I’ve been searching for ways to get the second draft of my book knocked out. Usually it’s “when I find time”, and this still holds true, but I will be finding more time in the next few months to actually pound this thing into submission.
With that, I think I will be posting excerpts of the book. Excerpts seem to me to be longer tracts of text, but I will be posting small ones, like a paragraph or two, or even just a sentence — they will actually be “snippets”, but I sincerely detest writing and saying that word. It might be a neat sort of way to build a popcorn trail of my work on here, of text that may or may not standalone as something coherent by itself. Words will take on whole new meanings when they are pulled from their neighbors and presented as alienated, de-contextualized (?) narratives.
And practically speaking, I have no idea if it will be of any interest at all to publishing agents (agents look for what will sell, not for what is necessarily good…not that I’m assuming my book will be any good, but I’m not writing an airport thriller here) — so this unknown blog is the only outlet to promote the thing. It makes sense to use it as such.
I will post the first excerpt in a few days. I’m not getting any younger here, but I’m also not getting any older.