No, it isn't born yet
Dec. 14th, 2005 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonQuote of the day (from yesterday):
"If you remember something, then it's true. In the long run, that's what you've got."
—Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Quote of the day (from Monday):
"It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going."
—Groucho Marx
Both these quotes come from my random quote file. And they make a nice random ironic counterpoint to Monday's post of memories, don't they?
I love me some synchronicity.
Writing blah-blah of the day: No, the Novel That Will Not Be Born has not yet finished its labor pains. I keep pushing, but it's fighting to stay enwombed. Many contractions and lots of straining and I'd swear the head is crowning, but I've given up predicting when the final push will bring this baby home.
I don't remember any of my previously completed novels being this painful to give birth to, but they probably were. I guess I just glossed over the suffering part in the exhilaration of finally having something to hold. I guess every time you get a new idea all you can think about is the possibility of new life, the infusion of new energy, and you think, "It wasn't so bad last time. And I'd love to have another novel."
You remember the sweet baby smell, not the stink of loaded diapers.
Which is just as well. After the first time, probably no one would ever bring forth another novel if they didn't gloss over the difficulties of the process.
"If you remember something, then it's true. In the long run, that's what you've got."
—Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Quote of the day (from Monday):
"It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going."
—Groucho Marx
Both these quotes come from my random quote file. And they make a nice random ironic counterpoint to Monday's post of memories, don't they?
I love me some synchronicity.
Writing blah-blah of the day: No, the Novel That Will Not Be Born has not yet finished its labor pains. I keep pushing, but it's fighting to stay enwombed. Many contractions and lots of straining and I'd swear the head is crowning, but I've given up predicting when the final push will bring this baby home.
I don't remember any of my previously completed novels being this painful to give birth to, but they probably were. I guess I just glossed over the suffering part in the exhilaration of finally having something to hold. I guess every time you get a new idea all you can think about is the possibility of new life, the infusion of new energy, and you think, "It wasn't so bad last time. And I'd love to have another novel."
You remember the sweet baby smell, not the stink of loaded diapers.
Which is just as well. After the first time, probably no one would ever bring forth another novel if they didn't gloss over the difficulties of the process.
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Date: 2005-12-14 02:25 pm (UTC)I won;t even bother describing the mental image this gave me.
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Date: 2005-12-14 02:44 pm (UTC)