I've been writing, though I have to admit that it has been more for others than myself. I recently wrote a piece on the Ailey II dance group that is coming to Brock University. It will be published in a magazine by the Brock Centre for the Arts in about a week. It was an interesting exercise in many ways because I had to describe both the dance style and history of the group without (except for YouTube clips) ever having seen them. The finished piece was successful insofar as I think I cut the line between information, description, and aesthetic analysis, all the while maintaining an engaging and fun tone. After my wife read the piece, she told me that she wanted to see the dance troupe solely because she felt she already had a relatively deep understanding of how they dance.
Work on my manuscript has not begun, but there has been a lot of thinking about it. The problem of course is setting time aside to work on that project while still making money doing other writing and editing. I am lucky of course to be able to make money the ways that I do, but I would still love to devote more time to that writing. I am going to institute a word count tally at the end of my posts which indicates the length of my manuscript.
Here it goes. Man, this feels naked. Word Count: 16 540
No comments:
Post a Comment