Hey! It’s day 1212! 🙂 those special days on the incrediblog that are a repeat of numbers 🙂
Coco is really flirting it up right now. She just had her Whimzee stick and now she’s wiggling herself around on the bed between Liz and I, putting her paws up and begging for chest scratched and belly rubs. THIS. DOG.
Worked today – my Netflix project, the latest one, sailed through the approval process which was awesome. I put some extra time in on that one, so that was satisfying to see. I could have uploaded it yesterday, but it just wasn’t feeling quite right, something was missing or confusing, so I thought I’d put it on the back burner till the next morning. Sure enough, I fired up my computer this morning and it was obvious what I needed to rework and fix…and apparently that was the right decision 😛
I then read my novel all day and made proofreading notes. I wanted to finish today…instead I’m halfway through it. Uggghhhhhh. It was a roller coaster today working on that damn thing…for most of the day, I hated it. I was over it. I wanted to be done with the damn thing and never read it ever again. I was sick of it. And then…tonight, after taking a nap, going on a walk and eating some food…I loved it all over again.
Is that normal?
Jesus.
Leaning heavily, heavily toward just self-publishing it, you guys…it’s not a masterpiece. I think it’s okay for me to just put it out there. I have to have a FIRST novel, you know what I mean? And I don’t mean that in any sort of denigrating way…no, I actually firmly believe that with a couple rounds of editing with a professional editor that I could sell it to a publisher. Perhaps not a MAJOR publisher…but maybe…but BUT…
There is genuinely so much to learn from going through the publishing process myself and starting that journey. Why not do it with a novel I already have finished? My mission is to learn how to sell books…I have to start that mission! And the sooner the better, because the sooner I can start the learning.
Anyway, these are the thoughts of this first-time writer man.
I just need to finish. Good lord, let me FINISH.
I leave you tonight with this: anything worth doing, anything really important, will invariably take you twice as long to finish as you thought it would. At least at first. I fucking HATE that shit…but it’s the goddamn truth.
G’night.