I gotta write another book. My first two are shit. They’re barely books, but hell I guess I did it. The first one’s a cheat of sorts. I know I’ve spoken on this before of course. but it’s just a combination of blog posts peppered with a few short stories, let’s be honest. The second I wrote when i was bored formatting and proofing the first, in 3 days perhaps. I called it a novel, but by definition and word count it’s a novella. I think you need to hit 50k for it to officially be a novel. But Bukowski’s Post Office was under 40 and it’s considered a novel. So I went out to beat him.

That one was my first attempt at a long form narrative. It has no real plot though and it’s weak. It’s simply vignettes of a guy’s fictionalized escapades. But hey, it happened and it’s out there. I also wrote it in 3 days. It was so quick because I’m usually motivated while I’m supposed to be doing work, but AT work, when I was supposed to be formatting the first which I didn’t want to do, so I doubled down on my aversion to things I don’t want to do and wrote some more. I fooled myself into it as well as it was originally supposed to be a short story, so I go about things that way.

At any rate, I’ve come up with another idea, but it’s a bit more of an undertaking and I haven’t been inspired or excited to really get into it, although it’s started. It’s changed a bit in concept, but I still think it could be good as a book. I think it’d fill one too with ease once I hash it out. I suppose I should put together an outline and timeline for finishing acts and drafts. I should. It’s quite a story full of detail and ideas. But everyone’s got that. Not many have the execution. I guess I do, don’t I? I put forth the effort to put out the last two. Formatting and proofing for no money, doing it DIY was the roughest part. It’s not hard, only time consuming. But the end result is the payoff so that’s the incentive.