Full of Lies
So apparently I am just full of lies.
I said earlier that I was going to be blogging more, and then I did not do that. I did, however, take a slightly different and unexpected step in my writing career: I started graduate school! I'm currently working toward an MA in Publishing from Western Colorado University. We officially kicked things off last summer by spending a week together in Gunnison, and the atmosphere was so incredibly warm and kind. I truly had no idea how supportive the writing community is.
PC: Kevin J. Anderson |
Unfortunately, when you learn that much that fast, you start to notice all the areas in which your old work is lacking. That's where even more lies come in... I know I literally just made a whole preachy blog post about the importance of honoring your past work, but I've decided that I'm going to publish new editions of the entire Equilibrium trilogy.
I don't want to betray the original trilogy, but I don't want to leave it behind, either. I want to take everything I've learned — and will learn — in this program and apply it to the books, making them something that I feel still accurately represents what I'm capable of and where I stand in my writing worldviews. I realize that I can't take the books with me in a way that I'll always be satisfied with (the consequence of striving for growth that I previously ranted about), but I do want to give them the life that I had always intended for them to have.
Townie Books in Crested Butte |
I'll also take a note from Rainbow Rowell and make a post with a guide to the editions: which one is which and why. But all this is planning really far ahead; I've just barely started on this project, and part of me wants to wait until graduation so I can maximize the new perspective I can bring to it. Until then, I'll be thinking of ideas to breathe new life into the first stories I was brave enough to share... because their creation came from a place of love, after all.
And yes, the new editions will have page numbers.