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gwynI just found out that it looks like I'm getting an essay accepted for publication in a book sometime later this year. It's been years since I've had anything published (well, in a publication not my own), and I've never had anything appear in a book with a real ISBN number and everything (except my name when I've copyedited things, and I wished the nutball authors hadn't thanked me). I haven't sold a short story in a gajillion years, but for some reason I've always had better luck with my non-fiction writing, though it's been a long time since I've tried my hand at anything.
This writing group has been the best thing for me -- not only has it encouraged my writing, but it was through the daughter of the woman who is putting together this book that I found out about the book at all. It's a little new agey, but you take your markets where you can. ;-) For a long time I've avoided writing about my mother and her death, but this felt like the time to finally start dealing with it in prose. I guess it must have clicked.
I wish I could bask, but I have a million things to do at work before I head to Chicago. And then a whirlwind weekend of travel (bleh!), and conning and vid watching and making... too much to think about, I guess. The last time I had a short story published, I remember my psycho flatmate was on the phone with someone and I'd just come back from picking up multiple copies of the magazine. I started house cleaning and she was saying to the other person, "My housemate just got a short story published and she's vacuuming. I'd be lying on the couch going 'peel me a grape.'" Maybe I don't know how to bask.
This writing group has been the best thing for me -- not only has it encouraged my writing, but it was through the daughter of the woman who is putting together this book that I found out about the book at all. It's a little new agey, but you take your markets where you can. ;-) For a long time I've avoided writing about my mother and her death, but this felt like the time to finally start dealing with it in prose. I guess it must have clicked.
I wish I could bask, but I have a million things to do at work before I head to Chicago. And then a whirlwind weekend of travel (bleh!), and conning and vid watching and making... too much to think about, I guess. The last time I had a short story published, I remember my psycho flatmate was on the phone with someone and I'd just come back from picking up multiple copies of the magazine. I started house cleaning and she was saying to the other person, "My housemate just got a short story published and she's vacuuming. I'd be lying on the couch going 'peel me a grape.'" Maybe I don't know how to bask.
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Date: 2003-08-13 10:54 am (UTC)no subject
Yay, you! Be sure to take a moment and bask at some point during the weekend.
I need some kind of "woo-hoo!" icon for times like these.
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Date: 2003-08-13 11:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-13 11:04 am (UTC)There's this thing where I never feel okay celebrating my good things because there's a sense that doing so will make them magically disappear. I hope that you're able to bask, even if basking for you includes vaccuuming (in which case, I have plenty of carpet up here in need, LOL).
And thanks for your comment on my LJ. I could really use a friend right now and will email you next week. Have a good and safe trip!
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Date: 2003-08-13 04:56 pm (UTC)Definitely get in touch next week -- I want to see if I can perk you up. ;-)
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Date: 2003-08-13 11:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-13 11:29 am (UTC)::peels a grape for you::
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Date: 2003-08-13 12:11 pm (UTC)Since you don't have the time or, apparently, the skillz, you'll just have to let the rest of us do the basking for you. You can bask vicariously.
Off to find a) chaise longue, b) grapes, c) scantily clothed men to peel them for me.
It's all for your benefit, of course.
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Date: 2003-08-13 04:58 pm (UTC)The first book had a couple writers I really love, so I hope that maybe there will be some good company folks in this one. But yeah, I'm just excited about a publishing credit, and books are so... booklike. Something you can wave around, that has permanence.
When you're done with those boys, send them my way, grapes optional.
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Date: 2003-08-13 12:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-13 05:37 pm (UTC)You go girl!
I'll make you a celebratory Pavlova when you get back. And have fun at the con, dammit!
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Date: 2003-08-13 06:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-13 06:33 pm (UTC)Congrats, Gwyn-- you certainly deserve the attention of publishers!
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Date: 2003-08-14 09:11 am (UTC)namaste SF Nancy