It’s been a trying couple of weeks here in Aspiring Authorland. After plodding along at a pretty regular clip on a novel and completing about 1/3 of the first draft, I submitted it to an editor and asked for some objective input on how it was going.
Needless to say, his eyes didn’t open wide with [...]
Today after karate class the girls and I were eating dinner at a greasy spoon, waiting for our grub, and talking about imaginary karate techniques. It went something like this:
“I’m training for my rainbow belt.”
“Well I’m training for my one thousand black belt.”
“The rainbow belt is after that. Duuuuh!”
“It is not.”
“Is too.”
“Then I’m training for [...]