Omissions and Corrections

My typical writing environment while working on Stay In The Magic

My blog has been greatly neglected over the previous nine or so months, the reason being, I have been writing a book. I thought I would have been done by now, but here on my third draft, I start to wonder if I’ll ever finish. Well, I will, and it should now be sooner rather than later. After this reworking I will hand the manuscript over to one person and from her suggestions and corrections, I will take one more “final” pass, and then it is out of my hands.

Today’s photo shows what I stared at the first seven months of 2011, papers spread out before me with passages yet to be written, or a page getting a rewrite. Now I am trying to bring closure so I can move on to new projects. When this process does come to an end, I will miss more than a few baristas from my local Starbucks. As an aside between crafting words, I would eavesdrop on customers. If only I was a fiction writer, these folks can break the worst case of writer’s block with their nutty characters and dramatic issues.

I don’t know if I’ll ever attempt to write a book for the general public again, this is time-consuming and often frustrating. On the other hand, it is with amazement that from time to time I come back upon a passage that delights me and I am in near disbelief that the words captured on the paper fell out of my head and into my hand.

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