Seamus Bayne is my good friend from Viable Paradise, and occasionally my therapist. Now we shall become more: brothers either in victory or humiliation.
Seamus and I have a large corpus of work sitting around that needs to get revised and Out. The. Damn. Door. Already. I have three short stories that I have been tweaking since time out of mind, and I still have not gotten them right. I have a Very Cool Novel that was supposed to be revised and out the door about the same time Sam was born. It is still not to third draft, even after some amazing critiques with many good point by Tina Connolly and Nikki Trionfo, both spectacular writers in their own right.
Seamus and I made a pact yesterday that the short stories would be out the door and the novels would be to beta readers within one month. March 15th is the day of destiny. If I do not, I must film myself dancing to Hot Chocolate's "I Believe In Miracles."
My wife describes my dancing thus: "it's like you hate your own body."
World, I have a sacred charge not to show you such a thing. Wish me the best of luck in avoiding it.
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Woah, that's serious! Get revising, NOW
ReplyDeleteMy wife is in on the challenge to: she is drawing a picture for each day of the month, or she has to record herself reading from her seventh-grade diary.
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