chapters), and in a way that I'm finally comfortable letting other people read it. Granted, it's going to be a select few people, but this has been otherwise under-wraps.
For those of you who remember my Katelyn story, I'm going to be integrating that as part of this book. Going to rewrite, and actually finish it.
I know that probably none of you give a shit, but I'm pretty damn happy with myself.
This marks a pretty fucking satisfying accomplishment for me as a writer.
After maybe a year or two of slow, gradual work,
I finally have the OFFICIAL first draft of the first chapter of the first section of my (potentially) first finished book.
It sounds like a long time for so little - it's about 8 pages, total - but I'm a slow worker, and I haven't been too focused on this project. I kind of just worked on it in small bursts.
Also, I have quite a bit more written, but it's still all in notebooks.
This, in some arguments, isn't the first draft - I've rewritten this at least three or four times. (It's based off a prequel I wrote, to a piece I wrote when I was 16, so this goes way back.) But what I have now is the piece in the format I want it in (typed up, broken into a bunch of mini-chapters), and in a way that I'm finally comfortable letting other people read it. Granted, it's going to be a select few people, but this has been otherwise under-wraps.
For those of you who remember my Katelyn story, I'm going to be integrating that as part of this book. Going to rewrite, and actually finish it.
I know that probably none of you give a shit, but I'm pretty damn happy with myself.
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Get ready... to go 'really?'
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Ready to think/say "...Really?"?
Okay, here it goes.
(You're ready, right?)
(I hope you are.)
(I wasn't.)
(Here it is!)
There is such a word as "trilemma."
As in, a dilemma with three options.
Seriously. Look it up.
Yeah, really
Okay, here it goes.
(You're ready, right?)
(I hope you are.)
(I wasn't.)
(Here it is!)
There is such a word as "trilemma."
As in, a dilemma with three options.
Seriously. Look it up.
Yeah, really
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Another goodbye
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Though another lifelong friend has departed,
the universe takes, and gives back;
it reminds me that there are still people who need me,
and that mourning is only the first step
in appreciating and celebrating a life.
Goodbye Chloe,
Mutt and second mother.
the universe takes, and gives back;
it reminds me that there are still people who need me,
and that mourning is only the first step
in appreciating and celebrating a life.
Goodbye Chloe,
Mutt and second mother.
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Attention Deviantart:
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"Fan-art" is NOT art.
"Fan-fiction" is NOT literature.
Thus: the production of either of these things does NOT constitute you as an artist.
Developing a personality based around a meaningless collection of mix-and-match attributes is not inventive. Your "OC" is not Original, and hardly a Character.
If your capacity for imagination requires readily-established plot-lines, pre-made characters
and/or
If the only reason your style of drawing doesn't exactly match that of your influences is simply your lack of talent,
then
you're probably never going to create anything remotely remarkable, and will never produce anything for the greater market.
Just because elementary school taught you how to hold a pencil, and how to create words with it, that does not mean you are a capable drawer or writer.
Just puttin' it out there.
"Fan-fiction" is NOT literature.
Thus: the production of either of these things does NOT constitute you as an artist.
Developing a personality based around a meaningless collection of mix-and-match attributes is not inventive. Your "OC" is not Original, and hardly a Character.
If your capacity for imagination requires readily-established plot-lines, pre-made characters
and/or
If the only reason your style of drawing doesn't exactly match that of your influences is simply your lack of talent,
then
you're probably never going to create anything remotely remarkable, and will never produce anything for the greater market.
Just because elementary school taught you how to hold a pencil, and how to create words with it, that does not mean you are a capable drawer or writer.
Just puttin' it out there.
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