SEAN EADS
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Bibliography
  • About Me

General life/writing update

5/15/2020

0 Comments

 
I am trying to update my own website more frequently than once every 6 months or so. Not that I have a fanbase that cares about any of this, but here goes:

I managed to catch Covid-19 at some point in late March or early April, and started showing symptoms on April 6th. I won't go into the situation in detail, but I'll say that the whole thing lasted about 21 days and it was the sickest I've ever been in my life. It got to the point where I just left the front door unlocked at all times in case I had to call for an ambulance. Fortunately the breathing problems never quite reached the point where I had to call 911, but I went a few nights clutching my cell phone and thinking I was on the verge of needing to go to the hospital. I got lucky.

In Mid-March, I'd started writing a new novel tentatively called Confessions. I'd reached the halfway point when the disease struck. Halfway for me is almost always 40,000 words. I was at 45,000 words, so I was writing at a really good clip, about 2,000 words a day. I'm at about 55,000 words now, which shows you how slow my writing pace has become in the aftermath of the illness.

The novel is a reflection of where my personal interests are now focused, which is writing non-genre realistic fiction. It's about a gay funeral director in his late 40s who has returned to the small KY town he fled from as a youth after a terrible incident in high school. Why has he returned? What does the town think about his return? Maybe the novel will get published one day and we'll see these questions answered. Hopefully I can finish the first draft by the end of June.

(Hey, I still write a bit faster than George R.R. Martin, so there!)
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Sean Eads is a writer living in Denver, CO. Originally from Kentucky, he works as a reference librarian.

    Archives

    November 2022
    September 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    November 2021
    August 2021
    May 2021
    October 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    October 2019
    December 2018
    August 2018
    March 2018
    September 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    February 2017
    November 2016
    October 2016
    August 2016
    May 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    July 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014

    Categories

    All
    Equilibrium Overturned
    Grey Matter Press
    The Alamo Incident
    Timaeus Shields

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.