Hiddennode

So in working on the story I’ve hit a kinda SNAFU… Basically I shared the story with a few folks and got some early feedback. In hindsight, I shouldn’t of done that. Should have finished it then shared it, but ah well, things happen. But I did get good feedback and I realize now not only do I have to redo all the chapters I’ve done already, but that to be where I am right now, I’d probably be closer to chapter 7 or 8 rather than 5. With that in mind, I’m debating what I should do. Should I just restart writing it (meaning I wasted a bunch of time writing), or should I just keep going as if I already wrote those other chapters and then come back to them later? I’m not positive, but I’m thinking the latter. I think I’m going to ask the writer who wrote the book I’ve been following for writing advice about what he thinks, if he’s got some time for a quick question. I think he’ll confirm that it’ll be the latter but it would be nice to just get some advice real fast.

I like that fact, by the way. The fact I know the writer’s SL name and can get writing advice (within reason). I’m not going to make it a habit to bug him daily or even weekly, but just popping a quick IM question shouldn’t be too farfetched. The fact I can be so connected to my interests. For example, besides having one of the writers I enjoy reading as a friend in SL, I also have him and several others writers I like followed on Twitter. I follow the tweets of one of the developers of the Shadowrun RPG and hear neat stuff about some of the gaming industry. I can know when there’s a live feed for a show I like, and it’s cool when I can be aware of what’s happening in my interests.

Honestly, I don’t know how many people read this blog, but if you do and you’re not on twitter, you should be. Even if you don’t tweet much (which I don’t, although my blog tweets for me sometimes), it’s nice to be able to connect to your interests and such. Heck, even if you just follow me you’ll at least get the posts when I update here. Funny is that not only do I have my own twitter feed, but the Dynamic IP super group has one too. I believe I mentioned that at one point in a previous post.

Huh… don’t know where that Twitter Advertising Rant came from…

jdiehl