I am in the process of writing a story. Or a book. I guess a book. I just finished the writing and have edited it three times. It's a (barely) fictionalized memoir of my time with the young man who lived with me for two summers and how I tried hard to save him but in the end learned you can only save yourself.
I love this story but I know I'm too close to it so I keep stepping away and then coming back. This afternoon I thought to myself, "my eyes have read these words too many times and I need to find a reader who will be brutal with it."
I have no idea what to do with it now. So it sits in my google drive and I drink tea and watch the waning light of this January afternoon pass into dusk.
Did you see that Mrs S advertised his manuscript assessment service on social media this morning? I don't take things as signs, but ...
ReplyDeleteI don't take things as signs either except that I do! (read the header...)
DeletePS. I've just noticed your heading for your blogroll. I am honoured to be called a "Writer Friend."
ReplyDeleteDid you happen to see the former Mrs. Slocombe's advertising for manuscript-reading work? It's not without cost, but here is a website: https://www.peterkenneally.com.au.
ReplyDeleteI thought I'd commented on this. Or maybe I did elsewhere? (About Mrs S's manuscript review service?) Anyway, great job on completing it. Now is the hard work of sending it out in the ether.
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ReplyDeleteWow, what an accomplishment! Fingers crossed an astute publisher picks it up.
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