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So I am still writing the biography. It feels as if I'm back in school in the sense that I'm not drawing off my own imagination and controlling things. This feels less like writing and more like wordsmithing. I have most of the information in front of me and I just have to decide how to present it.
So I am at 68,000 words and there is so much more to put in there. I am sure I will top 100k words by the time I am done and I think that is a good size for a memoir. The book is going to be called Deep Undercover and is about an undercover narcotics officer who underwent transition. Because she was married and had kids, there's a lot to cover. I am trying to keep things real and raw, not sugar coating things at all (which was my main problem with Jenny Boylands book).
Anyway, I felt the need to give an update because I am feeling low and unimportant. I get like that. I think I'm a good writer, but sometimes I feel like I am showing my works to the wrong audience. Is this biography something that will appeal to the readers on the site? I don't know. I hope so. I am doing my best. But there seems to be a lack of cross dressing/sex in my latest works and less focus on the internal and I wonder if that is driving people away. Hopefully I start on Unreachable 2 in the upcoming weeks and bang that out quick. I have so many ideas for books, even a sci-fi dystopian book and a few other hard hitting books like god bless the child. I wish I could focus my entire time on writing and maybe get that one piece out of me that is really important.
I rambled on long enough. I now return you to your regularly scheduled stories.
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I was in...
a writing class taught by Michael Stackpole. In it he said, if you're writing a novel, and at some point you don't get to a point where you think you might have bitten off more than you can chew, you didn't aim high enough.
I think you're at that point. You're a talented writer, Katie. You'll see it through.
~And so it goes...