My new MP4 player works GRRRREAT! In fact, I plugged it into the speakers that usually power the sat-lite and listened to 473 songs all night. It was splendid. I woke up this morning and jumped right into 800+ words in SEEKING LIGHT AURORA and then spent the rest of the morning [between work] editing the next scene in THE PREPARATION. My task software is always working as it should be, and I got done today two tasks that have been haunting me for at least a month or more. They are done - just like that - and both will literally revolutionize how I conduct business.
I was thinking today about how much writing and developing a writing career is a long-distance race. There is no hurrying it - no rushing [even Hocking talks about how her new success may seem quick but underneath that success, supporting it, are years of effort and work]. I'm excited for probably the first time since I started writing. I have a fighting chance. The process is about as flat and approachable, and scalable, as it could ever get. It is wonderful to be a writer in this age we live in. Of course, unless you had wild success in the old system, then I could see how it would be difficult.
For unknowns like me, though, who have nothing to lose, it is a beacon of hope. Never again, at worst, will our writing languish in the darkness of our own minds or hard drives. No. We will write now, and the world will see it. They may not like it - we may not achieve any financial success or become a household name - but we will be read. Even if it is by just one reader. We will be read.
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