My Place In The Field

For those of you wondering, I am not finished revising my manuscript.  Not even close, actually.  I have just started The New Chapter Nine– so named because it’s a whole new chapter–and I’ve still got miles to go before I sleep.  But even though I’m Lost On The Green, I figured I might as well get back on the golf course and start hacking away at that ball.

In the rain.  And the mud.

Just like that famous golfer from my favorite movie.

Junuh knew that if he had any chance of winning the match, he had to come to terms with his own personal demons.

And as a famous author once said:

It’s the journey that matters, not the destination.

I was too focused on the journey, not the destination.  But In that journey, I’ll face my demons.

And that begins here.

I started this site because I believed I had something to say, and I wanted the freedom to say it without answering to anyone but myself–no professors, no peer critics, no editors.  No reviewers writing about my work without ever having read it.  No, not this time.

But I will say that this is the most extensive revision of a single manuscript that I have ever done. That is not an easy task to undertake when one is being “tested by adversity,” as director Robert Redford put it when discussing The Legend of Bagger Vance.

But no storm lasts forever.  Once the gale hits land, the winds encounter resistance.  And the storm starts to die.  Run, and you give the wind less resistance.  So the storm lasts longer.

Stand your ground against the gale, and, in the end, you will last longer than the storm.

While this is not quite the celebratory return I had hoped for–no flags of mine are flying–I am going to enjoy being on the green, searching for my place in the field.

But I hope you’ll enjoy my writing again.

The sleeping bear has woken.

My hibernation is over.