Still NaNoing
This weekend was filled with more NaNoWriMo which is funny because I thought the event was supposed to end December 1st? Ha! Ha! As Kalki likes to write. See, turns out apparently I’m so pro now at writing 50,000 words in one month that this year the story demanded to be bigger, longer, and uncut.
This may be a good thing. I got a few reviews of my writing from some people who bought previous works and they weren’t very good.
“You are naive about being gay,” said one person who read “Freakshow”. I tried to correct them, but it didn’t do any good. I said that I may be “idealistic” about being gay but hardly “naive.” I mean, how can I be naive when I am gay? I write about what I wished were true, not what is actually true. That’s idealistic. Ah well.
“I didn’t like it, but couldn’t stop reading it,” said another. This is kind of a back-handed compliment I guess. I really think it’s an interesting thing to say. Sadly, they really didn’t expand on why they didn’t like it. Maybe it was the storyline of “Later, Skater” what with it’s kind of sad ex-gay religious stuff.
He also said that he didn’t buy that Skittles is two years younger than Kalki. I tried to explain that Skittles has had to grow up faster due to the harsh reality of his upbringing in Russia, but he didn’t seem to think that was good enough. He also said that Kalki being an albino didn’t really factor in much. I tended to agree with this, but that was partly by design.
See, Kalki has to deal with being all of these things… only child, strict parents, albino, oh yeah, and he’s gay too, see, the idea is that it’s just one more layer that’s frustrating for him to overcome. I will say that in the sequel it comes up a bit more since the gay part has been kind of dealt with for him.
So, those were some comments I got this weekend about my work.
I’m still writing though. Still moving forward with the next novel called “Later, Skater: On Tour.” I’m writing the end of it now, actually. Then we’ll let it stew and fester before taking it apart for rewrites and editing. I think people will really like it.
Just, maybe, not those two people.
Filed under: freak show, later skater, later skater on tour
