Recently, however, that dormant urge to write fiction has reemerged, shaken awake by the realization that this month is National Novel Writing Month, and by a recent rediscovery of StoryMill, a product from Mariner Software, the folks who brought you the spartan yet infinitely useable Mariner Writer word processor. Koontzis position in the literary world was safe from me. I gave up trying to write stories and placated myself with an occasional article in the public eye on a website here or a newspaper there. Iim positive I gave many junior editors something to laugh about as they stuffed the form rejection letter into my return envelope. Now I understand why no one ever published my stories. What I had created in my writing attempts were streams of creativity that had moments of literary goodness (at least to my current and somewhat jaded eyes), but lack coherence that ultimately overshadowed any goodness there might have been. I also needed a way to describe my characters better. What I desperately needed was an outline for my stories, a way to map progress towards the resolution. There are moments when the characters seem to awake and become animated when a plot twists just so, but those moments are few and far between. Looking at them now, through the spectacles of time and experience, the stories are dull and hard to follow, even to me. It was interesting to me at the time I wrote them. While there were plots with characters and conflicts that needed resolution my stories didnit flow.
I took out some of my early stories recently and read them. After a while I started believing I was an undiscovered Dean Koontz and all I had to do was write that perfect story, find the right editor, and the rest would be literary history. After all, family and friends who read my efforts dutifully heaped praise on them.
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Way back, before I bought my first Mac I wrote a bunch of short fiction and believed that what I wrote was good enough for publication. RELATED: 'We hope that includes reopening the Wisconsin Rapids mill': Verso Corp.For a very long time Iive wanted to write a book or short story and have it published. It’s also possible that BillerudKorsnäs will restart the mill, and the redevelopment plan won't be needed for that site, Blaser said, although hearing feedback from residents on their redevelopment priorities would still be useful throughout the city. While getting feedback from residents could apply to other development sites throughout the city, any possibility of redevelopment on the Rapids mill site ultimately depends on what BillerudKorsnäs chooses to do with its paper mill and surrounding property.īlaser said the city has created other redevelopment plans in the past like its Downtown Waterfront Plan, and he sees the Recovery and Redevelopment Plan operating in a similar fashion - illustrating the city's vision and acting as a resource and plan for any future developers if BillerudKorsnäs decides to sell the property. Mayor Shane Blaser said Vandewalle will collect responses and provide redevelopment recommendations to city leaders next month. Options include fast redevelopment, mitigating environmental pollution, creating new jobs, increasing new shopping, recreational or cultural activities and more. The Wisconsin Rapids Recovery and Redevelopment Plan project team is promoting a survey that asks what priorities residents have for redeveloping the site.