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Hanna Delaney's avatar

COME ON, DANIEL!!! I have faith in you, and your dry, self-deprecating outlook brightens my day. In a very similar boat to you finance-wise, but I genuinely believe you have loads more to give. I will keep an eye out for this book! (unless you want me to beta it and try and help with a genre?)

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Daniel Puzzo's avatar

Thank you, Hanna, glad you have faith because I'm not sure I do.

Maybe re: the beta. I'm not too fussed with pinpointing a genre, but another set of eyes might be nice. But I know you've got a ton on your plate as it is, so we'll see. I want to get this thing done in the next few days so I can send it to my current beta volunteers who are eagerly awaiting my masterpiece.

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Hanna Delaney's avatar

I wouldn't offer if I didn't want to 🤣

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Daniel Puzzo's avatar

You’re too kind - I just might then (if anything it’ll give you comic relief, not in a good writing kind of way, but a ‘what the hell is wrong with this guy?’ way 🤣)

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Francis F's avatar

Keep going Daniel, it’s you that has inspired me to think about writing a book! My dating diaries, I’ve started ! 😃 I love everything you write.

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Daniel Puzzo's avatar

Aww, this is so sweet, probably the loveliest comment I’ve ever received. Your dating diaries are such a hoot, they’ll make a terrific book! Go for it 🤗

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Francis F's avatar

😊

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Jayne Marshall's avatar

Thoroughly enjoyed reading this, sharing our writing journeys has its own special propulsive power I feel. I loved the part about realising your writing already had a natural arc and that reading, and reading as a writer, is the best education we can give ourselves.

And also:

Feel you on the cash.

You are so impressively prolific.

You should definitely get out there and pitch! The query trenches are a rite of passage!

Thank you for mentioning me and the lovely photo of my book, it's truly an honour! ♥️♥️♥️

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Daniel Puzzo's avatar

I’m only impressively prolific because I don’t know what else to do 😂

I might as well pitch, I’m just deliberating how much more time and effort - god, that sounds so lazy, I don’t mean it like that! - to put into revising it. I’m terrible for focusing on one thing at a time, but I have to get cracking on my Ukraine book asap, I’m lining up interviews and chats with people and my attention is all over the place.

Thank you for the sweet words 🤗

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Lee Bacon's avatar

"So far this year, the novel has been just one thing on my mind. I also wrote two more books and have the first draft of another one that urgently needs revising as well."

Oh, that's all?

Dude, when do you sleep?

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Daniel Puzzo's avatar

I don’t! 😂

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Maria T.C.'s avatar

I’ve been unable to replicate the success I had in second grade, where I won a creative writing contest at my church for something I had no idea I submitted. It might have been a mistake, but it’s my only trophy.

Good luck on your writing and publishing journey!

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Daniel Puzzo's avatar

Well, congratulations on that trophy, you should be proud of that!

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Marci Cornett's avatar

Thanks for quoting my "maybe a compliment." (Just kidding. It was definitely a compliment. I love seeing how your writing defies constraints.) I'm not at all surprised to hear that your work seemed to have unintentionally embodied solid story arcs. You're clearly a storyteller by nature. I'm sure all the reading and analyzing you do only sharpens the skills that come naturally to you.

I think it's great you're leaving your options open and considering the traditional publishing path while still working toward self-publishing. One way or the other, get the Samuel/Groucho disastrous duo out into the world!

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Daniel Puzzo's avatar

Well, then thank you very much for the compliment! 😁

(and the other compliments, you’re too kind, honestly 😊)

One way or another, Groucho will be unleashed on the world. Not sure about Samuel, his outlook is looking rather bleak, isn’t it? I don’t have much hope for the poor guy.

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Marci Cornett's avatar

Oh no! That really isn't a good sign for Samuel when his author loses hope for him. 😄

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Daniel Puzzo's avatar

It's that pesky unreliable narrator again! There's no telling what he has up his sleeve.

Minor spoiler alert, but it's so vague that it's not a spoiler at all - there comes a point, many chapters later, when the narrator loses track of the situation and even one or two of the characters! Chaos is coming...

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Marci Cornett's avatar

Oh nice. That sounds great and so creative! Can't wait to get to that part!

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Swamp Ruby's avatar

how the fuck have you written so many books in one year

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Daniel Puzzo's avatar

Simple: I don’t know what else to do!

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Swamp Ruby's avatar

(I have one (1) novel idea and the thought of even trying to write it is just about insurmountable, I don't think I have one novel's worth of words in me, never mind three books in a year)

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Daniel Puzzo's avatar

Not that I need any more ideas, but if you want to share, maybe I could ghost write it for you and you could add your own comedic flair to it.

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Stephanie Clemons's avatar

I love that you used the word "shan't" in this post!

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Stephanie Clemons's avatar

Will do!

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Joshua Jericho Ramos Levine's avatar

Well I also won $100 for writing as a teenager and that spoiled me forever too. Well technically it was $50 plus a crummy cell phone, even by 1999 standards, which I sold for $50 a couple years later.

I’m curious about this costume…some kind of acting in Kermit the Frog fan fiction of a questionable nature? Mascot for a toy store?

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Daniel Puzzo's avatar

See, so you know the feeling. That early success goes to our heads and it’s all downhill from there.

A-ha - you shall just have to wait re: the costume. Barring a change of mind, that will be the subject of next week’s post.

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