The process of insanity
Nov. 2nd, 2006 03:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonSo, is there anyone out there who's not on their way to WFC? And why do I think WTF every time I see WFC? I think WFC is a perfectly fine convention and hope to go there some day, maybe next year, but my mind persists in turning it into WTF. I am some funny in the head sometimes.
Unsolicited plug of the day:
Whenever I log onto Amazon it keeps popping up with Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews--![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
iagor. (Awesome cover art, btw.) I get excited and reach for the Add to Cart button, then realize it isn't out yet (March 2007). This is a pre-order nudge. But I appreciate their eagerness to sell it to me. I'm eager to buy it. It looks good. You should check it out.
Writingness of the day:
Eudora's Song got a no-thank-you yesterday, so I did a quick read through, cut maybe another half page, and sent it back out today. It's good to keep it circulating, though I remain as unhopeful as ever. And although that's true, I'm not particularly bummed. I'm writing something new that I like so all'swrite right with the world. I'm not even mopey over the failure of Night Warrior/The Making Blood earlier this summer--though I suspect that wouldn't have been as big of a deal, either, if it hadn't coincided with my summer mopey season. And I should say that now, with the perspective of time and a new project, I don't consider that an outright failure. It's a problem that needs solving--but that's for another day.
Which reinforces yet again that it's the process that's the most important thing.
Unless, of course, you've got a publisher breathing down your neck saying, "Where's the next book, dammit?" (We should all be so lucky.) Then it's pretty much, "Screw the process! It's the outcome that's the most important part!"
Random quote of the day:
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
—Oscar Wilde
Damn straight, 'Scar.
Unsolicited plug of the day:
Whenever I log onto Amazon it keeps popping up with Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews--
iagor. (Awesome cover art, btw.) I get excited and reach for the Add to Cart button, then realize it isn't out yet (March 2007). This is a pre-order nudge. But I appreciate their eagerness to sell it to me. I'm eager to buy it. It looks good. You should check it out.Writingness of the day:
Eudora's Song got a no-thank-you yesterday, so I did a quick read through, cut maybe another half page, and sent it back out today. It's good to keep it circulating, though I remain as unhopeful as ever. And although that's true, I'm not particularly bummed. I'm writing something new that I like so all's
Which reinforces yet again that it's the process that's the most important thing.
Unless, of course, you've got a publisher breathing down your neck saying, "Where's the next book, dammit?" (We should all be so lucky.) Then it's pretty much, "Screw the process! It's the outcome that's the most important part!"
Random quote of the day:
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
—Oscar Wilde
Damn straight, 'Scar.
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Date: 2006-11-02 11:13 pm (UTC)I am considering going to WFC next year though.
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Date: 2006-11-03 02:01 am (UTC)Also: OMG, PLUG!
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Date: 2006-11-03 05:55 pm (UTC)I know. I feel like I blew it, even though I couldn't afford it this year. Next year is in upstate New York and they have snow there! Brrr. ;-)
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Date: 2006-11-03 05:01 am (UTC)Well, I'll know for next time. hehe
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Date: 2006-11-03 05:58 pm (UTC)It's going to be in Saratoga Springs, near Albany, next year. I was all jazzed about going until I checked out the weather report yesterday. I admit to being a California wimp, but being a Minnesotan, it'll probably seem balmy to you. :-)
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Date: 2006-11-03 05:13 am (UTC)Good on you for plugging right along and keeping things in circulation. Keep at it!
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Date: 2006-11-03 05:59 pm (UTC)World Fantasy Convention. It seems to be the one the writers have most fun at.
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Date: 2006-11-03 10:32 am (UTC)Magic Bites is on my Amazon.com wish list, together with a load of other books. I suppose I should just order them as a Christmas present to myself.
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Date: 2006-11-03 06:00 pm (UTC)I imagine so!
I suppose I should just order them as a Christmas present to myself.
I think you should. Treat yourself. (I'm a bad influence when it comes to buying books.)
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