My fellow Gen-Xers will get the above image from The Neverending Story (which would have also been an appropriate metaphor for this blog). So, when you ask how my book is coming along, I say it's coming along great, but what I really mean is:
I'm still trying to pry its stubborn ass out of the swamp and sometimes its nearly taking me down with it. I am progressing which is more than I can say for Atreyu and Artax (the above characters). As long as the progression continues I have hope that my book will meet a different fate than Artax (I freaking sobbed over that horse for days.) But, here's the reality: I often spend more time writing these weekly blogs than I do writing my book. At least I get the satisfaction of seeing a completed work each week. They are fun. They feel easier to me. They are familiar. And, I don't place as much weight on their existence as I do with my book. So, of course I prefer writing my blogs. Besides, often they are my therapy (relax, I do go to actual therapy too...) Gratefully, I am damn stubborn. All that to say the book will be completed. Next year? In two years? In 20? I don't know. I'd love to be finished with it by this time next year but that suction in the swamp is no joke. I keep wiggling and wigging it until one of these days it will be free. The work won't be over, I mean, I'll still have to do the clean up, but hopefully that will be less demanding. In the meantime, please enjoy these blogs and know that they are not detracting from my book, they are enhancing your experience of my book. Or so I keep telling myself.
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AuthorMelinda Lee is a mom of two adolescent boys, a devout student of all things spiritual, a recovering perfectionist, and immensely fascinated with achieving the unachievable. Currently writing a memoir about hugging strangers. Archives
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