ok. i’ve arranged a hotel room for tomorrow night. i need to: – panic – call the hotel in austin and find the best way to get from the airport to the hotel, although i might just say screw it and take a cab, because i’ll have been travelling something like 18 hours at that point (though i think it’s only 12 hours elapsed time) (went with supershuttle reservations; thanks, !) – check the train times tomorrow for going to ennis – make bread so ted doesn’t starve to death…
take me where i cannot stand
The point at which I start thinking, “…oh…well…yeah, that looks fine…” is the point at which it’s time to be done revising for the day. My brain doesn’t clear up after that, so all I end up doing is staring at manuscript pages I’m going to have to go over again tomorrow. I’ve added about 3300 words to the manuscript and actively subtracted, in chunks, maybe a thousand, so I’m probably up about 4K on wordcount. No really significant changes to the story, but I think I’m managing to add…
another update! in case you were feeling neglected!
is up and running. It’s an open community, created largely for my ease in harrassing the Wrimos I know into doing their words in November 2006. Feel free to join. :) has some wise things to say about vanity publishing. (She links to my earlier comments about getting published in general in that post. It all gets very circular!) I’m about a third of the way through the COYOTE revisions. I think I’m slowly improving it. Perhaps tomorrow I’ll manage fewer blog postings and more revising. :) (For some reason…
my friends RULE FROM ORBIT
Oh, thank God, posted so now I can. You know a few weeks ago I sent you to read her chapter in the contest she was participating in? She just won the grand prize. A tv development deal with Fox TV Studios. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA *SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEE* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! I AM SO EXCITED AND PROUND AND HAPPY AND *SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEE*! Go congratulate her. *beams and beams and beams and BEAMS*!
on getting published, apparently
A friend just emailed me asking for advice for a friend of /hers/; he’s written a novel and while he says everyone who’s read it can’t put it down, he doesn’t know how to get it into a publisher’s hands. He says it crosses genres, so he doesn’t even know where to start, and that he knows it would sell if he had an agent but he knows he can’t get an agent without having sold. He’s considering vanity publishing, because he doesn’t know what else to do. So what,…