Yes, I’m still waging war on the pre-Beta revision of The Old Man. It’s going to be a while longer before I can report being done. My self-imposed deadline is four weeks away, so there’s time.

This time, rather than waffle on with excuses why I’m not further along, I thought I’d make a change and write a more lighthearted, less serious post.

Why Writing is Better Than Sex.

1. Nobody complains when they see you writing in public, and so far I haven’t had the police called on me.
2. If there is such a thing as a ‘Writing Transmitted Disease,’ it’ll be otherwise known as ‘an idea,’ which seems like the whole point of writing in the first place.
3. Writing for a living is socially acceptable, whereas prostitution is certainly frowned upon. (I have no data upon which to decide which profession pays better, so this is purely a moral argument.)
4. People have become famous for their prolific writing and have been well regarded across cultures. Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, John Steinbeck, H. G. Wells. I’m personally hard pressed to counter this particular list with a single example.
5. Not everybody is naturally born with what it takes to write. Additionally not everybody is even motivated to write. I’d be interested in any explanation as to how the human population has cleared seven and three quarter billion people if the motivations for writing and sex are of similar orders magnitude. I’m pretty sure there aren’t that many books around…
6. There are a lot of YouTube videos that deal with the writing craft without getting banned for violating the terms of service. Jenna Moreci, Kristen Martin, Vivien Reis, Author Level Up, and Ellen Brock are just a handful of examples. By and large, nobody has yet been offended by writing on the internet.

Why is Sex Better Than Writing?

In the interests of balance, I figured I should incorporate something of a response. I think you’d be better convinced, however, if you did some research of your own and drew your own conclusions.

Is That it for This Week Then?

Yup.

You can consider that a bonus reason:

7. Nobody complains if your writing gets done early.

…let’s face it. If they do complain, at least it means they’ve read it!

Up Next…

According to my Kindle I’m 20% of the way through the pre-Beta revision. I’m forcing myself to concentrate only on the highlighted areas and my edit comments rather than do my usual thing of conducting another, more clandestine read through in parallel with incorporating suggested edits.

This upcoming week is my week to get the lambs. I have a little more prep work to do for that, then I’ll be concentrating on them for a bit until we’ve all settled in together. That’ll slow me down but it can’t be helped. I was hoping to get sheep onto the property back in March, but that never worked out.

I don’t expect to be done with the revision before next week, so I’m probably going to play with some left-field ideas for the next blog post.

In the meantime, I’ll keep this one short.

Have a great week and stay safe.

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