They want another 30,000 words on this one? Kewl. Do you know what you want to start with? Do you need a confab?
They're doing it backwards; walking up the down slide.
River ,'Ariel'
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deborah grabien - Feb 07, 2006 2:34:01 pm PST #5423 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Allyson - Feb 07, 2006 2:38:05 pm PST #5424 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I have no idea yet whether they'll want more essays, fattening up of essays already there, both, or what.
I think I'm just waiting for all the contract details to get ironed out and then will talk about that with the editor.
He said some lovely things about me an email to my agent, things I don't get because they're about me.
I'm terrified of the next 30K words.
deborah grabien - Feb 07, 2006 2:45:09 pm PST #5425 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Don't be terrified. Truly. The words are there; so are the inciting incidents.
Any number of them, and we've got your back.
§ ita § - Feb 07, 2006 2:45:21 pm PST #5426 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hmm. How will we get her words out...
Allyson, I'd love to give taking a spiffy photo a shot. Can you like pictures of yourself?
Allyson - Feb 07, 2006 2:46:38 pm PST #5427 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I've hired Polgara! No. I can't like pics of myself, so maybe I'll have to depend on the folks who love me to choose.
JZ - Feb 07, 2006 2:51:59 pm PST #5428 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Please, please try at least one shot doing the "I love you" gesture. Even if you don't use it.
§ ita § - Feb 07, 2006 3:04:41 pm PST #5429 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If Polgara goes missing (frex) can I take the pictures?
Allyson - Feb 07, 2006 3:14:01 pm PST #5430 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Yep. But will you understand that I cannot look at the pictures and discern which is a good picture of me, because i have no sense of self-worth?
JZ - Feb 07, 2006 3:18:00 pm PST #5431 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Allyson, at least you're in good company. Flannery O'Connor, a Southern Gothic goddess, wrote a letter to a friend after selecting her dust jacket picture for the first edition of Wise Blood, saying:
I just got my proofs from Harcourt, Brace. The one I chose looks as if I had just bit my grandmother and that this was my only pleasure in life. All the rest were worse.
If you can manage to look at any picture of yourself and feel that it at least looks better than that, you're comparatively brimming with writerly self-esteem.
Also, dearly as I love O'Connor, I've got to admit that you have way better hair.
Allyson - Feb 07, 2006 3:41:35 pm PST #5432 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
It's difficult for the photographer, too, though. It's not that ita doesn't take gorgeous photos, it's that I'm completely unable to appreciate anything about a photo of me, and I figure, when the tears roll down my cheeks in complete self-hate, she'll feel bad.
Polgara is somewhat used to this reaction.
Of all the things about this process that make me nervous, the picture is the worst.