I have one or two chapters left in my novel. Finally this project is nearing a close. I've passed 81,000 words today, which feels like an accomplishment in itself, despite the need to restructure the beginning. I do have ideas on how to do that, so no complaints. It's interesting that I'll finally complete this novel after almost a year and a half working on it. That isn't long in terms of a usual novel, but it feels like a long time.
I'm sure it would have been finished sooner if I hadn't kept putting it to the side for all the pieces that were difficult to write, or for the times when I didn't feel up to writing this particular project at the time. Writing is often a personal venture, and almost always solitary.
I'm often ambivalent about this novel project. I plan to publish it, especially after the amount of work that went into it, but the big question is always how. It isn't ready for that stage yet, but it's in the back of my mind often. I know I have some major edits, but after that - traditional publisher or self-publisher? Agent or not? E-book or paper? Who's my target audience? (Okay, I actually have a pretty good idea on that one.) How much time and effort will I spend promoting and marketing this novel? How large is the market I'm focusing on? So many questions, so much time left to put into the manuscript before it's ready to go...
To the other goal, I did send out a submission this month - other than the botched story from the last post. So, there is progress and it's in the direction I want to go.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Sunday, February 15, 2009
The Way Things Work
Every mind works differently, and everyone must choose where their personal limits are. This doesn't apply only to sex, but also to violence or religion or any other topic imaginable.
Often this is treated with an almost instinctual identification. "I like this, therefore this is okay." There are exceptions, things that fall so far outside society's norm that the majority speaks out on the freakiness of the very thought that drives it.
Hard Vore is an example of this. I wrote a story about it, from a somewhat unique perspective. The story itself is written well, but I didn't admit to creating it while I let it process in my head that my brain had gone there. I know it's a crazy subject for a story. I know the audience is very small. As it happens so often with ideas, it banged around my skull until I put it down in words.
Three months later, I'm up to admitting it. I wanted to post it somewhere, to share it as I do others, but the site I chose (after a week open for public viewing and nearly 3000 hits) rejected it for not completely understood reasons. It feels horribly like censorship. I understand that even though a site is dedicated to erotica it might not post everything a writer could dream up that pertains to erotica, but I would expect it to have been rejected sooner.
They have a webmaster look over each story before it goes up, and there's a waiting period associated with it. I expected it to be tossed back then, if it was going to be a problem. I did read their submission guidelines and I also checked out their writer's resources; nothing I found told me the story didn't meet their ideals.
But since I put it out there, now I wonder if I could market it elsewhere. I would not have lived to be this age if curiosity killed anything.
Often this is treated with an almost instinctual identification. "I like this, therefore this is okay." There are exceptions, things that fall so far outside society's norm that the majority speaks out on the freakiness of the very thought that drives it.
Hard Vore is an example of this. I wrote a story about it, from a somewhat unique perspective. The story itself is written well, but I didn't admit to creating it while I let it process in my head that my brain had gone there. I know it's a crazy subject for a story. I know the audience is very small. As it happens so often with ideas, it banged around my skull until I put it down in words.
Three months later, I'm up to admitting it. I wanted to post it somewhere, to share it as I do others, but the site I chose (after a week open for public viewing and nearly 3000 hits) rejected it for not completely understood reasons. It feels horribly like censorship. I understand that even though a site is dedicated to erotica it might not post everything a writer could dream up that pertains to erotica, but I would expect it to have been rejected sooner.
They have a webmaster look over each story before it goes up, and there's a waiting period associated with it. I expected it to be tossed back then, if it was going to be a problem. I did read their submission guidelines and I also checked out their writer's resources; nothing I found told me the story didn't meet their ideals.
But since I put it out there, now I wonder if I could market it elsewhere. I would not have lived to be this age if curiosity killed anything.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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