I totally get why some actors never watch the movies they play(ed) in. I am also sure there's filmmakers who never watch the movies they direct, or perhaps only once, after finishing them.
This is how I feel about my book, right now.
I am pretty tired of it and I feel like moving on, to the next story.
Probably not the best thing to do, as I haven't sold a single copy as of yet, and I plan to at least get some of the energy that I put into it - in the last two years - returned to me, in a form that can feed me and pay ( some of ) my bills.
So, yesterday, instead of starting on the next project, I implemented a couple of small corrections, before creating a pdf version of it that I sent to two friends and, afterwards, to my E-reader.
When the book had arrived on my E-reader, I managed to read the intro/ preface but, once the actual story started, I had to stop.
I didn't feel like continuing.
I can't read this any longer!
Which reminds me of Stephen King, talking about putting a book ( in progress ) in a drawer and leaving it in there for half a year or so, until he feels like continuing ( Stephen King - On Writing )
Of course it helps when you're already a millionaire.
So, yesterday night, instead of reading through my book for the umptieth time, I took a bath and then started preparing dinner followed by binge watching a series that doesn't require much brainpower.
Now it's another day and I had a meetup, early this morning, with the old man that I mentioned in my previous write up ex-rockstar / (song)writer offers to edit my book.
Not really a meetup, to be honest. He appearead once again, as if out of nowhere. But this time I could smell, from his sweat, that he had indeed walked all the way to the café, from his house, listening to music ( as he mentioned ) on a prehistoric discman.
I cut the conversation short before he got to invite me to sit with him and, later, I talked about this and our previous meeting, in the 20th episode of my podcast: The Life of Hypersensitivosaurus'.
You can listen to it here
One thing he told me, this morning, and not for the first time:
"If you become famous, you can pay for my wine..."
The guy seems to live on wine and cigarettes - which could be a follow up to the Jim Jarmusch classic 'Coffee and Cigarettes'.
TO BE CONVINUED...