I'm kicking the fiction-writing into high gear, partly due to the fact that I have a novel-writing class that starts on July 12th—and partly due to my very best critic (Attila the Hub) expressing an interest in seeing the manuscript at this point. (He hasn't looked at it in three years.)

"But it sucks," I tell him. "You don't want to read it."

"The sooner you finish it, the sooner you can get rid of it. It's a good thing, to hate your project."

Perhaps. It all depends on whether one wants to creep out from under the rock one lives under. [Insert exoskeletal reference here.]

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1 I'm thankful that in LMA-speak, light blogging means more posts than the recent norm. Keep 'em coming!

Posted by: Darrell at July 04, 2006 07:21 AM (4YZrP)

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Posted by: Attila Girl at July 04, 2006 10:29 AM (4IuF2)

3 Paraphrasing a famous saying, "It's better to have finished writing a novel that sucks than never to have finished a novel at all". Besides, look in bookstores. Lots of sucky things get published, thanks to lots of sucky agents and editors. Lots of sucky people out there are easily influenced. Go for it. Let me know when you're rich, and I'll send a bill for this bit of author psychology. Thank you. We appreciate your business.

Posted by: clyde at July 05, 2006 02:57 AM (6m+7s)

4 Two words: cat mysteries.

Posted by: Attila Girl at July 05, 2006 03:52 AM (4IuF2)

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