WelcomeCategory: General:General
Welcome!
Welcome to CalvinDude.com, home of the theological and philosophical mussings and mutterings from the wacky hombre known as CalvinDude. Here you will find writings that formerly were on The Calvinist and Debate Atheism websites, as well as fresh new content.
Please continue to look back as more information is added. In addition, feel free to browse through the blog as it will be updated frequently.
Latest Blog Entry
It Doesn't Feel Like I Wrote It
Based on some things I've read before, I think the feeling is a common one to authors. It's the feeling when you read something that you wrote but it's been a long, long time since you wrote it. The feeling...Did I really write this?
In between working on some short stories and editing The 13th Prime for what will hopefully be the last time (we shall see how that goes!), I've dug out my old NaNoWriMo story from last November. I read through it last night to get the flavor of the story once more, and I've been working on it now too, filling in the gaps, etc. As you may recall from last November, I wrote the novel just to get 50,000 words, and I did succeed at that. But the novel wasn't finished. I only got the entire first act and portions of the second act (as well as the very end of the third act) finished.
Part of the reason why I didn't write more on it is because a lot of the sections that are left are extremely complicated to write. Not in the sense of looking for research or anything of that nature. All I can say about it is, once it's finished you'll have to read it to understand. And you will understand why it would be difficult to come up with those portions.
Anyway, as I read it there were many times when I felt that feeling: It doesn't feel like I wrote this. I surprised myself in a few places even. Words and turns of phrases that I forgot I put in.
Ironically, just the other day I was talking to my friend Travis and I mentioned how even working on The 13th Prime, which I think is a good novel, I still feel that Public Tranist was better. Public Transit had a certain quality to it that I told Travis I didn't think I could ever duplicate.
But having read through my NaNoWriMo project, even hacking out some of the bad prose that I had put in just to ensure I got over 50,000 words, I have to say that that story definitely has the potential to surpass Public Transit in my esteem. I can't wait to finish it and share it with the world, not because I want money (although that would be nice, of course!) but because I think it's actually really, really good.
FWIW, I would love to write a book some day that Stephen King would say "I wish I had written that" about. For that matter, before M. Night fell into the deep end of the pool, I wanted to write a script that he said "I wish I had written that" to as well.
Oh well. At least it's a goal, even if one that I will most likely never attain. :-)
To read the rest of the blog click here!
