Struggling with the Muse

[aadler]

9:20PM Central Afghan Time

For some reason my latest story has been fighting me. Or more probably it’s not the story, it’s just my own mood and habits. Every time I sit down to write, it goes well and easily, but I’ve had the hardest time getting myself to start; I’ll take on all kinds of tasks — valid, necessary tasks, but still excuses — to put off the actual writing.

Well, I’m getting there nonetheless. I’m past 19,000 words now, and from my internal sense of things I believe the story probably won’t run much past 22,000. I’m more hopeful now about the possibility of getting it finished before I head to Bagram to process for leave; since I compose in longhand, however, that will still leave the process of inputting what I’ve done, and printing it out for editing.

Is there anyone who might like to do a preliminary read-through, and offer commentary and possible corrections, before I’m ready to post the full work? I was a one-man show for years, but bellatemple and nwhepcat gave me valuable advance feedback while I was finalizing “Beg to Differ”. It’s made me a believer in the advantages of the approach.

I’ll probably do the flight to BAF on the 20th. Let’s see if I can have enough to look at by then.

Comments

[ludditerobot.livejournal.com]

I would love to do a readthrough.

[aadler]

Thank you, I’ll welcome your input. I just finished the story; it may be a couple of days before I’ve keyed in enough that I can get you a draft.