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Post by Warrior of Aror on Jun 8, 2018 14:55:48 GMT
3rd draft DONE.
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Post by Dmitri Pendragon on Jun 9, 2018 4:38:30 GMT
CONGRATULATIONS!
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Post by Lylyss on Jun 9, 2018 7:44:12 GMT
WARRIOR! CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE DONE A THING!
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on Jun 9, 2018 12:12:29 GMT
Congrats! What's next?
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Post by Warrior of Aror on Jun 9, 2018 16:07:39 GMT
Thanks all! Leilani Sunblade Type it up (I wrote it mostly by hand), print it out and put it in a drawer (also let some friends read it), take it out of the drawer three weeks later and edit it.
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on Jun 10, 2018 12:09:07 GMT
Ah, good plan!
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Post by Warrior of Aror on Nov 8, 2019 18:06:07 GMT
17 months have come and slipped away on the wind since I heralded the completion of the third draft. Now, old and grizzled, weary of the world and self-critical, I see the plans I laid were laid on shifting gravels.
Alas, three weeks became a year and a half. This month marks the fourth year since the advent of this novel. It is not yet finished. I question if I've strayed too far from this project that I love to be able to finish it with the care and intention that it deserves.
"But," comes a call to my heart in the silence. "You tell stories for the hope that they may bring delight: warmth to cold embers, a voice to forsaken places, light to those on stormy seas. You do this in the chance that it may be there for others who need to know they are not alone, nor without hope. You do this to bring beauty to one who has forgotten it, truth to one who has rejected it, and goodness to a soul which hungers for it. But the first of these works is for you. The stories you tell are so that you might remind yourself of the hope yourself, for it is you who needs to hear it most. The story is a stone of reminder: Don't forget the hope."
I don't want to ever again lose the joy of stories, reading or writing them. Once in a while I just have to point myself back to a remembrance of what makes them so good.
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