first real day of spring break was gray
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cornerofmadnessseriously, just cold rain for the fourth straight day. Oh well.
Samhain publishing rejected my novella...then again I expected them to. I wasn't expecting quite the hostile form letter though which made it clear I'm never to darken their door with this particularly story again. Blinks. Okay.I would have thought that clear anyhow but listening to some of the agents on my list, probably not.
I'm actually not very sad about it.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
silvrethorn had several good suggestions for it that I couldn't take because of the word count. I might fluff this up quite a bit and add that on in....maybe. We'll see what other publishers are looking for first.
Went to the doctor. Sigh. I need an MRI on my neck (knew that), need an endoscopy (knew that), need a study to see if my stomach is emptying right.I told her diabetes aside (diabetes slows this down) that it was possible. That's a real issue for BOTH sides of my family. We have bad guts. I'm pushing the stomach stuff until May. I mean I've had issues since I was 12. I'm not so worried about it.
Between my nexium (which ALSO slows digestion) and walmart I dropped 450$. THe one spring breaky thing in there was I treated myself to the NCIS sound track. So far I like it lots. But hell for that kind of dough I could have gone to Vegas or Florida like I had planned.
Finished The Watchmen . I got the feeling I always get when reading Alan Moore. THe emperor's wearing new clothes. I have never gotten his appeal. I've read Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta (which came the closest to me liking it) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen...and about the only character I really liked was John COnstantine but not until Moore wasn't writing him.
I didn't hate the story. I was just completely indifferent to it. Now I remember why I expunged it from my mind. I had only Ozymandius and Rorshacks' outfits left in there. Saying you didn't like this in the 80's was like spitting on the flag or something. I think what bothered me was it didn't take me long to figure out the big mysteries in this. Laurie's background, who was the evil mastermind. About the only thing I didn't get right off was how the ending was going to be achieved. I think really the big issue for me is I don't particularly like dystopic texts and outside of Nite Owl, I didn't like any of them.
Samhain publishing rejected my novella...then again I expected them to. I wasn't expecting quite the hostile form letter though which made it clear I'm never to darken their door with this particularly story again. Blinks. Okay.I would have thought that clear anyhow but listening to some of the agents on my list, probably not.
I'm actually not very sad about it.
silvrethorn had several good suggestions for it that I couldn't take because of the word count. I might fluff this up quite a bit and add that on in....maybe. We'll see what other publishers are looking for first.Went to the doctor. Sigh. I need an MRI on my neck (knew that), need an endoscopy (knew that), need a study to see if my stomach is emptying right.I told her diabetes aside (diabetes slows this down) that it was possible. That's a real issue for BOTH sides of my family. We have bad guts. I'm pushing the stomach stuff until May. I mean I've had issues since I was 12. I'm not so worried about it.
Between my nexium (which ALSO slows digestion) and walmart I dropped 450$. THe one spring breaky thing in there was I treated myself to the NCIS sound track. So far I like it lots. But hell for that kind of dough I could have gone to Vegas or Florida like I had planned.
Finished The Watchmen . I got the feeling I always get when reading Alan Moore. THe emperor's wearing new clothes. I have never gotten his appeal. I've read Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta (which came the closest to me liking it) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen...and about the only character I really liked was John COnstantine but not until Moore wasn't writing him.
I didn't hate the story. I was just completely indifferent to it. Now I remember why I expunged it from my mind. I had only Ozymandius and Rorshacks' outfits left in there. Saying you didn't like this in the 80's was like spitting on the flag or something. I think what bothered me was it didn't take me long to figure out the big mysteries in this. Laurie's background, who was the evil mastermind. About the only thing I didn't get right off was how the ending was going to be achieved. I think really the big issue for me is I don't particularly like dystopic texts and outside of Nite Owl, I didn't like any of them.
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