There’s nothing like a revision letter to make you feel like you can’t write. Yes, yes, I know I rather demonstratively *can* write, and I don’t need any reassurances on the subject, it’s just that revision letters always make me feel like I might as well just fling the book into a pit and myself after it, since obviously I’m incapable of communicating what I was trying and the story is a failure and so on and so forth, even when the revisions are really fairly minor, dealing almost exclusively…
worky worky work
Today was Fair Trade Day. There were four of us volunteering, and almost no business, so the shop looks *very* tidy and attractive now. :) On the train on the way in, the first bits of a story-ish thing that I’ve had vague plans to do something with popped into my head, so when I came home, instead of working on HoCH, I wrote 1500 words of storybits: I was a plain child, although I did not know it at the time. It is only now, looking back at daguerreotypes…
Yay! Contracts!
Contracts in the mail! Yay! Maybe I’ll walk to the post office instead of the store! :) -does a little dance- Also, final cover copies in the mail! With the Charles de Lint quote! And my name is definitely bigger! Yaaay! Also, DRESDEN FILES in the mail! YAAAAAAAAY! Thank you, ! This is a Good Mail Day! Yaaaaay! Yaaaaay! Here! To celebrate, have the opening chapter of COYOTE DREAMS! :)
on cats & pirates
After several days of feeding the cats separately, I have concluded pretty conclusively that Lucy is not interested in overeating for food’s sake. She was clearly overeating so Zilli didn’t get the food. She’ll still charge in toward Zilli’s food if she’s near it when I set it down, but if I pick her up and take her into the other room and feed her, she eats a very moderate, even tiny, amount, and then is finished. Of course, she’s on ordinary cat food now, instead of the easily digestible…
-breaks down down laughing until i cry-
, who is what I consider to be really truly American, ethnically speaking, is participating in this ongoing discussion regarding racism. Right now the discussion is focused on racism in the publishing industry. One of her debate partners feels strongly that anyone who has any black genetic material in their makeup is by default black, and that claiming to be anything other–like, multiracial–is selling out and so on and so forth in that manner. Now, what I can remember of Sarah’s ethnic background off the top of my head includes…