Delectable Sentences

My short term goal is to get something, anything published. I keep sending off my short stories and novelettes, but so far, nobody seems interested. Long term, I would love to see a whole line of books that chronicles the End Age timeline, and maybe even some surrounding the stories of Nagelum and Ozzob.

I want to build the name recognition, to have some level of success. I really don’t care about the money, I just want to see my stuff in real-world print. I don’t mind doing the work, and therein lies the problem, I look at the writing like its work. I enjoy creating stories and spinning together the character arcs, but my brain looks at the actual writing and editing of prose like its work.

I guess my thing is motivation. I need more of it, or I need to redirect what I have to my writing. I want to put down more words per day, I just don’t seem to ever get it accomplished. I need to put to work some of my willpower and make myself write a word quota everyday, but that doesn’t work for me. I’m an obsessive compulsive, I focus on one thing until its completely exhausted, and then move on to the next. So when I do write, I get like 20,000 words in a week.

Distractions are the bane of my writing. I have to many and I love them. Is that a bad thing? I don’t ever want to get burnt out on the writing like I have with some other things. So while some of my other activities do detract from my writing time, there not really a bad thing are they? I clearly need to do more thinking about my goals and whats realistic.

I have so many story ideas I can’t get them all down on a give day. I already have more outlines than I will be able to finish in the next few years. Like I alluded to earlier, I love to make the story concepts, writing them is like a grind right now… My immediate goal is to finish 5-6 novelette length End Age stories from the Domination Era and shop them around to various agents as a compilation novel. I have Resources, Vacation, and Stranglehold finished. Contact and Infiltrator are outlined, but Contact is futuristic sport centric and may be short, so I may do another sport related one.