Almost there!

After a year's work, my book, The Fingerprint of Jack, is almost through the editing process.  My two gracious editors gave lots of comments and now I am in the process of polishing.   The next step will be to have five lucky people read it from start to finish...  Those who find the five golden tickets in chocolate bars will have the honor of reading my book...

No, sorry, not really... I was just having a Willy Wonka moment.   The five people have already been selected.

After that, I have no idea...  Amazon offers print-on-demand and direct to Kindle.  I've been reading about other authors who have chosen this route and they were not dissappointed...

Whatever route, I am excited!    Plus, the next book is under way... Sam and Mrs. Steers travel back in time to see...  Well, you'll have to wait and see...

New York City!

There is nothing like being 10 feet aware from Alan Rickman!  I saw the most riveting play called Seminar while I was in New York City.  Absolutely riveting!  The play centers around a group of writers who enroll in a private seminar with Leonard (played by Rickman), who is a well-known writer who has fallen from grace.   Each students presents their writings to the group who in turn critics them.  Leonard is the most critical.  I almost saw it again.   It gave me lots to ponder about writing.  But overall, it was just RIVETING!

While in NYC, I wrote one short story in long-hand, so it will be a week before I get my scribblings into a word-format to post.   How about a piano teacher who kills her students for simply hitting a wrong note...

I also had time to ponder two multi-part questions:  

What is a writer and when does one become a writer?   When you write something?  Or when you get published?  Who decides if you are a good writer?  How do you know if you are a good or bad writer?   Is it based on your choice of words?  Sentence structure?  Ability to tell a good story?   Keep the reader's interest?

What is the role of an editor?   Are they allowed to take your work and rework so that it sounds better?  If so, based on whose opinion?   Theirs?   If they do that, does it matter whether you are a good writer or not and it's all idea based?

Writing, editing, and find a place

I just re-read part 1 and 2 of my short story, The Witch Tale.  I found it interesting that I let myself go crazy and into dark places.   Cutting out someone's heart!   Really!   That's like Hannibal Lecture level stuff.   Although, I have no regrets about writing it.   And I also feel like my stress level had gone down.  

My personal thoughts are that I have found something that I can do to let my creativity go wild as well as letting go and lower my stress.   I finished parts 3 and 4/the ending.   These will be posted this week.

I was just telling my co-worker, Ann, that I can't write fast enough.   Now, I have lots of ideas for stories and I can't write fast enough.

Anyway, thanks for taking some time to read this.   I know that everyone is busy with so many other things that making choices is necessary.     Keep watching/reading -- I will be posting the first chapter of my book, The Fingerprint of Jack, very soon.