"A would-be novelist's desk"

Based on real events...

What's up?

What's up? A lot of things. Too many things. This is why I haven't been publishing articles on this blog for some time (though I hope you will admire my regularity in posting those weekly cartoons!).

 

As Winter Came and Went has been published. However, that doesn't mean that it can now just live it's own life: I have to work on the marketing side of the writing business and find a way of letting the wide world know that my novel is out there. And find a way of inciting the wide world to actually buy this novel (more subtly than posting BUY MY BOOK! BUY MY BOOK! on every social media I can think of).

 

I've reached (and hope to finish this month) chapter 9/13 of the sequel of As Winter Came and Went. I know that I'm making slow progress, compared to people who managed to churn out a book a year, if not most (how do they do it? If someone knows, pleeeaaase tell me!). But it's progress nonetheless. I'm eager to finish the first draft, because then I'll have something to work upon, to refine, to shape. To turn into something which I hope will be beautiful.

 

You might remember the other work in progress I already mentionned on this blog, Cinnamon (working title). I do not want this project, novel or novella, we'll see, to join the ranks of the unfinished stories that lurk in the depths of my computer or under piles and piles of paper. So maybe, once I've finished chap. 9 of the sequel, I'll work on Cinnamon, just Cinnamon, for a whole month.

 

I've also got an exciting project regarding my little cartoons. There are almost 50 of them now. 50! And it will be almost a year since I first started drawing them. So maybe, quite soon, they could be making their way into a little book... More on this in another post! 

"Writing the first draft..."

There's a reason why one of the pieces of advice given to would-be novelists is to leave their first draft rest for a few weeks before looking at it again...

"When someone tells me they can't wait to read the sequel of my novel..."

Of course, I'm overjoyed when someone tells me they want to read the sequel of my novel. But then I realise that I've got to write it (and edit it, and publish it...)... And I'm not so overjoyed... But don't worry, I'm not going to change my mind! For now at least...

"There's still a long way to go..."

That moment of exhilaration, when you've reached your goal, when you've published your book... And then you realise that if you also want to reach that elusive situation, success, the road is still very, very long, and the obstacles very, very numerous...

"I need a holiday"

"A writer's best friends"

Dogs may be Man's best friends, but a writer's best friend is certainly the cat. Even if cats take up all the room on the desk and play with the pens and like to lie down on manuscripts...