So I have been trying to get my werewolf story written and it has been a troublesome story. I have the beginning of the story on paper and I know how it is going to the end, but I’ve been struggling to find the voice and arc of the middle.
I have finally figured out where I’ve been going wrong and I think now I should be able to finish it. In reality I still hadn’t settled in what the story was really about. I had some ideas and some characters and some events but it didn’t add up to a complete story.
Now it has. I had that flash of inspiration that seems to bring it all together.
And I think I have found a market for it as well.
It’s a print market which is good. Call me old fashion but I still have a bias towards print. (It’s wrong head I know, but I started writing when computers were things writers simply didn’t have access to. I remember as a teenager lusting for an IBM selectric typewriter.)
Anyway I’m going to push and try to have a first draft finished within a week and a half.
We’ll see.
Google has become a verb.
I”m going over to e-books. I get my reader later this month. (It’s on pre-order now.) And I plan very few hard copy purchases after that. I’ll always do my editing on hard copy, but reading? I can do that on an e-device no trouble.
(SF author John Scalzi doesn’t even OWN a printer much less use one to edit or submit.)
So, first off, I just Googled you from school (yes, I know “Google” is not a verb, but it fits the activity that I did and you know what I mean) and, dang! I found you in one try!! Teeheeteeheeteehee…
I have another writing friend who assures me that the hard copy market will be gone in 10 years. He believes that the only thing left will be e-books and “coffee table” type books, for those anachronists who insist on hanging onto paper. While I see a great deal of value to e-books, I don’t see those of us who grew up with “real” books letting them go any time soon. I also find it easier to edit a hard copy, at the very least. I find it harder to spot the errors in e-text. (I wonder why? In a future world, would I be classified as “learning disabled”?)