Daniel Quentin Steele
Frank, the short answer is I don't really know.
The long answer is that my schedule calls for me to finish it before the end of March. I've set deadlines for myself before and they haven't worked. BUT - I've been sitting on this for nearly a year and it's driving me crazy/ I've always been fairly fast at fiction - a hell of a lot faster at non-fiction - And When We Were Married (WWWM) has always been easy to write -one of the easiest things I've ever done. I've never agonized over it. I'm agonizing right now. "The Past Never Dies" was coming along fairly well until I ran into the Roadblock from Hell. I pretty much write from my gut and I wrote myself into a Writers Block. I came up with an idea that transforms the entire series - past and present and future. It doesn't change anything that has happened, but it changes everything. I want to write this thing because it is beautiful, it's moving and it takes the story out 40 years. But something inside me is balking. I don't even know exactly why. But, I haven't written more than a few words in months.I was up to 65000 words and hit the block.
STILL...if I have to tear out 10,000 words and start over at that point I will because I have to.
I was sending out a newsletter in 2012 or 2013 and ran into problems with AOL. Plus I didn't really have any news I could give to the people who'd been following the story on Literotica and then in ebooks. I wasn't doing much. I came to an understanding with AOL and I'm cleared to resume the newsletter, so I will try to start it up in late February or early March. I had 2000+ readers and once I've apologized to the 500+ new people that have asked me what's happening, the newsletter will grow. Which is to say that I will try to honestly let readers like you know what's happening with WWWM and some other things I will be doing.
I will finish WWWM Book 4 and maybe #5 this year. It has amazed me the past two years that readers continue to email me asking about WWWM. It's the greatest compliment any writer can ever receive. I am grateful.
The long answer is that my schedule calls for me to finish it before the end of March. I've set deadlines for myself before and they haven't worked. BUT - I've been sitting on this for nearly a year and it's driving me crazy/ I've always been fairly fast at fiction - a hell of a lot faster at non-fiction - And When We Were Married (WWWM) has always been easy to write -one of the easiest things I've ever done. I've never agonized over it. I'm agonizing right now. "The Past Never Dies" was coming along fairly well until I ran into the Roadblock from Hell. I pretty much write from my gut and I wrote myself into a Writers Block. I came up with an idea that transforms the entire series - past and present and future. It doesn't change anything that has happened, but it changes everything. I want to write this thing because it is beautiful, it's moving and it takes the story out 40 years. But something inside me is balking. I don't even know exactly why. But, I haven't written more than a few words in months.I was up to 65000 words and hit the block.
STILL...if I have to tear out 10,000 words and start over at that point I will because I have to.
I was sending out a newsletter in 2012 or 2013 and ran into problems with AOL. Plus I didn't really have any news I could give to the people who'd been following the story on Literotica and then in ebooks. I wasn't doing much. I came to an understanding with AOL and I'm cleared to resume the newsletter, so I will try to start it up in late February or early March. I had 2000+ readers and once I've apologized to the 500+ new people that have asked me what's happening, the newsletter will grow. Which is to say that I will try to honestly let readers like you know what's happening with WWWM and some other things I will be doing.
I will finish WWWM Book 4 and maybe #5 this year. It has amazed me the past two years that readers continue to email me asking about WWWM. It's the greatest compliment any writer can ever receive. I am grateful.
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