100 Things #87 Let it Go
Nov. 4th, 2014 11:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jana_denardoNo I'm not going to break out into the Frozen soundtrack but this post is about letting it go.
It is very hard sometimes to let your novel/novella/short story go. You keep fine tuning it. Sometimes you outright ignore it. Sometimes things spin out of your control. But finally I have let Soldiers of the Sun go. A full ten months behind schedule. Some of it I have a good reason for. The spring was taken up by promoting my novel, Kept Tears and novella, If Two of Them Are Dead and finishing a professional paper for work.
Then I had rotator cuff surgery and my mom's health took a downswing. It was a hard, pain-filled summer and for months I couldn't sit up at the computer for long and I was staying with my parents for my recovery and frankly that didn't leave a lot of time. Also I had to spent what computer time my arm could endure remaking a class I haven't taught in five years. If anyone thinks teaching is easy, they're wrong. It's suprisingly time-intensive.
A new horrible schedule at the college ate away more time and frankly so did my own foolishness (looking at you computer games) played a role but finally I got it to where holding onto it no longer made sense. Yes I'm insecure about parts of it (Maybe I should have cut more sex scenes. Maybe I should have done this and not that with my villains etc) but I think it's a good, solid novel and I hope everyone else likes it.
I couldn't have gotten it to where I did without my friends. They know who they are. Thank you. If Dreamspinner picks up Soldiers of the Sun it is in no small part thanks to you.
And since this is about demon hunters, maybe instead of luck, I can borrow a line from Buffy Summers 'Wish me monsters.'
It is very hard sometimes to let your novel/novella/short story go. You keep fine tuning it. Sometimes you outright ignore it. Sometimes things spin out of your control. But finally I have let Soldiers of the Sun go. A full ten months behind schedule. Some of it I have a good reason for. The spring was taken up by promoting my novel, Kept Tears and novella, If Two of Them Are Dead and finishing a professional paper for work.
Then I had rotator cuff surgery and my mom's health took a downswing. It was a hard, pain-filled summer and for months I couldn't sit up at the computer for long and I was staying with my parents for my recovery and frankly that didn't leave a lot of time. Also I had to spent what computer time my arm could endure remaking a class I haven't taught in five years. If anyone thinks teaching is easy, they're wrong. It's suprisingly time-intensive.
A new horrible schedule at the college ate away more time and frankly so did my own foolishness (looking at you computer games) played a role but finally I got it to where holding onto it no longer made sense. Yes I'm insecure about parts of it (Maybe I should have cut more sex scenes. Maybe I should have done this and not that with my villains etc) but I think it's a good, solid novel and I hope everyone else likes it.
I couldn't have gotten it to where I did without my friends. They know who they are. Thank you. If Dreamspinner picks up Soldiers of the Sun it is in no small part thanks to you.
And since this is about demon hunters, maybe instead of luck, I can borrow a line from Buffy Summers 'Wish me monsters.'
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