Heh. Yes, indeed, if the patter rubs wrong, the whole "urge. to. kill. RISING" thing can kick in pretty hard. I get that way about Sting.
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The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
deborah grabien - Apr 24, 2005 9:27:12 am PDT #1325 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Connie Neil - Apr 24, 2005 11:31:12 am PDT #1326 of 10001
brillig
Damn, I'm just going to have to break down and buy the DVD for Billy Idol's Storytellers then.
Of course, I just want to listen to him laugh ...
deborah grabien - Apr 24, 2005 12:11:46 pm PDT #1327 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
connie, did you know Idol's touring this summer? I don't know the schedule yet, but a tour is in the works.
Susan W. - Apr 24, 2005 3:49:56 pm PDT #1328 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Susan, I think it's what you said -- trying to find a way to control the incontrollable. I know in the summer everything slows down -- July and August -- between vacations, RWA, and summer hours. And yeah, the week before Christmas is bad because no one wants to work, and usually the week between Christmas and New Year's everyone is closed. But I don't believe anyone simply clears the decks via rejection letters. You're just looking at a longer wait time than usual since mail is going to pile up.
Thanks, AmyLiz!
I asked because at the rate I'm currently writing, I expect to have the wip rough draft finished by the end of September. Since I already edit a fair bit as I go along, I'm hoping to start querying by early November. I'm planning to only have 5-10 active queries out at once, because that's a bit of writing loop conventional wisdom that does make sense to me--don't query everyone on your list at once, because if you've got a good story and an engaging query letter, it's easier to juggle three requests for partials and/or fulls than a dozen, while if you get rejected by everyone at once, you've blown your chance to play with the query and synopsis a little more and try again.
So, to make a long story short, I can see myself wanting to send some queries in the first half of December. Of course, that's all assuming I stay on pace. I'm trying to stay flexible about all my precious plans and schedules, given my father's situation and the fact that I'm the mother of a toddler.
Connie Neil - Apr 24, 2005 4:53:42 pm PDT #1329 of 10001
brillig
connie, did you know Idol's touring this summer?
t weeps over the tour schedule that doesn't come anywhere near enough to Salt Lake that I can afford, wipes eyes.
Yes, I knew that.
deborah grabien - Apr 24, 2005 5:28:07 pm PDT #1330 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I am way pleased. I not only sorted out a humongous amount of research materials on the palace of Placentia (aka the Palace of Greenwich), I wrote some on Cruel Sister. If Minotaur declines the rest of the series, I may be writing into a void, but hell, the book wants to be written and that's what I'm going to do. It's at 10,000 words right now.
And, having discovered that I can write fiction and lyrics at the same time, I wrote the music for the song lyrics I posted.
So I feel all virtuous and shit.
sj - Apr 24, 2005 5:54:59 pm PDT #1331 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Go, Deb! That sounds like quite a productive day.
deborah grabien - Apr 24, 2005 6:47:12 pm PDT #1332 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Yes, indeed. I'm now greedily eyeing the Studiomaster head and Fender amp it's plugged into, and my vintage Gibson electrics, so very very close...
Liese S. - Apr 24, 2005 8:05:28 pm PDT #1333 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oh, deb. I'm so glad you're songwriting again.
It's a lovely set of lyrics. It has all the elements I love in a song -- the wordplay, the rhythmic groove, the passionate truth. It's great.
I fell off my songwriting wave. I was surfing the crest for quite a while, it just kept coming. But then I got busy and preoccupied. I'm on the road again, for a two week stretch this time, so I ought to set aside some time to work on it since I'll have a ton of downtime. I have some rough mixing to do for our boys' recording project, but they only got through instrumentals on two or three tunes, so it won't take me that long. I should definitely make some time to be creative this week.
Plus, I've got to rehearse my bass duet. If the SO's tendinitis clears up in time, we've got to get that ready for June.
Huh. I digressed.
Anyway, it's a gorgeous song, and I'm glad you're back in it.
Beverly - Apr 24, 2005 8:10:04 pm PDT #1334 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Deb I love the way you segue: from writing to gourmet chef, and back to writing and now all the way back to songwriting. A Renaisance woman!
There are only eight notes in the scale. Anyone who composes music has me in awe, more than painters or sculptors or even writers. How can you take eight notes and, with all the melodies in the world that are already written, come up with something new? It's operating in a dimension I can only witness from outside it.