Find below the introduction from each of this week’s PureSchmaltz postings. I’ve linked each title back to its original story. Thank you for following me on this journey!
The eleventh installment in this series found me railing against SelfReliance.
" … a lesson which I never expect to stop learning."
The twelfth installment in this series found me engaging with Publishing's UnwieldyMachine. It sometimes demands mindfulness that's downright mind-numbing.
"We're none of us terribly efficient."
The thirteenth installment in this series found me considering copyrights and CopyWrongs.
" … tend to default to their Bastard setting unless questioned …"
The fourteenth installment in this series found me *FeedingSystems, a necessary distraction from writing if I intend to engage in Publishing. This story proved the most popular in this period.
" … necessary effort …"
The fifteenth installment in this series found me Grooving. I have finally found a manuscript assembly process with which I might be able to live!
"The journey, not the arriving, might just be the purpose here after all."
The sixteenth installment in this series found me describing Publishing as eradicating PastSins.
"A writer's work never gets done."
The seventeenth and last installment in this series this week found me RabbitHoling, completing final, final, final edits before finally Publishing, preparing a surprisingly attractive corpse for burial.
" … yet still enormously proud."
Every week seems to resolve its initiating dilemma. I began this week wrestling with the old Self-Reliance demon and ended it Rabbit Holing after facing down another Unwieldy Machine. I struggled with copyediting and explaining Copywrongs while Feeding yet another in an endless stream of hungry Systems. I found my Groove, though, and set about dispatching PastSins just as if someone else had committed them. I end this writing week still very much Rabbit Holing. If I sincerely dedicate myself to finishing manuscripts, which means spending twenty hours doing nothing but that each week, I might complete the effort in as little as twenty-two weeks. I will not, of course, dedicate myself to that extent, so my backlog’s still infinite. At least I’m finally finding enjoyment in this Publishing work, thanks to this week’s revelations!
Thank you for following along!