/lit/ - Literature

So close lads...

I wanted to get my first novel done before 25, even took a few days off work before my 26th birthday to get the current draft revised beginning to end (~64,000 words), but my ADHD-addled mind just couldn't handle it, and I fell short, which made me feel ashamed. All I have to my name writing-wise is a 5,000 word screed poem I wrote at 19 and self-published, I want this one to be special. I slept for a few days after my birthday. I've ignored it for almost a month to lift the fatigue, and I've been surprised at how much I actually finished from the first outline I made for it two years ago. I'll probably hit it again next month, revise it chapter by chapter in a slow way, complete the rest of the stanzas from the poetry I wrote in it, and commission the illustration, which will probably cost me half a grand for what I want.

Thanks for reading my blog ladds, had to get it out. Your gift for reading it is a sample of the poetry, in Saadi's metre:

> Sunset o’er great Araxes’ every canyon’s yonder chasm
> Lavished too its regal spectrum on a rooftop west Khwarazm:

> Hexafoliate daisy’d inlay, nacre ‘top a borrowed bureau,
> Glimmered sprays of gold and turquoise through fine musk in glassy limbo;

The 'glassy limbo' is the main character's eyeballs, a few other unfinished couplets will clear it up. For those who remember me here, thanks for the harsh input on my first chapter (and admittedly using the word 'lavished' instead of 'dolloped', still ashamed about that haha), I trimmed it down quite nicely because of you.