It's dark on purpose so just listen
Jul. 12th, 2005 04:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonI passed 99,000 words on The Novel yesterday. Can I finish this up in another 40k as I'd hoped? Maybe. That's about 160 pages. I can't imagine this going longer than that, but my friends laugh at me when I make such a statement. No really, I think it's possible. Really. Stop laughing!
Boy who cried wolf of the day: About 2 this afternoon we had a fire drill—a serious, scheduled fire drill. We've had so many of these that nobody takes them seriously. If a real god-forbid happened, many of us would probably perish as we take the time to finish the sentence we're typing before grabbing our belongings and leaving.
Darling du jour: It's dark on purpose so just listen.
It keeps playing and playing in my mind. And the best part is that I don't have to ever cut it ever because it isn't mine. It's the first line of a poem by Lawrence Raab called Visiting the Oracle. If you want to read it all, go here, two poems down:
http://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/lr-visit.htm
Goofy thought of the day: Menachem is beggin' the question.
(My) Cliché du jour: But the denial died on my tongue.
Boy who cried wolf of the day: About 2 this afternoon we had a fire drill—a serious, scheduled fire drill. We've had so many of these that nobody takes them seriously. If a real god-forbid happened, many of us would probably perish as we take the time to finish the sentence we're typing before grabbing our belongings and leaving.
Darling du jour: It's dark on purpose so just listen.
It keeps playing and playing in my mind. And the best part is that I don't have to ever cut it ever because it isn't mine. It's the first line of a poem by Lawrence Raab called Visiting the Oracle. If you want to read it all, go here, two poems down:
http://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/lr-visit.htm
Goofy thought of the day: Menachem is beggin' the question.
(My) Cliché du jour: But the denial died on my tongue.
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Date: 2005-07-13 02:29 am (UTC)Those who've read my stuff laugh at me for similar statements. :)
Just tell the story and don't fret about the end count. While I can promise from personal experience that it's harder to market something long, it's also hard to market crap that doesn't engage the reader, so type on and see where it goes.