{"id":2640,"date":"2023-03-31T06:10:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T06:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2023-03-29T15:17:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T15:17:51","slug":"the-doubting-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/the-doubting-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Doubting Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m at that point in the current work in progress, tentatively titled Treadwell House – Sanctuary<\/strong><\/em>. It’s intended as a cozy mystery with paranormal or magic realism elements. I just passed 52,000 words. I project it to come in between 75K and 80K words, so I\u2019m around the two-thirds point. And it seems like it\u2019s always around this point in writing my books that it happens.<\/p>\n

Some piece of my brain starts whispering to the rest that this is complete crap. Nonsense. Ridiculous. Nobody\u2019s going to want to read this. It\u2019s boring. It\u2019s pointless. It\u2019s just junk.<\/p>\n

And maybe it is. An author is never the best judge of their own work.<\/p>\n

But I know this feeling. It\u2019s an old friend\u2014or old enemy. I\u2019m pretty sure it\u2019s happened with every book I\u2019ve written. Since I\u2019ve scratched out more than two dozen of them now, it\u2019s hard to say for sure, but I know that it has happened with at least the last five or six. It\u2019s gotten to be predictable. I almost wait for it, though I dread it, too, because one of these times that voice might be right. It might just be crap.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, I\u2019ll ignore the voice in my head and finish writing the book. I love the characters I\u2019ve created, and I want to find out how the story ends as badly as I hope my readers will. (I do have a general idea, but I write to see how those will take shape in the reality of the novels.)<\/p>\n

So far, the voices have been wrong. I\u2019m going to hope that\u2019s the case this time, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m at that point in the current work in progress, tentatively titled Treadwell House – Sanctuary. It’s intended as a cozy mystery with paranormal or magic realism elements. I just passed 52,000 words. I project it to come in between …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14,64,18,204],"tags":[312,311,310],"class_list":["post-2640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-magic","category-musings","category-mysteries","category-writing","tag-cozy-mystery","tag-magic-realism","tag-treadwell-house-sanctuary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2641,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions\/2641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}