Saturday, July 12, 2003
I don't think I'm supposed to write a novel.
Over the course of the last - hell, almost decade now - I've been intermittently working on a novel, "logical progression". [And yes, John, the title's genesis is what you think it is - go with your gut.] It's a coming-out/of-age story whose protagonist is a basketball player gradually making his way out of the closet, along with the help of his out-and-proud boyfriend, on a small, midwestern college campus. And not once, but twice, I've lost the disc it's stored on (yes, I know, I should be backing this shit up on my hard drive, I'm an idiot, yes). Is that some sort of cosmic sign?
I like what I've written, though I've polished it nearly so much parts of it seem almost threadbare. And, well, the further away I get from college, the less impulse I seem to have to write it. Maybe I'm just better suited to music writing. I dunno. I'm debating retyping chunks of it and posting them here, even though that'd be a bit time-intensive. [Fortunately, I still have a hard copy printed out of my last draft.] What do y'all think?
Over the course of the last - hell, almost decade now - I've been intermittently working on a novel, "logical progression". [And yes, John, the title's genesis is what you think it is - go with your gut.] It's a coming-out/of-age story whose protagonist is a basketball player gradually making his way out of the closet, along with the help of his out-and-proud boyfriend, on a small, midwestern college campus. And not once, but twice, I've lost the disc it's stored on (yes, I know, I should be backing this shit up on my hard drive, I'm an idiot, yes). Is that some sort of cosmic sign?
I like what I've written, though I've polished it nearly so much parts of it seem almost threadbare. And, well, the further away I get from college, the less impulse I seem to have to write it. Maybe I'm just better suited to music writing. I dunno. I'm debating retyping chunks of it and posting them here, even though that'd be a bit time-intensive. [Fortunately, I still have a hard copy printed out of my last draft.] What do y'all think?
# posted by Thomas : 2:58 PM
