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pjthompsonOne of the amusing parts of the Atlanta Nights reading at Loscon were the blurbs various publishing industry people supplied. Go to the website and read them.
I love my WIP, I really, sort of do. But I really, REALLY want it to be done. I'm making good progress on it again after a busy and struggling time, but REALLY...it's a love-hate thing.
So yesterday when it was time to go back to work after lunch and the largely successful writing session was at and end, I amused myself by making up blurbs about my WIP:
I suspect these aren't as funny to others as they were to me at the time, but they certainly exorcised some demons and I had another cracking good writing session today. I crossed a whole sub-section off my "drive to the end" outline. Only four and a half more to go.
I love my WIP, I really, sort of do. But I really, REALLY want it to be done. I'm making good progress on it again after a busy and struggling time, but REALLY...it's a love-hate thing.
So yesterday when it was time to go back to work after lunch and the largely successful writing session was at and end, I amused myself by making up blurbs about my WIP:
"Riveting...a molten plug of metal jackhammered into my brain..."
"A lush and steamy wade through a swamp when it's 110 degrees and the humidity's maybe 80, 90 percent and you got a itchy rash in your shorts..."
"Thompson's workmanlike prose never fails to be like a stack of bricks lathered with wet mortar..."
"Visually stunning. I've never seen such a remarkable cover."
"A lyrical paean to getting over the hump..."
I suspect these aren't as funny to others as they were to me at the time, but they certainly exorcised some demons and I had another cracking good writing session today. I crossed a whole sub-section off my "drive to the end" outline. Only four and a half more to go.
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Date: 2005-11-30 03:39 pm (UTC)I figure the single blurb I'll ever get will be for my mention in that future unpublishable PhD thesis, MILLSTONES OF MEDIOCRITY: Forgotten Authors of the 20th/21st Centuries. My blurb will, of course be, "Forgotten with reason."
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Date: 2005-11-30 04:34 pm (UTC)Hmm, that could really go either way. :-)
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