March 17, 2021
Day 163, Week 23
- Words: 83,759 (12,571 revised out)
- Revised Chapters: 23
- Ego Size: Clementine
- Emotional State: A meh writer
The AE had her sticky little fingers in my manuscript, so I stopped revising it. And instead, I wrote a few blog posts and focused on social media promotion. The good news is that on Saturday, when I couldn’t touch my manuscript, I really wanted to write and ended up doing some blog posts.
And the reason that is good news is that I always wanted to be a writer, but I never wrote. To the point that my husband once said, “But you’re not a writer,” which was correct at the time. But now I can actually say I AM A WRITER. I like to write every morning, whether that’s a blog, part of my book, or other stuff – I’ve finally gotten to where I always wanted to be, regardless of whether my book publishes or not.
The current plan is to publish. And with that, I’m on the publishing phase of my program. Meetings are starting – at weird times – and I’m expecting any day to see my ugly promo video come in and have to build out the pre-sale campaign.
But that is not why I’m in my current emotional state. I’ve realized, having had a little free time to read other books recently, that I don’t do descriptive storytelling well. And my MC isn’t nearly as funny as I want to her to be. So maybe I’m not funny. But could I do much better on description? Maybe.
I’ve looked at exercises online and I just…can’t. It’s just not fun, but I want to improve, so I need to improve. My current plan is to think my book is going to be meh, but engaging enough so that I can do better in book 2.
But I don’t want it to be. So maybe revision 2 will be all about adding in all that lovely goodness that I want in my book, but that is not in my book. Or maybe not.
In other news, I’ve created a brand new website! SEO blog tagging is painful, especially when you have over 90 blog posts to do. And now I’m worried that the 22 followers of this blog won’t move over to that one and I’d lose all of them…and have to start again right before my pre-sale campaign goes live.
So, I might have two blogs running at the same time, posting the same content on both…or not.
I think have some decisions to make. Just like my MC in my book. Crap. Don’t you just hate when fiction and reality collide?