OldSalt: I haven't posted anything in quite a few months. Got to chapter eleven of my second, sort of novel and lost interest. If that was the case for me, any readers would really be turned off. So, instead of slogging thru it, I did what any not very serious writer would, and pursued other interests. I know, I truly deserve the righteous scorn of serious fanstory writers. But there you are. For me, writing is only a sometime hobby, that being retired and now 74, I only pursue while I'm enjoying the craft. I live in Tucson. Outside it's 104, heading for three days of 111 this weekend. I did play a round of golf this morning. The trick is to forget about the heat and drape a towel soaked in ice water around your neck between holes. Works pretty well. But the afternoons find me a captive of my air-conditioned living room, and afternoon TV is a never and a no-no, so I read the really good mystery writers like Michael Connelly and Lee Child. Which gets me to thinking, I really ought to finish chapter eleven of Joyride to Hellhole, the itch to put some words on paper. So now it's done and I'm going to post it, for better or worse. After all, still got a couple of months left on my first year trial membership in the Fanstory clan. Have met some nice people, in a virtual sense, and that has been the best part of membership. Week later: well I posted it and received some pretty harsh critiques. Like I said, not my day job, so first just shrugged it off. Part of the game. Then I decided to rewrite it from a different character's POV. An attempt to address several of the criticisms. Maybe an improvement, maybe not. |
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