Working with Words
I find myself working with words more than crafting anything.
For the past three weeks I've been editing, rewriting, writing, working on, etc etc etc on one of my manuscripts from about seven-eight years ago. It had good reviews on fictionpress.com. Even, up until I pulled the story, recently I was still getting favorites on this story that was just sitting there, taking up interspace.
I've taken it. I've doubled it.
I've made polymer clay cats (of the Cheshire and Franken variety), a dormouse in a teapot, a squirrel. I'll probably be making a March Hare or a Supernatural squirrel later today.
I'll still be crafting with my words up until I load my novella's manuscript (anything between x and 50,000 words is considered a novella, and mine is around 32,000 words) onto Amazon.
Self-publishing freaks me out just a little.
Maybe that's why I'm posting this here instead of on the author blog (ajdarcy writes - yes, I'm using a pen name).
What if nobody likes it? What if it does badly? What if I get that dreaded Bad Review?
Regardless, I'll finish my final typo check. I'll waiting for my English teacher friend to finish her read and maybe she can help me with the commas (I've always added too many and or second guessed myself and added too little).
Maybe...
Maybe...
Maybe...
Either way, I'll be reentering the drawing room with the next manuscript in my queue, at least until I've run out of young adult manuscripts.
I'll get to observe students in their natural habitats soon enough when subbing starts again.
Maybe he'll see me differently this year...but that's a different post and not at all about creating things.
For the past three weeks I've been editing, rewriting, writing, working on, etc etc etc on one of my manuscripts from about seven-eight years ago. It had good reviews on fictionpress.com. Even, up until I pulled the story, recently I was still getting favorites on this story that was just sitting there, taking up interspace.
I've taken it. I've doubled it.
I've made polymer clay cats (of the Cheshire and Franken variety), a dormouse in a teapot, a squirrel. I'll probably be making a March Hare or a Supernatural squirrel later today.
I'll still be crafting with my words up until I load my novella's manuscript (anything between x and 50,000 words is considered a novella, and mine is around 32,000 words) onto Amazon.
Self-publishing freaks me out just a little.
Maybe that's why I'm posting this here instead of on the author blog (ajdarcy writes - yes, I'm using a pen name).
What if nobody likes it? What if it does badly? What if I get that dreaded Bad Review?
Regardless, I'll finish my final typo check. I'll waiting for my English teacher friend to finish her read and maybe she can help me with the commas (I've always added too many and or second guessed myself and added too little).
Maybe...
Maybe...
Maybe...
Either way, I'll be reentering the drawing room with the next manuscript in my queue, at least until I've run out of young adult manuscripts.
I'll get to observe students in their natural habitats soon enough when subbing starts again.
Maybe he'll see me differently this year...but that's a different post and not at all about creating things.
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