They say if you love someone, set them free. If they come back, you better have a basement to put them up in until they truly get on their own feet. That applies to writing, too. I’ve worked and reworked Soho, and while it is an entirely different chapter than it was previously, there’s still something less than perfect about it, something to do with my arriving in Dhahran the following day that just doesn’t quite do it for me. So I’ve decided to let go of the chapter and move forward to the next project chapter oddly titled, “Blind Man’s Bluff.”<\/p>\n
One thing I thought of last night was the need to mature the writing as it progresses. In looking over what I’ve written, I’d already taken care of that aspect early on – bravo (even if I do say so myself – lol).<\/p>\n
I’ve also decided to be even more honest in these later chapters. I’ve discovered there are a lot of people I knew from then still very active on the net, and many of them have been very helpful. As a reaction to that I changed the tone, elevating the positives and ignoring how I truly felt. I’ve decided to go back to what I originally felt at the time. This will not cast a negative light on others – it will impact only me, and that’s because of how I viewed the world at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
They say if you love someone, set them free. If they come back, you better have a basement to put them up in until they truly get on their own feet. That applies to writing, too. I’ve worked and reworked … Continue reading