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desperanceI was just going to post in a grouchy manner about how I'd had literally no e-mails at all for, ooh, twelve hours, and where the hell was everybody? - when my inbox clattered with another acceptance, of a story I wrote at the tail-end of last year.
Again I must be discreet, until I have permission to post; but I shall naughtily quote from the letter, just so's you know why I'm strutting about the house in such a peacock-arrogant manner:
"My God you write well. The way the insights balance each other out. I
liked the whole idea of the township, and the authority of the science and
the language. Just the kind of story I was hoping for, so for me it's a
great big definite yes."
"Authority", see that? *smugs*
It's some consolation for my poor showing in yesterday's rewrite; I'd been hoping for a hundred pages, and managed less than half that. To be sure, the book is getting better; but so slooooowly...
I'd been hoping to send it away at the end of this week, but that won't be possible now. I don't believe I'm usually this slow at this stage; I had been thinking to blame the laptop, or at least my needing to use it full-time (for lo, the desktop is still not back; for lo, they have still not obtained the Dell part they need. Remind me never to use Dell again?), but then I remembered that the only decent stretches of work I'm putting in are in the Lit & Phil, where it's just me and the laptop. So, not that, then. Distractability, thy name is Chaz.
And today and tomorrow I cannot go there, because I must clean house. *is distracted*
Again I must be discreet, until I have permission to post; but I shall naughtily quote from the letter, just so's you know why I'm strutting about the house in such a peacock-arrogant manner:
"My God you write well. The way the insights balance each other out. I
liked the whole idea of the township, and the authority of the science and
the language. Just the kind of story I was hoping for, so for me it's a
great big definite yes."
"Authority", see that? *smugs*
It's some consolation for my poor showing in yesterday's rewrite; I'd been hoping for a hundred pages, and managed less than half that. To be sure, the book is getting better; but so slooooowly...
I'd been hoping to send it away at the end of this week, but that won't be possible now. I don't believe I'm usually this slow at this stage; I had been thinking to blame the laptop, or at least my needing to use it full-time (for lo, the desktop is still not back; for lo, they have still not obtained the Dell part they need. Remind me never to use Dell again?), but then I remembered that the only decent stretches of work I'm putting in are in the Lit & Phil, where it's just me and the laptop. So, not that, then. Distractability, thy name is Chaz.
And today and tomorrow I cannot go there, because I must clean house. *is distracted*