#AmWriting

Hashtag Am Writing ... and loving it.

This yarn is finally spinning itself. After seven years and four months from its initial conception, this baby is 17,933 words into its new form. Sure, I've thrown several false starts into the trash, sure, for years I wasn't sure from which side of the field I wanted to enter this game, but now, this first draft is a keeper -- and I no longer have to worry about what side of the field I'm coming in on, because this monster is pulling me onto the field. I'm not carrying it on and creating the players and scenarios.

The players and scenarios are creating themselves -- I'm just following behind like Nabokov famously wrote ... taking notes.

Since pinterest is one of the most popular sites on the web right now, and a lot of writers are using it to supplement and promote their books, I almost went ahead and created a page for this WIP, but I decided against it after reading some concerns some pretty savvy people have had regarding the site's TOS -- and how the place can potentially rob you blind or get you sued.

So, for now, no pinterest for this WIP, but I do like the idea of a site to supplement the work. The main problem I see though is that the web is so dynamic that sites (and especially pages within sites) come and go so quickly that most of the pages I had bookmarked in October of 2004 (when I first conceived this work) have vanished. I was smart enough at the time to save the pages as offline files but even those files aren't easy to read with current browsers!

If I create something on mikeduron.com, it'll be self-contained and not linking to any external sites unless I absolutely have to do so. I'll see what happens with that, but, right now, I'm just very happy this story is coming along so nicely.