I’m going to be working with another author on Escape From Red Tower.
Not as a co-author. Traditionally, you’d consider the kind of work we’re going to do together as an author / developmental editor relationship, but this person doesn’t call himself that. He calls it mentoring, and damn if that’s what I need right now.
A mentor.
Granted, this will be of the paid variety…but I want to finish that book. I want to finish the series. I want to move forward. And I’ve recognized that I need help to do that.
And you better believe I’ll be taking notes the entire time, ready to turn around and help others once I’ve licked this thing.
Education is in my future. No question.
I love sharing information. I love learning. I’ve never exactly been a teacher, but I do try to share information I’ve learned as much as I possibly can. I love that shit. It helps ME to understand. The act of explaining the information to someone else really makes it form in my own mind.
I have to say…I’m proud of myself.
I really hit a low point earlier this year when I realized that after all the work I put in last year, I still had a manuscript that was broken. It made me feel like quitting. It made me feel like I was never going to get any better. That I was never going to write again.
And in the face of that negativity and depression, I doubled down on my education and help. I’m already reaping the rewards of that decision. I can feel my spirits being lifted. I wrote new words today, and I was looking forward to writing them.
I will finish this book.
I will finish dozens more books.
This year, 2019, will be the year I can point to where things changed.
I am the change.
Good night 🙂