Y’all know I
take the craft of writing seriously. It
is my default setting, my first job, the thing I’ll do whether I get paid for
it or not. It is not something I fuck
around with. Whenever the muse graces
me, I respect and cherish her. Members
of my creative network do likewise with their gifts and their muses. We do what we have to do to nurture our
creative spirits because we’d rather be writing than anything else.
Noob and I
had a conversation recently where she described such a situation, and the
“author” told FB that “the novel’s done.”
Curious, Noob went to look and discovered that said “novel” was actually
a short story, and it was for sale on Amazon for $2 or $3. And apparently, the topic is one I’d consider
to be weighty, but the writer of this…pamphlet…clearly didn’t treat it as
such. Noob cracked up laughing, and when
she told me, I was offended…and I do not offend easily.
Note: Any real writer knows that a novel is at least 50,000 words.
