Came back here with the intention of deleting that last post. I guess it really wasn't too bitchy, but it felt bitchy. I was in a bad mood when I wrote it, and the words felt moody in my head. Feel free to ignore that last post. There's some very good advice in it, but it's rather bitter advice, and I try to tell myself I'm more optimistic than that.
Anyway, another thing.
I finally published my novel. Here's a link. I doubt anyone comes to this blog, but I'll leave it anyway. The novel is called There were Spirits in the Stone and it's a post-apocalyptic sci-fi. If that's your kind of read, then follow the link to get a better description and some free sample chapters. If you enjoy the sample chapters, the rest of the book is only $1.99 which is pretty affordable.
It's a first novel, so publishing it has been sort strange. Not really emotional so much as just strange. I was telling my fiance earlier tonight. I can't sit down and read my novel, because every time I look at it, I hear a different voice reading it to me. Normally when I read a novel, I envision the author's voice reading it to me. Every author writes to his or her own specific cadence, therefore, I can hear every author's voice as a unique voice. My own writing doesn't sound like anyone's voice. It sounds... weird in my head.
So, I've put the book away. I don't know if it's a good book or a bad book. I'm really hoping someone will give me some feedback, because I think it'll be quite a while before I'll be able to just open it up and start reading it like a normal book. And I've already started on the next book. This first one was actually a prequel for a series. Don't worry, the series will be better written than the first book. I hope.
In other news, I've drawn up plans for several different imaginary houses. There's the concrete one, which is definitely my dream house. There's also a few different ideas regarding what to do with the trailer, since we've got it and I might as well no waste it.
It might turn out to be good to have, because building a wooden house will be very difficult in the woods in the middle of nowhere without access to tools or electricity. If I realize I need a special kind of screw out on our land (middle of nowhere), it'll take me four hours to drive out, buy it, and drive back. But if I do it on the trailer on a property near a home depot, my chances of getting it successfully finished are higher.
I'm still not gonna take help from anyone in making it. I'm really not trying to sound bitter with this, but I'm not taking help making this unless its from my fiance. It's no one's fault, it's just that people have schedules and they get busy and things don't get done. And it's more than that. I want the learning experience of turning the trailer into a tiny house on wheels, because if I understand how to do that, I can then move on to bigger projects (like the concrete dream house).
So... now all I need is money. Since I'm going to be making this with the cheapest material I can find, I should be able to make it with about $2000.
I'm gonna have to sell a lot of books...
