Another Update
So, revisions on Pivot have paused or ended for the time being, as the book is beginning its travel around to an agent and/or agents. I am not sure what to expect, but I am hopeful.
Meanwhile, I have finished the first draft of a novel completely unrelated to the Pivot-verse. I have taken a week or two off from it to get some distance, and then I'll return to it for some necessary revising and editing.
I also have an idea for another novel that I have been toying around with. I've been trying to figure out how to sink my teeth into it. It's interesting how a truly evil character cannot be the main character for a novel. An evil character has to have something redeeming if he or she is going to be the protagonist. I'm trying to figure out if this character will indeed have something redeeming and, if not, what I will do.
Sometimes, I am irritated with how long it takes to write a novel. There is a quote that goes, "Vita brevis, ars prolixa." Chaucer translates it to, "The life so short, the craft so long to learn." That is how I feel.
I have been observing a class at a local university and teaching a few classes at a local community college. That gives me a break from my writing. Well, a break from my fiction writing. Summer will be arriving soon, though. I am thinking about traveling to Budapest. =)
On a completely different note...
Unfortunately, this week I had to put Inga, my cat of 17 years, down. Her kidney disease, which started last year, had progressed to the point that it was impossible to help her for a permanent length of time.
Inga was born from a stray we took in when I was about 10 or 11. I have owned her since she was a kitten. She was the first of the litter to learn how to growl (and she freaked out all the other kittens). She was the first to jump over the wall we had in place to keep the kittens in the bathroom. She was always sassy. In her younger days, she hunted mice and rabbits. In her older days she followed me 24/7. She always ran to me when I came home from school or work. She slept beside me every night.
I was there with her the whole way yesterday. I loved her very much, and I am going to miss her. She was very special to me.
It's times like these that I'm reminded of what is really important in life.
Meanwhile, I have finished the first draft of a novel completely unrelated to the Pivot-verse. I have taken a week or two off from it to get some distance, and then I'll return to it for some necessary revising and editing.
I also have an idea for another novel that I have been toying around with. I've been trying to figure out how to sink my teeth into it. It's interesting how a truly evil character cannot be the main character for a novel. An evil character has to have something redeeming if he or she is going to be the protagonist. I'm trying to figure out if this character will indeed have something redeeming and, if not, what I will do.
Sometimes, I am irritated with how long it takes to write a novel. There is a quote that goes, "Vita brevis, ars prolixa." Chaucer translates it to, "The life so short, the craft so long to learn." That is how I feel.
I have been observing a class at a local university and teaching a few classes at a local community college. That gives me a break from my writing. Well, a break from my fiction writing. Summer will be arriving soon, though. I am thinking about traveling to Budapest. =)
On a completely different note...
Unfortunately, this week I had to put Inga, my cat of 17 years, down. Her kidney disease, which started last year, had progressed to the point that it was impossible to help her for a permanent length of time.
Inga was born from a stray we took in when I was about 10 or 11. I have owned her since she was a kitten. She was the first of the litter to learn how to growl (and she freaked out all the other kittens). She was the first to jump over the wall we had in place to keep the kittens in the bathroom. She was always sassy. In her younger days, she hunted mice and rabbits. In her older days she followed me 24/7. She always ran to me when I came home from school or work. She slept beside me every night.
I was there with her the whole way yesterday. I loved her very much, and I am going to miss her. She was very special to me.
It's times like these that I'm reminded of what is really important in life.
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Jul 15, 2015 05:58PM
You entitled Pivot as the 1st book of the trilogy. When, if ever, are you going to write the 2nd and 3rd books of the trilogy?
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