Sale!

[desperance]

I 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*

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Yay sale!
Cleaning is good. I also have cleaning, and I shall think of you as I clean, so that we may create cleaning harmony or some such.

[stephanieburgis.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that's the BEST kind of email. Congratulations!!!

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Cleaning energy shall crackle between us, and the whole shall be greater than the sum of our parts.

I just threw out four cardboard boxes. Having extracted Mac from each of them in turn. It was like a silent comedy, except for the noise.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Thank you kindly. It makes me smile upon the world, where previously I had been set to "grouch".

[lagilman]

Yay for sale! Sales are lovely things. As is cleaning. Alas, I shall have neither until I write some more....

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

This is all sounding very promising. 2009 may well be The Year Of Chaz.

[dedbutdrmng.livejournal.com]

I have a sudden need to print off Chaz pictures and deface Chinese calendars.

Hurrah for acceptance!


'Those born under 'The Chaz' will have a deep love of the higher things in life such as cooking, literature and theatre. They need to be careful though, relationships with those born under 'The Cat' may often lead to your house being wrecked.'

[desayunoencama.livejournal.com]

Anonymous congrats on the new sale!

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

The sale is good, the comments are GREAT! Well done.

[triciasullivan.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! (and good luck on the revisions)

[feed-your-muse.livejournal.com]

'Respect Chaz's Authority!'

Congratulations & joyous cleaning to you. (I still have carpet brushing to look forward to (ha!) - but I shall leave that until the weekend, I think. Can't face it after work)

Merry

=^..^=

[littlebutfierce]

Woo, congrats on the sale!!

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

'Respect Chaz's Authority!'

It goes without saying the cats will not.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

And yet you had to say it, didn't you? Curses!

*is utterly unrespected*

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

Only by cats. People respect you!