Mega project is done and now in the ongoing forever stage. I have vacay-ed and rested. And this week, I resume work on Those Strange Women #4… by first re-reading Books 1-3 all over again because even the most excited of authors can forget what they once wrote (old age is going to be so fun).
I’m back
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Welcome back! I’m so glad to hear you took some time for yourself. Also I would be very interested to know what you think of your own novels as you reread them. Did parts of them make you cringe, were there parts you really enjoyed? Did parts of them make you think, wow, what a great twist or plot device, I wish I’d thought of that, oh wait, I DID.
My concern with doing that is that I might end up sounding like one of those parents who think their kids are the smartest, cutest, most perfect beings around while everybody else smiles politely and notices how varied human perspectives are. Some thoughts we should just leave in our heads maybe.
Despite a shared language, the cultural divide between you and me is vast and startling. Corporate capitalist culture is so saturated in the United States that we’re taught to sell ourselves constantly, to employers, friends, and even potential mates. Not that there’s anything inherently wrong with that, there are entire fan conventions in this country whose sole purpose is to listen to creatives tell us how great they are, but sometimes I wax nostalgically about how modesty is kind of a lost art. I admit I’m probably alone among my peers on that subject. Also I should note that medieval social mores regarded pridefulness as a sin and usually led to a beating unless you were an aristocrat and your social position was chosen by God, so I’m probably guilty of romanticizing the past again.
Haha well the country I’m in was not invited to the US Democracy Summit so I guess that could be why I’m not loud and proud all the time. That and/or maybe childhood trauma. It’s hard to say. I think in the future (like far future), I might want to hire a US-personality book/author marketer/publicist or something to make up for all that I can’t figure out how to do. Lemme know if you know someone.