Writing Update

What’s up y’all.

I want to write a post here to let you all know what’s up with me and writing. I know I haven’t posted anything on here in a while. I haven’t been up to date at all. It hasn’t really been that kind of a period for me. I have done a lot of writing, but not much has made it to the blog.

It has been an interesting and developmental phase for me. I spent a lot of time, going through cycles, when I was not holding down a job, doing a lot of editing work, and then when working, almost no editing, but still a lot of creative writing. And now I’m in a place where I have multiple ideas or drafts, works that need to be finished, and I really want to finish them, and I have finished the second major revision of my Japan memoir, which I want to call Kumamoto Days. It’s a reference to Orwell’s Burmese Days and I like the sound of it and I think it captures everything that the memoir is about.

I have compiled all or most of all of the Japan writings that I did here on this blog, and have put them together into a single work, and have been meticulously editing and improving them to try and have something publishable. Dr. Joseph Chaney had the great idea to do this, and it has really improved me as a writer, and I have spent a lot of time thinking about how books are written, and the editing process, and what it takes to actually make something as good as it can be. That has been a big deal and has taken now quite a long time. I’ve been doing the editing for almost two years now, which is crazy. I did not imagine at all that it would take so long, but I kept finding ways to improve it, so I have had to keep editing. But I think we are nearly at the end of the road with that. I will start reaching out to agents and trying to get it published. But in the meantime, I can put up a downloadable PDF of the whole thing, and you can have it in digital form. I just want to review it one more time and get a bit more feedback, before I do that. So I just want to let you know now that that’s coming.

This is my plan. I have other works incoming. I want to focus on one thing at a time. But finally, after a long period of editing and working on this dang thing, I’m nearing at least the next stage of the project, which is the publishing part, and it seems like I can’t have any idea how that will take, because it’s not up to me, unless I self-publish it. All I really want is to have it in a physical form and look over and see it sitting on my bookshelf. That’s all I want at this point. And for you guys to have that too.