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pjthompson) wrote2006-06-09 09:52 am
pjthompson) wrote2006-06-09 09:52 am
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Wielding scissors
Quote of the day:
"I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil."
—Truman Capote
Today's quote cracked me the hell up when I pulled it out of the random file. That's because I spent the week working on an old novelette, "Loose Dogs." I cut 1500 words and it's still 9k. *sigh* At least it's tighter. I'm not sure if it's at that magic place of "I can't cut it anymore and do justice to the story" (I suspect it isn't), but I've exhausted the subjectivity of my current perspective. I'll probably slap it up on the OWW one of these days soon and take it from there.
And I'll probably work on more stories for awhile before tackling another long project. Try to catch up on some critiques. I'm creatively tired right now and just want to kick back. I feel pressure to jump right back into something big again, but I tell myself to ignore that man behind the curtain—for the time being anyway. I needs me some rest. And time to get over that bluesy feeling that hits after every big project is done.
In other news:
Lynn's birthday is coming up in July and to celebrate we're going on a tour of "the most famous and infamous sights of death, murder and scandal in Los Angeles." She picked that over the nighttime ghost tour of L.A. and the Queen Mary ghost tour. It should be a blast. :-)
http://www.dearlydepartedtours.com/DDT/index.html
You know, one of the things I really love about this town is how chock-full of good old fashion sordidity it is. Gotta love it.
"I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil."
—Truman Capote
Today's quote cracked me the hell up when I pulled it out of the random file. That's because I spent the week working on an old novelette, "Loose Dogs." I cut 1500 words and it's still 9k. *sigh* At least it's tighter. I'm not sure if it's at that magic place of "I can't cut it anymore and do justice to the story" (I suspect it isn't), but I've exhausted the subjectivity of my current perspective. I'll probably slap it up on the OWW one of these days soon and take it from there.
And I'll probably work on more stories for awhile before tackling another long project. Try to catch up on some critiques. I'm creatively tired right now and just want to kick back. I feel pressure to jump right back into something big again, but I tell myself to ignore that man behind the curtain—for the time being anyway. I needs me some rest. And time to get over that bluesy feeling that hits after every big project is done.
In other news:
Lynn's birthday is coming up in July and to celebrate we're going on a tour of "the most famous and infamous sights of death, murder and scandal in Los Angeles." She picked that over the nighttime ghost tour of L.A. and the Queen Mary ghost tour. It should be a blast. :-)
http://www.dearlydepartedtours.com/DDT/index.html
You know, one of the things I really love about this town is how chock-full of good old fashion sordidity it is. Gotta love it.