I scanned through about five minutes of Joe Biden’s “old man shouting at the camera” routine. Well, he didn’t fall down or begin speaking literal gibberish. But I found it intolerable after just a few minutes. I guess it could be summed up as Ukraine, abortion and January 6th.” Okay, let’s see how that works out for him. Maybe everyone will forget that their jobs are being given to illegal aliens that are also assaulting and murdering their wives and daughters. And maybe they’ll forget that everything is now twice as expensive as it was during Trump’s term in office. So maybe the Dems will be able to win the November election by fraud. I guess we’ll see. But it’s time to look around and spend our time thinking about and doing things that we consider important.
And that goes for me too. Serializing my incomplete novel has been an interesting experience for me. It has taken me a lot of time to get about half way through writing it and you kind of forget how you thought up various scenes and bits of dialogue. So, seeing the beginning again is an odd case of seeing it with new eyes. I guess I’ve been pleasantly surprised with what I’ve reread. It seems to hold up pretty well. Of course, you always find small mistakes and even inconsistencies that have to be tweaked. But all in all, it isn’t half bad. And that is immensely gratifying for me and gives me the encouragement I need to start banging away at the second half of the story. And this rereading has also given me some new insights into some additions that I need to make to fill in some holes that I now find in the story. It really was necessary to get about this far in the story before I could have enough perspective about the tempo and the balance of the various story lines.
Of course, the hardest part for an author is to find a publisher and/or a market for his literary offspring. After listening to a podcast about how incredibly difficult it is to get self-published science fiction novels “recognized” on the Kindle site I think I’ll try to see if I can interest any of the traditional publishing companies in my deathless prose. After all, who could fail to recognize the brilliant writing, the deep psychological truth in the characters’ underpinnings and the timeless quality of the epic struggle between the King of the Mole Men and the faceless, soulless minions of unspeakable evil? Wait a minute. Is mole-men two words or a hyphenate?
Well, regardless. Thanks to all that have plowed through the chapters and please feel free to send along criticism and thoughts on how you think the story should proceed. I’ve only put up on the site about two thirds of what I’ve already written so there’s still a bit to go but I’m sure many people can guess some of how this story proceeds. There is an inexorable logic to how a clandestine war is prosecuted and where the dramatic tension needs to exist. Suffice it to say that things need to start going wrong for our heroes pretty soon. But I’m sure everything will be resolved by the final chapter.
Or maybe not everything. There’s always got to be a sequel you know.
“Oh if I were the King of the Mole Men, Not queen, not duke, not prince.
My regal robes of the Mole Men, would be satin, not cotton, not chintz.”