This can never happen happen again

Random quote of the day:


"Anything that occurs once can never occur again. But, should it happen twice, it will surely happen a third time."

—Paul Coelho, The Valkyries




Well. The source for the above version of this quote is Paul Coelho's own blog. But it has also been widely attributed to Mr. Coelho's novel, The Alchemist, in a slightly different version: "Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time." I'm sure there's something cosmic going on here—unless it's just a case of Mr. Coelho repeating himself. Lord knows, that's never happen, ever, in any writer's body of work. Unless it happens a third time, of course.


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The Loathing Draft

I know that I am well and truly done with a ms. when I reach what I've come to call the Loathing Draft. That's where you don't think you can read through/rewrite the damned thing one more time without doing yourself injury and there's nothing left but to finish up the edit and start sending it out.

If an agent wants changes, or an editor is willing to pay me for the book, then I will happily and yippy-skippily make the changes. Otherwise, it's time for this book to make it's way in the world. Three-quarters of the book to go, and some of that I expect to be hard sailing. The chapters I've done so far have mostly needed a language/clarification polish, but the middle of the manuscript may be something of a Sargasso Sea. Such is the writing life! Yo ho, yo ho.



A Rain of Angels

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