The Happy Guy Gets Happy
I haven't posted in a while, mostly because I really didn't have a lot to post about. Still in school. Still writing.
I just wanted to say that I am in the greatest writing group ever. I will love my writing group in Utah and Fairwoods forever, but I've never been in a writing group before where the people involved were so enthusiastic. Everyone submits like crazy, writes like crazy (especially ) and generally buoys each other up. Plus, they put up with my constant 12,000 word short stories.
Also want to say that Chrissy has been awesome lately, as I stress about rewriting the novel, going to school and holding down two jobs. I couldn't have a more supportive partner who plays Mommy and does design and art on the side.
Since the beginning of 2009, I've been much more satisfied with and excited about my writing than I was in 2008, which was, all in all, a depressing and frustrating year. Chrissy and I went deep into debt that is now slowly vanishing from the help of our tax return and my new job. I switched medications dozens of times and fell into serious depression, while trying to agent and be a student.
This year I've so far met my writing goal of writing a short story every month. I finished The Great Beast, my 225k novel Godskin, and have been successful thus far in cutting it. I'm about halfway through and at around 80k, so if I can keep cutting the rest of the book should get down to 160k, and then it will go to the readers, who will no doubt tell me to cut more. I've also quit snacking, lost a little weight, and been running every day. Things are generally looking up, though my attempts to get a real job are still not going anywhere (turns out I have a real mess of a resume, and I'm cleaning it up).
I just wanted to say that I am in the greatest writing group ever. I will love my writing group in Utah and Fairwoods forever, but I've never been in a writing group before where the people involved were so enthusiastic. Everyone submits like crazy, writes like crazy (especially ) and generally buoys each other up. Plus, they put up with my constant 12,000 word short stories.
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Also want to say that Chrissy has been awesome lately, as I stress about rewriting the novel, going to school and holding down two jobs. I couldn't have a more supportive partner who plays Mommy and does design and art on the side.
Since the beginning of 2009, I've been much more satisfied with and excited about my writing than I was in 2008, which was, all in all, a depressing and frustrating year. Chrissy and I went deep into debt that is now slowly vanishing from the help of our tax return and my new job. I switched medications dozens of times and fell into serious depression, while trying to agent and be a student.
This year I've so far met my writing goal of writing a short story every month. I finished The Great Beast, my 225k novel Godskin, and have been successful thus far in cutting it. I'm about halfway through and at around 80k, so if I can keep cutting the rest of the book should get down to 160k, and then it will go to the readers, who will no doubt tell me to cut more. I've also quit snacking, lost a little weight, and been running every day. Things are generally looking up, though my attempts to get a real job are still not going anywhere (turns out I have a real mess of a resume, and I'm cleaning it up).
posted by Spencer Ellsworth at 11:12 AM
9 Comments:
I identify with everything in this post. Everything. Are you a fictional blogging character my subconscious invented?
Yeah, but I got interference from Nathan Fillion and added some dangerous sexiness.
Yay for you! Except for the title of your book. You are not calling it Godskin. YOU. ARE. NOT.
Way to go on the book and the cutting! I am almost finished with mine. The title sounds intriguing to me. Good Luck!
AHHH! F*CKING HELL! EVERYONE HATES EVERY TITLE I HAVE FOR THIS BOOK! WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?
PLEASE. I told you that title sucked a LONG time ago. It's not my fault you haven't changed it. If you let me read it I will come up with a GREAT title for you. I can't write worth shite, but titling - that I can do! Quit being so crabby about it. At least you have people who will tell you these things BEFORE you're trying to shop around a book that sounds like it's about God's foreskin.
What's wrong with a book about God's foreskin?
"I told you that title sucked a LONG time ago. It's not my fault you haven't changed it."
That was the LAST title you told me about. I only used this one because my agent friend liked it.
I am 100% positive I told you this title AND the other one sucked. I remember writing to you that this one sounds like God's foreskin. I might even still have the email.
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