bookkeeping
Mar. 27th, 2003 10:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
truepennyThanks to everyone who responded to my previous post. Y'all are the best ever.
(btw, does anyone have opinions on whether a mass thank-you is okay LJ-etiquette? I feel like a complete doofus responding to every comment when all I have to say is "thanks!" but now I'm kind of worried that maybe it seems rude and ungrateful to everybody else that I don't. Let me know.)
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And on the subject of LJ, etiquette, and gratitude, I want to say THANK YOU for my icons, which I love and which I don't think I've given provenance for. (Bad, lazy Truepenny!) Vamp!Buffy and Drusilla are both from Pretty Pieces of Paper, bailiwick of the inimitable![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jess79. (Drusilla was made by Jess her own self; Vamp!Buffy by someone named Lar whom I worship but do not know.) The Faith icon was made for me by the marvelous rliz (also the Faith and Wes icon which is sitting on the bench this inning).
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Proj2.3: 1518 words.
And things are getting interesting! There's something enormously liberating in looking at a chapter which I wrote ca. 1997 and saying, Well, what if I don't do that? There's suddenly all kinds of room inside a story I used to know so well I was sick of it. It's exciting and daunting all at the same time. Tonight we're more with the excitement because big chunks of plot just unfolded themselves for me and it's way cool.
Other work accomplished: Revised that same damn short story I've been working on forever, and cut approximately 900 words. The first draft had started too early (I always want to tell stories IN ORDER and sometimes have to be forcibly reminded that that's not uniformly appropriate). It now awaits Mirrorthaw's attention.
Also ran necessary errands, including getting another submission in the mail. I think that's the only advice I'll ever have about getting short stories published. Just keep sending 'em out like one of those automatic tennis-ball lobbers. And don't think about it too much.
Verdict: Pretty good.
And you're stopping because ... ? Time for bed.
(btw, does anyone have opinions on whether a mass thank-you is okay LJ-etiquette? I feel like a complete doofus responding to every comment when all I have to say is "thanks!" but now I'm kind of worried that maybe it seems rude and ungrateful to everybody else that I don't. Let me know.)
***
And on the subject of LJ, etiquette, and gratitude, I want to say THANK YOU for my icons, which I love and which I don't think I've given provenance for. (Bad, lazy Truepenny!) Vamp!Buffy and Drusilla are both from Pretty Pieces of Paper, bailiwick of the inimitable
jess79. (Drusilla was made by Jess her own self; Vamp!Buffy by someone named Lar whom I worship but do not know.) The Faith icon was made for me by the marvelous rliz (also the Faith and Wes icon which is sitting on the bench this inning).***
Proj2.3: 1518 words.
And things are getting interesting! There's something enormously liberating in looking at a chapter which I wrote ca. 1997 and saying, Well, what if I don't do that? There's suddenly all kinds of room inside a story I used to know so well I was sick of it. It's exciting and daunting all at the same time. Tonight we're more with the excitement because big chunks of plot just unfolded themselves for me and it's way cool.
Other work accomplished: Revised that same damn short story I've been working on forever, and cut approximately 900 words. The first draft had started too early (I always want to tell stories IN ORDER and sometimes have to be forcibly reminded that that's not uniformly appropriate). It now awaits Mirrorthaw's attention.
Also ran necessary errands, including getting another submission in the mail. I think that's the only advice I'll ever have about getting short stories published. Just keep sending 'em out like one of those automatic tennis-ball lobbers. And don't think about it too much.
Verdict: Pretty good.
And you're stopping because ... ? Time for bed.
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Date: 2003-03-27 08:40 pm (UTC)Awww! Thanks, hon. :o) Lar, by the way, is
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Date: 2003-03-28 05:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-03-28 06:09 am (UTC)It's very good advice. It works. I only wish I wrote in more quantity so I could keep more balls in the air. (Why balls? Why not juggle turnips instead? Turnips are inherently funny.)
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Date: 2003-03-28 06:34 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-03-28 07:03 am (UTC)Ba-crunk-thunk-WHOP!
*another turnip goes sailing out into the blue*
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Date: 2003-03-28 07:11 am (UTC)The poignant "Turnip Requiem" and the lively "Hence, turnips and turnips and port! Away with old hock and potatoes!" and "I'm coming out, and I'm gonna get this turnip started."
i'll stop now.
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Date: 2003-03-28 07:34 am (UTC)The Dance of the Sugar Turnip Fairy.
Handel's long-lost oratorio, Turnip.
Ba-crunk-thunk-WHOP!
I'm sorry. I don't know what's wrong with me this morning. I'm stopping, too. I swear.
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Date: 2003-03-28 07:38 am (UTC)That one's really good. And so PC, when the Sugar Beet and the Sugar Cane are allowed to join in to create an interspecies celebration.
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Date: 2003-03-28 07:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-03-28 08:08 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-03-28 08:33 am (UTC)Fairies shouldn't have any splintery parts.