Writing Novels

 

Since retiring in 2015, I have written thirteen novels, with three additional novels that were started and stopped because I had lost interest.

Each of my novels is 100,000 words or more with only one being more than 150,000 words.

They vary from science fiction to spies, law enforcement, human interest, and technology.

I have thought about publishing them but not sure I want to take the time to find a publisher, nor do I want to invest the money in self-publishing.  There is also a good possibility that if I tried to publish and fail, I would stop writing.

Sounds silly and childish because if I really wanted to write, nothing would stand in my way, and while that is true... I do not want to take a chance on being that disappointed and ruin my retirement.

I was writing two novels a year and then I wrote my longest novel and that one burned me out and I took a good 12 months off.  After that, I started to write three and each time, lost interest and stopped.

I started writing again recently, and found this novel that I thought I had lost but found again after I had my OS reloaded on my Dell Laptop.  I am not sure why that made a difference but it did.

It lacks about two chapters of being finished, so I am starting at the beginning, and making changes as I slowly read so that I will be familiar with the entire story to complete the last to chapters.

Today, I was able to read and edit one chapter of about 16 pages.  There are ten chapters that need editing so that should take me about 11 more days, then maybe a week or two to write the last two chapters.

Interesting how this all plays out, isn't it.