My fairly regular posting schedule here at RAMH — averaging a post a day — is about to run off the rails.
This is a good thing, as it happens. See, I’m just about ready to start spending my morning writing sessions in writing, all over again, the book I refer to as my Work In Progress. Since August or so, I’ve been plowing through the three earlier drafts (written over the course of almost 15 years) — getting my head wrapped around the characters, and the twisty plot, and the background (real) history and how the WIP’s story line weaves in and out of it, and… and… and…
Now the time has come to put aside the tools of critical reader, of careful researcher (if you will) into the mysteries of a story much of which I’d forgotten. It’s time to face again a blank screen, tremble just a bit, and start hammering at the keyboard.
I’ll still be posting here, from time to time. In the first place, I’ve still got something like a couple dozen draft posts in the pipeline (including one to appear later today), and plenty of ideas for others. And, for sure, I’ll continue to post the Friday whiskey river-driven meditations. For those of you with blogs of your own, I’ll still be stopping by to lob comments over your transoms. And for those of you on Facebook (and, to a lesser extent, on Twitter), I’ll still be around there as well.
Finally, I’ve done this kind of thing often enough that I know I will need distraction every now and then.
But, well, duty beckons. :)
8 responses so far ↓
1 Tessa // Mar 9, 2009 at 11:08 am
Good for you, John. (And don;t forget my signed first edition …) Will miss you, but will also be rooting for the grand opus.
2 John // Mar 9, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Tessa: I’ve already got your mailing label printed. :) And don’t worry, I won’t be a stranger — I’ve still got Nuts and Mutton bookmarked in my feed reader!
3 Jolie // Mar 9, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Hey, this IS a good thing! Have fun with it.
4 Sprizouse // Mar 9, 2009 at 4:16 pm
I stopped posting to the blog a few months back because of the WIP… in the end, the WIP is more important.
5 John // Mar 10, 2009 at 10:46 am
THANKS, Jolie!
Sprizouse: I wondered where you’d wandered off to; hadn’t even seen comments from you on places like Nathan’s and Moonrat’s blogs. So glad to hear it’s for a WIP, and hope it’s going well!
6 marta // Mar 10, 2009 at 11:50 pm
Go write. Always go write.
7 Jules // Mar 11, 2009 at 10:58 am
Yes, good for you, but glad you’ll still be blogging some. Break a leg with the WIP!
8 John // Mar 11, 2009 at 12:13 pm
marta: Easier said than done, maybe — but I’m trying! (And greatly enjoying the effort (he said with a conspiratorial whisper; this isn’t supposed to be enjoyable).)
Jules: Definitely not turning into a pumpkin here. And I’ve got splint and plaster at the ready.
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