Selling My Soul #30
Selling My Soul (In a Good Way) is a weekly journal about my efforts to get a debut novel published. It’s time to put a quiet end to my Substack adventure. I need to wake up and smell the rejections. This is the thirtieth week where I’ve mused about my hopeful journey to get […]
Selling My Soul #29
Selling My Soul (In a Good Way) is a weekly journal about my efforts to get a debut novel published. What do you write about when there’s not much to write about? Well, there is the creaky old joke about a young minister preaching a first sermon at his (or her!) small, country […]
Selling My Soul #28
Selling My Soul (In a Good Way) is a weekly journal about my efforts to get a debut novel published. In Selling My Soul #27 (last week!), I mentioned a plan to hire a freelance editor to read and critique THROUGH A FOREST WILDERNESS. I concluded with these two expectations: Maybe this hired […]
Selling My Soul #27
Selling My Soul (In a Good Way) is a weekly journal about my efforts to get a debut novel published. Last week my two sisters visited us, with a request to visit Yosemite. One of the truly great things about living in Fresno is that—as we locals say—it’s close to everything. Monterey Bay, San […]
Selling My Soul #26
Selling My Soul (In a Good Way) is a weekly journal about my efforts to get a debut novel published. I’ve arrived at an artificial benchmark. I know that. But I also know the calendar and just enough about mathematics to realize that I’ve been doing this for exactly one-half of the year. […]
Selling My Soul #25
Selling My Soul (In a Good Way) is a weekly journal about my efforts to get a debut novel published. There is a picture displayed on my desk from where I got lost in the mountains back in the single digit years of the 2000s. I was only lost for a few hours. […]
Selling My Soul #24
Selling My Soul (In a Good Way) is a weekly journal about my efforts to get a debut novel published. In the last week, Agent #18 became Agent #64 and Agent #33 is now also Agent #68. A little magical sleight-of-hand on my part, turning one agent into a completely different one? Alas, […]
Selling My Soul #23
Selling My Soul (In a Good Way) is a weekly journal about my efforts to get a debut novel published. In sailing there is a phrase known as being “in the doldrums.” In the early-19th century, the word once reserved for a feeling of despondency came to be applied to certain tropical regions […]
Selling My Soul #22
Selling My Soul (In a Good Way) is a weekly journal about my efforts to get a debut novel published. This thought, this week: where did my urge to write begin? Most honest answer: not sure. Another answer: definitely by high school. I started writing a novel during high school. Let’s […]
Selling My Soul #21
Selling My Soul (In a Good Way) is a weekly journal about my efforts to get a debut novel published. I’m announcing a big change! Or, a little temporary change? Why did I change the title of my book from FINDING JOHN MUIR to THROUGH A FOREST WILDERNESS? First let me try […]