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June 3 Question – Writers have secrets!  What are one or two of yours, something readers would never know from your work?

I haven’t read a new fiction book in years.

I can’t do it.

I get too caught up in the details, the inconsistencies, the plot holes, how I would’ve phrased that sentence, blahblahblah.

I’ve tried to turn off my inner douchebag editor/critic, but it just won’t shut up anymore, and I don’t know why.

Generally, the only books I read now are non-fiction – histories, sciences, that kind of thing. My inner editor won’t interfere with those most of the time, because my inner editor is all “oooo! more knowledge!!”

Although every once in a while it still gets ticked off enough to want to childishly fling a book across the room – like my son’s astronomy books. They came out in 2015 or so, and still blame an impact for Uranus’ crazy positioning, when astronomers have known for more than a decade before that it wasn’t an impact, but is a result of complex gravitational forces playing on Uranus from Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune.

I still want to take a permanent marker to the text and run an edit on it.  But if I do that, then I’ll start fact checking everything else they’ve written, then I’ll steal the book from my son permanently and mail it back to the editors or something stupid like that.

 

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