Jeff's Blind Dog Blog

Four chapters are up of my NaNoWriMo story, "The Rain Song." Scroll down and on the right you'll find a link to a blog that has the whole thing so far. As of right now I have over 7,000 words written... which means I'm 3,000 words behind where I should be if I want to hit 50,000 by November 30. I've learned that for my writing style that means no less than five double-spaced pages per day, ideally six. Luckily most nights I've had time to get it done. So give it a read and let me know what you think, and again, don't be afraid of hurting my feelings, I know it sucks. ;-)

Actually, that's what's surprising me about it; one of many things:

* It doesn't suck. In fact, when I come back to read the next day what I've written, I'm shocked how good it is. Normally I write something, think "Wow, that came out great!", come back the next morning to it and think "I wrote this?! This sucks!!!" Not with this one. For having no discernable plot nor storyline yet, it reads rather well.

* It's not going the direction I expected it to. I won't tell you what direction I originally intended to take it; that's rather personal and I'd embarrass people doing it. But it's not going that way anyway. It doesn't read like I'm in total choking control of it. It has its own voice. If you've written anything of length yourself, you understand how profoundly humbling that is. Frankly, I don't see how any writer who's experienced it could call himself an atheist afterwards, even if he had no clue of the concept of God before experiencing it. It's like something else is taking control.

And that's going WAY deep for a Blind Dog Blog, so I'll stop here. Give it a read. Let me know what you think.