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 | C. Dennis Moore Horror Has A New Home |
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Well. Still no new words on THE EVOLUTION OF ELI. I spent this morning querying over seemingly lost submissions instead. I had a couple that went out forever ago and it's way past time to check up on them. Unfortuantely, I think that might only be part of the reason I haven't worked on it in longer than I like.
ELI isn't like most of the other stuff I've written. It's still very much speculative, but the setting in this first part is so far outside my comfort zone, it's hindering my ability to get too far into it too quickly. Usually when I'm working on something I really like, I tend to immerse myself in it and when I sit down to work on it, I'm looking around in wonder at the entire thing. But with ELI, it's far enough outside what I do, I'm not getting that wide-eyed wonder feeling. Instead, I very much feel like an observer. I'm recording what I see and, being first person, I can sort of put myself into the story better, but I still don't feel as much a part of it as I usually do when it's something I'm more comfortable with. A monster story or a haunted house story, sure thing, but this novel is so different. I sometimes find myself wondering if it's the thing I should be working on, but at the end of the day, I do love this story and want to tell it. But the part of me that wants to feel like I'm really a part of the story wants to work on something else, something more familiar. But that's not exactly going to get THIS novel written, now is it?
I'm not working on anything else, I'm going to find my comfort zone and I'm going to write this novel. That's just all there is to it. It just might not be as smooth a sail as I'd hoped. And I may procrastinate here and there with business stuff like submissions and whatnot. But, hey, that stuff's gotta get done, too, right? |
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