The Fall semester has finally ended. Maybe now I can get back to some writing… maybe. Already, my mind has been a blur of things to write. It’s almost overwhelming, but some of it has already squeaked out.
I’ve had a few short poems show up. They have been the silly, dark poems that my mind tends to favor. One of them has already made it to this site (read it here). These kinds of things often show up in my head, but I rarely have time to write them down during class, so they drift away into the universe, like so much dandelion fluff.
With the end of the semester, I’ve already had one instance where an idea woke me and demanded to be written. It was just the general idea, so it has a way to go before completion. The idea was for a better follow up to the Brendan Fraser Mummy movies, this one involving the great grandson of Fraser’s character. I should look a little bit into writing for movies; I’ve got a partially written follow up to Hogan’s Heroes just sitting in my pile of things to write.
I’m still trying to figure out what to do with my novel. I’m not sure what genre it really fits, and that has hampered my attempts to find an agent. I’ve gotten really positive feedback from the agents who’ve seen it, but it wasn’t what they were looking for. One possibility would be to serialize the novel on this site just to try to get publicity. The goal of doing that would be to get enough attention that I could sell my other novels. It’s an idea.
Another thing I would like to do is to finish illustrating a couple of my poems. There are some that just need illustrations to finish them off. If I do that, I may put “dramatic readings” of them on YouTube or something similar. Again, this would to help generate name recognition and overall exposure for the writing.
Naturally, I won’t accomplish all everything in the break between semesters. At least the Spring semester schedule is a more normal schedule with only one night class. My energy levels should be better and I should be able to accomplish more outside of work. That’s the goal anyway.