Wednesday, August 14, 2013

APOLOGY FOR NOT FINISHING WHAT I START

an old salt in watch cap
Before anyone starts reading this blog, you should know the following.When I was in grade school, at report card time, I'd often see checked on my report card, the message, Completes work on time, meaning, he doesn't complete work on time. Still at it all these many decades later. If you notice the dates of these entries, you'll see that they began quite some time ago and the job's not finished. I've tried to complete an autobiography several times, but since I'm not well known, I think it's a waste of time to write one. I've tried the memoir route a couple times and all my fiction, except two, are filled with autobiographical details, hidden as fiction. Metafiction, I guess it's called, after writers like Vonnegut. Here's a hope for me. I'm still trying to write a publishable novel. If it's good enough, maybe sometime will pay me to write about all the years I led that led up to a late in life publication. Now wouldn't that be something?

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