A Struggling Artist

Whew reader(s) it has been a hectic last few months, and this blog has suffered. I’m used to posting at least 2 – 3 times a week and lately it’s been sometimes once a week, 4 times a month. I’ve been hard at work on a new manuscript that will likely go nowhere. This is how it goes for unsigned, unfamous writers. A struggling artist.

Yet, I feel a bit of satisfaction. To have finished.

It is about bicycling.

Many reader(s) and friends have “suggested” I write about cycling since it is a passion of mine. But, there is a lot of distance between an idea and the actualization of it. I needed a jumping off place, a framing device. On my Adirondacks/Vermont Green Mountain Loop I was able to visualize what it was I wanted to do.

--Of course, there is a lot of distance still between that moment and getting words on paper/digital file. I hadn’t yet realized the scope. Every line or paragraph I found myself gping deeper, filling in backstory and giving historical content to what I first thought to summarize quickly before going on to the “point.” The small project began to fill out. At one point I had 40 tabs open.

Now, I’m back. I’m not done—by a long shot—but at least I’m feeling not so distracted. This is the first writing project where I needed 2 or 3 monitors to keep all the threads in front of me. I’d like to think I did all right, but I have a feeling there is going to be a few tabs and more work to be done.

So if you know a publisher of agent that needs a pile of s---- about solo woman bicycling at age 60, please contact me here!