Apparently 48ish hours is more or less enough to recover from soul-crushing rejection. Although I’m still not very hungry. Hopefully the Rejection Diet will knock a few pounds off and keep ’em off, though. (Take your silver linings where you can get ’em, I guess.) The plan at the moment is to tell Anna that she may keep the HoS manuscript for another three months, to re-read, as she wanted to do that, but she may not lend it to her sisters to read, and at the end of three…
wounds licked. plans formulating.
Apparently 48ish hours is more or less enough to recover from soul-crushing rejection. Although I’m still not very hungry. Hopefully the Rejection Diet will knock a few pounds off and keep ’em off, though. (Take your silver linings where you can get ’em, I guess.) The plan at the moment is to let her keep the manuscript for another three months, to re-read, as she wanted to do that, and at the end of three months I would like it to either be returned or destroyed. Presumably destroyed, since I…
ok, that made me happy :)
Ok, that made me happy. Bosco’s just called to tell me that the new Ultimate Thor bust is in, and that it’s very cool (it is!) and that they’ve reserved one for me. Gooood comic shop. Goooood boys. I needed a little cheer. :)
yesterday sucked.
Yesterday sucked, all in all. I went to bed at 8:30 and got probably ten hours of sleep. This morning Chanti and I went on a walk. At least I’ve gotten some exercise for the day already. miles to Rivendell: 125.7
licking my wounds
Ok, less shell-shocked this morning, so more details. She really, *really* liked the book. A lot. So much so that she wants to keep the manuscript so her sisters can read it. But she doesn’t think it’s ready for publication. (Argh! It’s good enough to give to family, but not to buy? Argh!) She wants me to go back to it in a year or so and rewrite entirely, with an eye to a bunch of specific things that she said. If I do that, she would like to see…