Sorry, but with last week's Nebula in San Jose and seemingly endless SFWA Board meetings, dealing with all the financials, and with Balticon staring me in the face, I have not had time to write a lenghty blog piece this week nor, to be honest, write ANYTHING on the multiple projects I have open, the novel being the top one and the delay is making me crazy.
When I started writing it was nothing to crank out story on a weekend and then spend a year going editor to editor to find a market. As I grew more accomplished I took a bit longer to complete a story and only spent half a year before running out of editors, mostly because so many magazines failed in that period of my career. Much later (some say too late) I became conscious of style and started taking a bit more care, a bit more time to compose and finish a story.
So much of my perception of methods and pace derived from writing short stories quickly and getting to sale or rejection faster. I've tried a few novels but they were done quickly and usually I felt so bad about them that I never marketed them to publishers. I'm starting to wonder if I am too impatient a writer to endure the long slog a decent novel requires.
But on Monday all this will be behind me and I can settle down to writing once again.
When I started writing it was nothing to crank out story on a weekend and then spend a year going editor to editor to find a market. As I grew more accomplished I took a bit longer to complete a story and only spent half a year before running out of editors, mostly because so many magazines failed in that period of my career. Much later (some say too late) I became conscious of style and started taking a bit more care, a bit more time to compose and finish a story.
So much of my perception of methods and pace derived from writing short stories quickly and getting to sale or rejection faster. I've tried a few novels but they were done quickly and usually I felt so bad about them that I never marketed them to publishers. I'm starting to wonder if I am too impatient a writer to endure the long slog a decent novel requires.
But on Monday all this will be behind me and I can settle down to writing once again.
I'm glad you remembered which weekend Balticon was scheduled for, because it was a pleasure to see you again and spend panel time with you, as well as getting the chance to talk with you later.
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