Daniel McMillanIn December of 2017, I finished the draft of my first novel. Yay for me, right? I then went through it and gave it a first edit run-through and left it for almost a month without even touching it. Yay for me again.
Why, you might ask, is that something to cheer for? Why is the fact that I have abandoned something I've been working on so diligently and for so long cause for celebration? The answer to that is a combination of a lesson learned and a newfound confidence in the writing process. And, the knowledge that the abandonment is only temporary. My first book, "On the Ashes of Our Ignorance", was non-fiction and written as a response to the questions I've been asked throughout my adult life regarding things I have studied since I was 11 years old.
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Renee Cronley“You’re never going to kill storytelling because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.” —Margaret Atwood Storytelling is often associated with an earlier “analogue” age: an era of paintings and tales around the campfire, but they’re so much more than that. Stories are universal and an integral part of being human. They are how humanity has communicated since the beginning of time by passing along morals and knowledge across generations and connecting us to a history of values. Storytelling has a way of preserving sequences of events with raw emotions and spreading information about wars fought, lessons learned, and good deeds that were done. |
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