FozzieBare: Blog

Just an update:

I've finished the first arc/book (more of a novella then a book), and it's just going through the most frustrating part. editing, waiting for the pre-readers to tell me what works, what doesn't and what silly mistakes I made THIS time. For some reason it seems like it takes forever to get it back from the readers/editors. Maybe I'm just chomping at the bit to keep moving forward.

Elsewhere I compared beating Writer's Block to slaying a dragon. Then I realized it was the wrong metaphor.

It's a hydra. Writer's Block? Head chopped off. In it's place? Two new heads "Editing" and "Revision"

If I slay them? I might run into the Secret Final Boss.
It's Named: "Oh, I'm a much better writer now then when I started this project. Let me rewrite it from scratch"

I could use this post to ask my pre-readers/editors to hurry up, but that's just because to a writer, getting responses to what he's written is like the next hit of certain drugs I won't mention in polite company. A stitch in time saves nine, right? Well, I apparently need to be stitched up.

Fozzie

PS I'm sorry if any excessive giddiness rubs off on you. If it does, send me the dry cleaning bill.

Pre-readers have at least five chapters. Some have nine.

I have to find a way to standardize getting them out to the prereaders.

Once I finish the last three chapters of this arc, it will be a book. A short book, mind you, but one complete arc.

And then it will go to posting.

Thank you for the advice, the suggestions, the offers to pre-read or edit, the whole nine yards.

Keep it coming. And if the fickle muse wills it, EVERYONE will have a new FB story to read for the first time in years in a few days.

Just be like my doctor's office.

Full of Patients. Er.. Patience

After three years, and reading a Webnovel that got my creative juices flowing again, I got to writing.

And words just started spilling out. One after another after another.

I'm not sure I'm going to post it here, when and if I feel like posting (I did 25 pages in one sitting, about seven chapters so far), because it will have ABSOLUTELY no sexual content in it.

But tell you what.

If folks want to read it, and tell me if I'm wasting my time or not, feel free to drop me a line. I'll probably keep writing anyway, I want to keep this writing feeling go as long as it will take me.

Yes, I'm still here.

Yes, I'm still having trouble connecting my story-telling brain to my story-typing fingers. It works.. sometimes.. just not to the level I'm happy with.

I'm my own worst critic.

Healthwise.. well, I'm still on God's Green Earth, despite the best efforts of my own body.

Now if just spring could come, as far as I'm concerned, snow is a four letter words, and shouldn't be said in polite company, like all those other four letter words (especially those that get bandied about here ;)).

First off, thank you very much for those of you who continue to read and let me know you enjoyed my stories.

Another year has passed, and I'm hoping that it's better. After two years of ducking and dodging COVID, I finally got it this summer, and it was just as bad as feared (I take immunocompromising medicines, so it was always going to be bad).

I'm still here, so that damn virus (or whatever you want to call it) didn't finish the job, but well, I know I was in a fight. I am suffering from some possible "LONG-COVID" symptoms... but again. I'm. Still. Here.

Writing wise? Here's hoping '23 is better than '22. I still have much more to write, if I can just get it out of my head and through my fingers.