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Azur
I do love your free-range thinking - or should that be wide-ranging thoughts? If a dry subject puts food on the table, you do it and with the 99.99% of your brain that isn't working on it, you explore the horizon. Good luck.
posted by
johnmacnab
on January 28, 2009 at 11:12 AM
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Good luck with everything . . .
posted by
Soaker
on January 20, 2009 at 10:47 AM
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Hi azur
I'm sure you'll find a way to balance it all out.. nice to be remembered I suppose:)
posted by
mneme
on January 17, 2009 at 7:54 AM
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Experts are experts and get expert publicity for their work.
This obscure topic is timely now and not next year, soooooooooo
Just consider it similar to a child getting their appendix out unexpectedly, disrupting your novel writing schedule. It could happen and you would make room for that and the appendix wouldn't even bring you a penny, a farthing, nor one rupee.
posted by
benzinha
on January 15, 2009 at 8:00 AM
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When I've managed multiple drafts its been like a pencil sharpener.
Put too fine a point on it, and it disappears.
What a terrible fate, become an unwilling but succesfully published expert! Prefer the Boho Dance, "...where artists in noble poverty go like virgins to the grave"? (Joni Mitchell, "Boho Dance" from "Hissing of Summer Lawns").
posted by
majroj
on January 14, 2009 at 8:51 PM
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I think it wonderful you were remember for your ability! And to be one of the few in the world is exceptional! Novels take a lot of work and it is all about the rewriting! I understand the changes and inability to see some things until the first drat and subsequent ones are finished! You are not omniscient! lol sam
posted by
sam444
on January 14, 2009 at 10:36 AM
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Good things
are often just around the corner aren't they? Good luck with it.
posted by
malcolm
on January 14, 2009 at 5:58 AM
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Amazing, how one-of-a-kind things come when it's time. You'd think
there was a pattern here, that threads are connected between the past and future. Wow!
posted by
Pat_B
on January 14, 2009 at 4:51 AM
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Azur
Good that some things are being put in front of you luv, that's all positive and yup, I'm still waiting for a note luv.
posted by
WileyJohn
on January 13, 2009 at 7:22 PM
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Ginnie, this is what happens http://mystic-lit.blogspot.com/2009/01/writers
http://mystic-lit.blogspot.com/2009/01/writers-middle-finger-part-two.html
posted by
Azur
on January 13, 2009 at 2:47 PM
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Good news for you Azur...
...sounds like an interesting, if challenging opportunity. Would love to know what the topic is!
I invested in an editor for my book too and it was a great experience. My book still sits unpublished and I'm not sure of the next step...if there is a next step!
posted by
ginnieb
on January 13, 2009 at 2:32 PM
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My experience of second and third and... many drafts--
is that in each round of revisions, I am looking at a different aspect of the writing. Sometimes, it's all about dialog, sometimes it's the description of the landscape, sometimes it's how things hang together and integrate, or fail to...
The time to stop is when one gets to changing things for the sake of change, rather than to improve.
posted by
Ciel
on January 13, 2009 at 10:48 AM
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