It does not surprise me that the best professional opinion that I’ve gotten on the “Boston Tales” project is that it lacks polish. I myself think that. Also, as I’ve noted, nobody really wants to read it, not my wife, not my friends, not even the models for its characters.<\/p>\n
It is a crazy waste of paper to be printing copies out, but the thing has a certain dull momentum. I am more or less plodding on with that. I note that so far, the word game is costing as opposed to making money.<\/p>\n
Really, if the suggestion to make short, good, pieces that someone is eager to publish is to be followed, I have to really re-think my whole approach. Short and good is hard and awkward for me. I like to let myself spew. I don’t tweet easily. It takes no time at all to write a few thousand words. I’m not an eker-outer, to use Julavits’ phrase.<\/p>\n
The writer club idea would be ok if I didn’t live in the middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n
Rats. Ass. OK, back to work.
(See, he can write a short one.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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