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March 23, 2006
What Is This I See Before Me?
There is a new icon on my computer desktop this evening. It says
NEW FAR UPTIME NOTES 1.doc
Right now there's 1600 words of fresh material, both extracting stuff I liked from previous failed versions, and adding new material to, one hopes, make the final product suck less. Will keep adding new material, see where it goes.
Oooooh. Tingles. Tingles are good. Frankly, considering how I've been feeling, tingles are freaking bloody miraculous!
Posted by adrian at March 23, 2006 06:22 PM
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i'm gonna have to agree with pasta... we know greatness when we see it. it's only a matter of time before we get the rest of the world to see it too.
and i'm really proud of you for giving it another go.
writing is like switchbacks. you are actually getting closer to the goal even when you think you haven't gotten very far.
Posted by: river selkie at March 31, 2006 11:42 PM
Or, alternatively, blog readers turn out to have been right all along, author completes magnum opus, garners rave reviews, wins multiple literary awards, becomes filthy rich international celebrity, develops expensive cocaine-and-prostitutes habit, and retires on remaining profits to small South Pacific island to grow coconuts and watch geckos. Okay, maybe not the last two parts.
Posted by: pastamasta at March 30, 2006 07:38 PM
Great to see. I was always interested in what that story sounded like and was disappointed when you abandoned it. Fingers crossed that this time you can make it work!
Actually this raises an interesting issue with writer's blogs in general and how they may change/be changing the way authors work. An author blogs about a new project, tells his/her blog readers some story idea(s) and they get all excited about it, tell the author it sounds hot and all. The author runs into problems, decides to abandon the project but gets complaints from his/her blog fans who thought it sounded great (what do they know? They aren't writers!) Feeling guilty and inadequate the author returns to the story whips it into some sort of order and gets it published - turns out the author was right, it didn't work, reviews are awful author sticks head in oven, etc. Author's estate sues several blog readers for millions, lawyers get rich and everyone else dies (eventually).
Moral: we should've shot the lawyers when we had the chance...
Posted by: David S. at March 29, 2006 06:00 PM
Good on ya! Another project to play with is the perfect thing while you let Umbra bake in the oven of your subconscious.
Posted by: Charlie at March 23, 2006 10:16 PM
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