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| Re: Mostly coherent. And with lots of footnotes. [message #47909 is a reply to message #47908 ] |
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*blush* *love* You can have my champagne (too bubbly for me), but chocolate -- yes. I anticipate spending the day under my desk with a bar of G&B.
You will get SHADOWS turned in! It will be great! Swear to commas! <3
[Updated on: Thu, 26 January 2012 21:03]
Smooshes!
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| Re: Mostly coherent. And with lots of footnotes. [message #47912 is a reply to message #47908 ] |
Thu, 26 January 2012 21:56 |
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I find it pretty funny that bell ringing is one of the things keeping me sane right now.
Yay bells! Yay ringing! We'd all like you sane and able to finish your first round with Shadows.
It was less than a fortnight ago that I finally really noticed that Jodi’s frelling* novel** is coming out on the SAME GLAMFARBING DAY THAT SHADOWS IS DUE. How frigglegobblasting unfair is THAT?
Yay, Jodi! Wishing you many more...
FairyTales - http://xkcd.com/872/
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| Re: Mostly coherent. And with lots of footnotes. [message #47914 is a reply to message #47908 ] |
Thu, 26 January 2012 23:04 |
EMoon
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Loving the footnotes...unless it's too much for you right now.
Through idiocy and the inability to think in four lines at once, last year when my agent said "Well, let's move the deadline to the end of January from the end of December," I did not think "But wait--the end of January is also the deadline for the wildlife management annual report (legally required, and failure to meet the deadline would mean dire financial things, ending very probably in losing the land--and it takes me at least six or seven days to do), and February 15 is the deadline for the guardianship of a person annual report, and tucked in there is the relatively simple but terrifying (to me) report of the person-in-guardianship's designated payee (for the disability our son gets.)
So...and I will understand if Robin hates me for this--I had to turn my imperfect book in to my agent last week, to have the week it always takes to do the wildlife management annual report, and now I have the two varieties of guardianship report to do. So it's not like being off deadline; it's like having overlapping deadlines. But the wildlife management report is in, as of this afternoon (Thursday, I mean) and I drove it down to the county seat to hand it over in person. Nine pages of the state's required form, and 19 single-spaced pages with some photos of the supplementary material. Tomorrow morning I'm starting on the other two.
I haven't been to choir (or even church at all, or full-bore grocery shopping) since Christmas Eve, struggling with my hydra of a book (that still doesn't have a workable title, and whose last puzzle piece finally fell into place the day before I sent it off.) Which is not to measure my level of panic & exhaustion against the Hellgoddess's, because that's not how it works. These things push writers to the brink, whatever their particular brink is, and that's the same thing, in the end.
Sympathy. Yeah, I get it. Rooting for you (in the interstices of trying to get stuff done before they send the sheriff after me.)
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| Re: Mostly coherent. And with lots of footnotes. [message #47916 is a reply to message #47914 ] |
Fri, 27 January 2012 03:15 |
 CathyR
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| EMoon wrote on Fri, 27 January 2012 04:04 |
"But wait--the end of January is also the deadline for the wildlife management annual report (legally required, and failure to meet the deadline would mean dire financial things, ending very probably in losing the land--and it takes me at least six or seven days to do), and February 15 is the deadline for the guardianship of a person annual report, and tucked in there is the relatively simple but terrifying (to me) report of the person-in-guardianship's designated payee (for the disability our son gets.)
Nine pages of the state's required form, and 19 single-spaced pages with some photos of the supplementary material. Tomorrow morning I'm starting on the other two.
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That's some horrendous pressure you're under.
Wishing you all the best as well.
*sends hugs and chocolate*
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.
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| Re: Mostly coherent. And with lots of footnotes. [message #47935 is a reply to message #47908 ] |
Fri, 27 January 2012 15:21 |
Kim A
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I'm still rooting for the penguin in the rainforest.
It was the only lullaby she would ever sing, and it was sung in Hell. --Laini Taylor
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| Re: Mostly coherent. And with lots of footnotes. [message #47943 is a reply to message #47926 ] |
Fri, 27 January 2012 21:36 |
EMoon
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Ah, but this was Book IV of V, and hopefully (!!!) Book V knows where it's going and will simply GO there with me trailing along typing as fast as I can. When I'm allowed to get back to it.
I do wish Book IV had a proper title. My agent said "Don't send it in untitled, but if you can't think of a good one, put on something that's obviously not good enough, or you'll be stuck with a mediocre one." So at the moment it has "Kings, Crowns, Mages, and a Dragon" stuck on it. Which is as unsuitable as the working title for the first Vatta book ("Space Opera with Fruitcakes.") All of the above are in it, but not alone (which is why the whole story needs five volumes. Or more, but five is all I get.)
Today I was very BAD in the work sense, and went out on the land for several hours, walking around and trying to take pictures of butterflies that refused to land (and one that did, bwah-hah-hah, GOTCHA! Variegated Fritillary two months early.) Then came home and crashed and slept for 2 1/2 hours. Tomorrow is the friend's father's funeral over near Salado (a distance away) for which I was lugging tables around yesterday, to the annoyance of my back.
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| Re: Mostly coherent. And with lots of footnotes. [message #47944 is a reply to message #47943 ] |
Fri, 27 January 2012 22:18 |
skating librarian
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My all time favorite title is "Bimbos of the Death Sun" a mystery by Sharon McCrumb.
It was about the "dark side" of science fiction writing and cons etc. and I blushed to be seen reading it in public for the cover was as lurid as the title. I was in FInland at the time which made it seem even stranger.
I'm funny about titles, I'll read anything by "proven" authors, but a jacket can drive me away from a likely seeming title in an instant.
I for one loved the "fruitcake" sub plot (?) sub theme (?) in the Vatta series.
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