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.