Hello Friends!
It has been a good long while since I sent out an update but, finally, I have some news!
Inkshares is planning on a Spring/Summer 2022 release for Eudaimonia!
In October it will have been 4 years since you helped me get this thing in production. Without your help it would have never stood a chance. So, again, thank you. We are getting there!
Recently, I had to spend some time on a plane. I knew that I would be stuck for multiple hours with little to do. So, I uploaded the most recent draft of Eudaimonia (this makes 4, I think) to my Kindle. Everything inside of me cringed as I started on page one.
I think when you create something and refine it over, and over, and over all you really see is what is wrong with it. That's all you are focused on. Why is this terrible and how do I fix it? The decent parts you disregard because they don't need attention. Hours are spent hunched over sections dickering around with the way a sentance sounds. And you are never reading it as a whole piece of work. Never. Throw in the insecurity of never having done this before and the doubt that it will ever get better, argh.
This is what prompted the dread when I opened that Kindle thousands of feet above the ground. I didn't want to, yet again, face all the rough and ugly parts of this book and all of my shortcomings as an amateur. Atrocious, right? Plus, it was impossible to correct anything on a Kindle in an airplane. So, as I read, imagine my suprise when I thought to myself, "I don't hate this."
That may not sound like a ringing endorsement to you, for me, that is progress.
I hope you are having a wonderful summer,
Your friend,
Meghan Godwin