How my writing is going. Projects update

Dear friends,

Writing is a little bit of a rush lately, if that does make sense. It doesn't matter if days are made of 24 hours or even 45, time seems never enough. It feels so because when I write the world disappears together with the common sense of time, and the thousand things that compose a life. While writing I'm totally absorbed by words and stories. It is such a pleasure, but also quite a problem when I have many projects to carry out.

Before speaking about what these projects are and how they are going, I'd like to make an introduction saying I have been starting my day writing since last year, and it is the best choice ever for my creativity. I sit on the sofa and do my not-control writing practice. Early in the morning my inner censor is still asleep, so it is funnier and easier to step out syntax and explore words. A sort of warm up that prepares me for the big moment of the day, working on my major project. Which is, since July 2024, my new novel. I hope it will be ready next month for literary agents (and if you have any suggestions on the subject please, write a comment below).

That is the very update of today's post. So, how the editing is going? I'd say pretty well, and pretty bad. Both. Confusion. Panic. Excitement. Fear. In two little words, a mess. As I designed it, the manuscript is made of six big chapters, internally divided in parts. Hope this layout remains, but it really depends on the literary agent and -hopefully- to the publisher. I now have finished the first chapter and started editing the second. It is not just a simple editing, I'm rewriting almost everything so it takes quite a lot of time. At least more than what expected. And as it wasn't enough, I also have bad days in which I can't put down a single word. That doesn't help. I wish everything was ready for sending my work to a literary agent, but it isn't. So I feel the pressure and the urge to end it as soon as possible. But, that is a part of the process which can't be rushed. There is nothing worst than speed up the editing process in order to have a finished novel in your hands, risking to miss important changes, coherence in the text, and grammar checks. Bad choice (my opinion, of course). That is why I'm still in my editing era, chapter 2. However, I love how chapter one turned out.

Together with that -because it seems impossible to me to work only on one thing at a time- the collection of poems is ready for the shop and you may find the e-book available in the next few days, just the time to double check everything is exactly as I like it.

The short story I have been planning for weeks is not on the page yet, but I trust in the power of weekends and I'm sure I'll jot down few pages of it between Saturday and Sunday.

I'm also writing a lot of poems for the Poetic Mail project. It is running fast! Oh my Goodness, faster than I could ever imagine, and that blows my mind. Thank you.

A short story I wrote last year is now participating to several writing contest, but I'll not know more about it until April. Again, fear, excitement, panic. A lot of panic. Joy. Immense joy. For those of you who have a story closed in the drawer and never put it out, that is your sign to enter a writing contest. It is scary, especially the moment you click to upload your work. That gets you goose bumps. Anyway I genuinely think it is one of the best things a writer may do. Let your words be known. You will be rejected most of the times, it is emotionally difficult, but it is worth trying.

I'm not crazy, just a person who finds normal experiencing a variety of feelings. Spoiler alert, I'm grateful for that. Please, don't waste your life being scared by emotions.

That's all for today's writing update.

May your day be infused with sublime words.

Xoxo Connelly