Notes on Re-Reading a month of my Writing.

As I slowly re-read The nap Story/The Sleepist/The nap Project/Nano 2017…whatever I was going to call it…I think about how I could steer these words I’ve written, what kind of story they could be if only I could understand what kind of story this is. Is it a comedy? An X-File??? (Kudos to the reader who filed my last book into the “Medical Thriller genre) Could this mess ever become a sensible narrative?

I think about how some of this does in fact work pretty well. There are whole pages and paragraphs and words that I actually enjoy reading back. And then there are a whole lot of words and crap that I just want to cut out, but I am making myself go through the whole story first before I do any such thing.

And then I think about my idea to completely rewrite the whole damn thing…yeah, I really don’t want to do that…

And then I reach the inescapable conclusion: short of just letting it go and never touching it again, this novel is going to be a lot of work. And I guess that’s ok.

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