RE: As Promised, I am back, and feeling a bit, STEEM-Y...
Welcome back young fella. (I can say that as I am almost 50 and have earned the right to call people young fella.)
So, a great man (Ricky Bobby from Talledega Nights) once said..."If you're not first you're last," which is the dumbest thing ever but worked for the movie. I mean you could be second, third, fifth etc...However, I do believe in the phrase, "if you're not moving forwards, you're going backwards," because time never stops and moving forward in thought and deed is preferable than standing still waiting to get overtaken. Many of them disagree though, but they're so far behind that we can't see them anymore.
Anyway, a long winded way of saying that your plans of moving forward are well-founded.
So, a novel huh? Good plan. I wrote one over the period of a year back around 2000. It's got over 440,000 thousand words and I had it hard bound and gave it to my wife as a gift. It was a really enjoyable and rewarding experience. I think you'll find your journey the same.
I look forward to hearing about your journey and seeing the results.
Thank you for the warm and humorous, welcome back. 440,000 words, huh? WELL, that is pretty impressive. That is a beautiful thing to have given the one you love. True devotion. Good man.
Took me about 14 months of writing. I still write like that, even now, but not for steem. I gave it to my wife as a wedding anniversary and birthday gift (we got married on her birthday) and she cherishes it as one of her most prized possessions. It made me happy, and also the writing of it brought me the clarity I needed at the time. It was somewhat cathartic, the process, and there's much of me, the old and new, in that book.
Anyway, good to see you got out of the big-house...That tunnel you dug worked perfectly after all! :)
Well of course!!! Subterranean strategy. Works, every time. I am writing something fictional... The story will be something of a Dystopian Fiction. It will also involve, some subterranean natural selection. Among many, many, other things. ;P
Oh, intriguing...Looking forward to it.
Mine was a fictional thing, adventure, romance, battles, some humour...Set in a fictional place but a mediaeval era.
Get after it mate...A great endeavour and as you wrote well, I'm sure it will be cool.