Okay well that officially removes all excuses. I haven’t been active on this blog for nearly a year, mostly because I haven’t been confident enough with what I have had goin on in my life to publish it. Well, that’s changing whether due to an upswing in goings on or a down swing in self consciousness, time will tell I suppose.
Currently I am in a hotel bed avoiding the hours of tossing and turning sure to come. So why the blogsurgence? I’ve finally accepted that I don’t truly want to be an artist. Well not in the visual art sense. I would still love to learn more about digital illustration but the fact is whenever I paint/draw I get the feeling I want to be doing something else… Namely? Finishing my novel. So it stands to reason that my short lived stint at EC was probably the most productive time in terms of writing my book. Now I am on my final edit I can finally get some perspective on it and recognize against my nature that I have created something to be truly proud of.
That said, there is still a lot of work to do. It’s pretty hard to sell a 150,000 word novel, which means it’s time to get out the machete and start hacking until everything that remains is perfectly pruned with no unsightly off shooting branches.
Soooo what this means is that this blog will be getting an overhaul with some new writer-y themed swag, more info on my book, and whatever else comes to mind once I have my computer in front of me once more. I miss it almost as much as my cats, and I miss them almost as much as my bf… Oh who am I kidding I miss them just as much if not more than my bf which isn’t to downplay his importance so much as inflate theirs.
Right now I’m at the Surrey International Writers Conference, which is a huge part of why I am revisiting this blog. According to just about everyone here, I can’t avoid shameless self promotion forever so I would rather get some practice in and get the habit going now rather than later when people may actually want to visit my site.
This is not to say that my book will be a success or even be picked up by a publisher, but if there is one thing I know from all my many failu…ahem life lessons, it’s that preparing for failure is hardly the way to succeed. Maybe if I do fail this blog will seem sort of sad and delusional, but ah screw it, I’ll take the risk. More to come on the conference and the many awesome speakers I’ve had the delight of seeing thus far, plus a sneak peek at my work in the spirit of the book readings I’ve been privy to these last few days!
