Hiatus-ish
What to do, what to do? The following are the rants and quandaries of a mopey lost writer one failed and slightly boring morning.
I finished my third novel, and might start proofing it soon, but certainly not this week. Gotta give it time to cool in the grave before I dig it up and start rummaging around for any accidentally buried treasures.
I have sent my first novel off to an agency. I have 4-6 weeks of waiting to go, with about 5 of those weeks still in my future. What do I do in that time? Think happy thoughts? Put on ruby red slippers and click my heels together saying “There’s no contract like one with
I’m making notes on my next novel, it’s The Wanderers meets the X-Men, but not in the way you think it should. I’ve got plenty of notes on it, and almost considered starting it this morning but thankfully didn’t. I want to do more work on it, and I don’t honestly want to start it yet. I want to commit myself harder to selling the three novels I have already. But I miss getting up at 5am, give or take, and having a novel singing me good morning and kissing me on the cheek to kick start my lonely dark hours with a bit of mischievous fun.
I’ve written enough of my webcomic, Eponymous Bosch (link to the right), and now need an artist, which I cannot find because I can’t post on DigitalWebbing and I don’t know where else to look. So that just sucks all round.
I’ve written three short stories in the last few weeks. I wouldn’t mind seeing if inspiration strikes in that quadrant again, but it always feels so fleeting. It’s probably the best thing for me to do now, but I can only run with it once a mini story idea comes along that won’t suit further investigation and re-purposing into a novel.
Hell, I could just get up and read a book. That might be fun, but that’s the opposite of writing. I’m productive, kind of, but I miss having a novel drive my days. Everything else is just flirting and fake phone numbers, I want love again, dammit.
I think what needs to happen is to do a lot more notes on my story, not even so much plot points but character studies and little background bio notes. I know I should, but will I?
I wonder what I’ll do tomorrow morning?
Posted on November 11th, 2009 by ryan
Filed under: Writing
When I finished my last novel, there was no way I could have gone into writing another one immediately. Luckily I’d built up plenty of ideas for plays, comics, short stories etc. that I wasn’t short of things to write.
I’m just over half way through my latest novel, and looking forward to the time when I’ll be able to concentrate on other projects again… but I do understand that wonderful feeling of going back to an old friend every morning.
For comic illustration I can recommend Rhys at The Plastic Age http://www.the-plastic-age.com/ I have worked with him before and he is ace.