I was actually mentally writing a blog post on the subject of (literary) sex scenes and how the erotic is subjective, but I haven’t had my coffee yet and I think my point got lost somewhere in my muddled brain. So we’ll skip all that for now and head for safer ground.

Elisa from the wonderful Uber Etc. emailed me to ask whether I had plans to post TBSOL (the Rewrite) in a linkable, not-under-lock-and-key sort of way.

The short answer is I’m thinking about it. Actually, I have been thinking about it for months now and I’m still not sure what the final answer will be.

Originally, I had no intention of publishing it on the web at all. I was going to let version one live on, edit version two in silence and secrecy and spend some time looking for a publisher.

Then I thought, ‘But what if I totally muck it up and people throw rotten tomatoes at me?’ So, I decided to open it up to the truly interested.

Then people on my mailing list asked if I could post it on the mailing list, and I thought, ‘Why not?’ And now I post to both the LJ and the mailing list.

But the thing is this: Feedback remains practically non-existent. My mailing list has over 500 members and I post and not a peep. The LJ has almost 250 members, and not a peep. Well, occasionally a peep. And it’s because of the occasional peep that I bother at all.

The truth is, I like the feedback. I like hearing what people think. I thought opening it up to the mailing list would open the gates of communication but it seems that either a) I have deeply offended my readers to the point of them giving me the silent treatment, or b) They just have nothing to say.

Either way, it starts to feel pretty foolish after a while, me going, “Hey, this is up,” and hearing crickets chirping in the background. It is, to me, the equivalent of everyone saying, “So what?” And makes me just a bit self-conscious about opening it to the public at all.

It is, after all, just a rewrite of a story, and while it’s primarily all-new, it’s not Brand New and Never-Before-Seen, so it’s very likely people just don’t have a lot to offer in terms of commentary. I get it.

(But, all the same, thank you to those who have ever taken the time to write to me. I love you with a fiery passion best left unexpressed.) ;o)

No, seriously, I just don’t know. The other side of the coin is that I’m not really trying to serialize the novel in any way. I’m really just trying to make it better and get it published.

If you have a thought on the subject, do share.

Also, my normal smiley faces don’t have a nose, but I don’t like the way it formats my paragraphs when it inserts the emoticon. So that’s why my smilies suddenly grew noses….

That was obviously irrelevant information.

(I’m gonna go get that coffee now…)

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