We've experienced a hiatus in the blog

We've experienced a hiatus in the blog as I've been sorting some personal feelings and frustrations and I'm thinking now that I gave up on the novel way too easily. I gave up on the novel because I didn't like the first few chapters as a reader, and I didn't find them very convincing, even though I already subscribed to the political views they purported to advocate. As a matter of fact, I found myself beginning to lean the other way on the issues, and if your book is so unpersuasive that you convince yourself that you are wrong while you proofread, you should do the parties you're trying to advocate for a favor and say nothing. 

So I gave up on the novel, which was really not a novel at all, but a polemic. And a bad one, as discussed previously. If I began the novel over again, I would leave out the chapter about homosexual socialism and just stick to the story of the cat's health issues and their impact on the main protagonist, named after myself of course. I think, also, that I would omit the love scene with the movie star, as it does not seem to further the plot at all and I just added it to upset my wife after we had an argument. I was hoping she would fly into a jealous rage, but she fell asleep in the middle of my reading, at lunchtime, while we waited in line at the food truck. With those deletions I've gone from 24000 words to 5300, and I've already resolved the protagonist's main conflict, with his mother, over money, by getting him elected President of Mars. I've got nothing more to write about but the puppet show, which I had originally intended to be a kind of demented interlude between each chapter, with scenes of frenzied symbolic violence alternating with the gentle descriptions of late nights working in the stationary shop at the mall. 

It appears as though I was writing about the writings of Paul Theroux in my previous blog posts. I find this focus encouraging.  It means I've been getting enough sleep. Most people don't like writing about writing, finding it too abstract and academic. But I upon reviewing my own blog posts, I find that most of my writing is about what I would rather be writing or about what I previously wrote, so I feel I have made some progress