hey, LJ…

Hey, LJ-land, does anybody know where I built this (my default) usericon? -eyes it- I wouldn’t mind my hair being that long again. Preferably without the two year wait to /get/ it that long…

yay!

*does the happy dance*

-startled-

Goodness. Image Comics just turned Chance down. I’m completely taken aback, mostly because I didn’t expect to hear *anything* from them. It’s a direct little rejection letter saying, in essence, “Good try, but not good enough.” On the positive side, I just turned the galleys in… (eta: let me mention that I’m not crushed, destroyed, or hurt or anything. I’m really just startled. I’m sort of like, “Well then! Guess that’s that!” O.O)

blee

This is not the stage of the manuscript when you want to be working through it and finding whole pages you’ve marked up with red ink. In theory you’ve moved well beyond that by the time you get to the galleys. Ahahahah. >.< Usually I don't have quite this many markups. OTOH, usually I haven't rewritten a book four or five times. There's stuff where I just managed to not see that I'd screwed up the punctuation after revising a scene eight hundred times, or where a sentence that made…

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a very pleasant evening

I had a very nice afternoon and evening yesterday. I went into town with Ted and parked myself at a cafe to work for a while. Right about the time that it was clear I was going to fall asleep, arrived and we talked non-stop for two and a half hours. :) She reminded me greatly of Emma Thompson, only with red curly hair* and an Irish accent. It was incredibly enjoyable, and I am very glad to have met her. I am also very glad that Livejournal exists, because…

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