Sunny and 62˚F here in Providence, and the first genuinely cool weather of the autumn is on its way. Tonight's low is forecast at 46˚F, and tomorrow's high may be only 64˚F. I hope I'm ready for this. Last night, my sinuses ached as the weather shifted and the rain began. But the rain is always one of the best sounds, just like Edna St. Vincent Millay promised it would, even to those of us still above ground.
Lately, I am longing for the days when people had time to read blogs. When they took the time to comment, so I knew I wasn't speaking to an empty room. But ain't it a fine echo chamber? And the world moves on, right?
Yesterday, I added 1,241 words of new prose to the Still Untitled Mars Novella (SUMN) and did a shit-ton more editing. Five hours. I'll very probably finish it this afternoon, and find a title. I'll likely need one more day to polish the text, but then it will be finished, and the manuscript for Mythos Tales (Centipede Press, 2017) will be whole again.
The very definition of disheartening is receiving my advance for the Brazilian edition (Portuguese language) of Two Worlds and In Between and discovering that a whopping 23.5% was taken by agent commissions and foreign taxes.
There are new eBay auctions. Please take a gander.
Later Taters,
Aunt Beast
Lately, I am longing for the days when people had time to read blogs. When they took the time to comment, so I knew I wasn't speaking to an empty room. But ain't it a fine echo chamber? And the world moves on, right?
Yesterday, I added 1,241 words of new prose to the Still Untitled Mars Novella (SUMN) and did a shit-ton more editing. Five hours. I'll very probably finish it this afternoon, and find a title. I'll likely need one more day to polish the text, but then it will be finished, and the manuscript for Mythos Tales (Centipede Press, 2017) will be whole again.
The very definition of disheartening is receiving my advance for the Brazilian edition (Portuguese language) of Two Worlds and In Between and discovering that a whopping 23.5% was taken by agent commissions and foreign taxes.
There are new eBay auctions. Please take a gander.
Later Taters,
Aunt Beast
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Me too. Yesterday I was reading old entries from 2004. I never had many readers but at least there were a few.
I am not ready for winter.
Welcome.
Fingers crossed and still looking forward.
The very definition of disheartening is receiving my advance for the Brazilian edition (Portuguese language) of Two Worlds and In Between and discovering that a whopping 23.5% was taken by agent commissions and foreign taxes.
Augh. You might as well have an office job if you want to lose that much of your money. I'm so sorry.
I'm curious - have you watched 'Tale of Tales', the 2015 film from Matteo Garrone? I've heard good things about it, but haven't yet seen it.
Looking forward to reading the resurrected story! The Mary Shelley muse must have tapped your shoulder for this one.
I did, and I loved it.
I'll have to bump it up on my Watch list... thanks!
You're one of my major inspirations and have been for a long time. I will read your blog for as long as you're writing in it. I've been going through serious depression for some time, and reading what you write is something that brightens my world a little bit every day.
Now I'm sitting here thinking that "Those Still Above Ground" would be a good title, maybe not the Title you're looking for for your story. But a good title for something.
Thank you for reading.
Anyway. I've been here almost daily for over a decade, and I'm listening, even if I don't pipe up. I'm not going anywhere, either, until they turn the lights off at this joint and kick us out.
Edited at 2016-09-25 03:52 am (UTC)
I'm new here; I read The Drowning Girl a few weeks ago on recommendations from some friends, and I'm not used to my post-reading author-googling turning up a LiveJournal that's still updated every day.
(And I do still read every day. I don't often have anything to say myself, but I read, because it's been too long to quit.)
I read and I feel and I hope that every entry is a cry of triumph, against the word-counts and the deadlines.
Edited at 2016-09-25 09:39 am (UTC)
Edited at 2016-09-25 07:42 pm (UTC)
global amnesia has taken too many of my words, and i feel like even if I could drag words from my brain they aren't saying anothing meaningful.