Welcome to anyone who stumbles in here. I have made this wordpress anonymously in order to talk about my writing life, which I will also be conducting anonymously. I would like to become a novelist, but I do not want to reveal my identity for my own reasons. I would like to be able to publish my stories widely and hopefully get a reader base without becoming famous myself. Of course I only want to be published digitally, and ultimately the goal of all of this is to become such a writer that my stories can captivate other humans. I do not want to be published otherwise.
Last week I finished (what I will call) my first novel. It is not the first I have written, but the first which I believe is capable of, after much editing, being published. I would like to be in with a publishing agent, or what have you, by the end of the year 2010.
Basically the aftershock of having written a novel was quite profound. I am a student, so when I finished it I had a week’s worth of classes to distract me, but afterwards this weekend I had a minor mental breakdown from self-displacement. It can’t be healthy, putting your soul over here onto a piece of paper and then reexamining yourself as an empty shell. Surely all novelists are masochists to some degree. I have had quite the weekend because of this.
Although now I think I am handling it quite well. I looked at my printed rough draft today and I was not afraid to resign myself to the editing process. I will start by outlining my characters, and ironing out those details I lost along the way. I’ll write more on this later.
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