I finally finished something. A short story. It isn't terrible, but I feel like crap.
I can't decide why.
Anyway, it's just a first draft, and I have ideas about how to make it better, but suddenly I don't care. Dang my Christian upbringing! Dang it to Heck! Posted by Psycho Triad (Member # 3331) on :
I buy any souls, new, used, or refurbished.
Never leave home without a spare, thats my motto.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Olivia, I'm sorry but I already sold your soul to celia to figure out if I should have gotten a ham or turkey sandwich. It was put to good use, and I greatly enjoyed that sandwhich. Thank you:).
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
*pat pat* *hug*
I'm confused about the $25.00. Is it up for auction on ebay? Did you write something to sell? Did you mention family secrets?
Maybe you should have held out for $7.00 more? Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
Livvy, you need to slip into something a little more comfortable. Let your hair down, drink a little wine. Let me rub your shoulders - so.
Are you feeling a little better yet? Here, let me feed you a chocolate...
Posted by ludosti (Member # 1772) on :
Congratulations on finishing!!
So why would actually finishing make you feel like crap? Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
SHe's upset because the joker paid her with 4 $3.00 bills and a $13.00.
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
I have quite the collection of souls. Literally. In seventh grade this guy sold me his soul for a sheet of paper. David Guidry, his name was.
Posted by JohnKeats (Member # 1261) on :
Check your email, dear, it isn't the end of the world.
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
I haven't gotten the $25.00 but I think I still have my soul, too. So that's okay.
"Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might."
Paul had some good advice, even if he was a bit of wanker. Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :
I feel that my life is complete, having seen someone write the word "wanker" on Hatrack.
It's like a little piece of Australia right on my screen.
Posted by tt&t (Member # 5600) on :
quote: It's like a little piece of Australia right on my screen
I knew Australia was made up of wankers. Hearing it admitted by one is just too funny, though.
Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :
quote:Livvy, you need to slip into something a little more comfortable. Let your hair down, drink a little wine. Let me rub your shoulders - so.
Are you feeling a little better yet? Here, let me feed you a chocolate...
-Jenny Gardener
Hot damn.
And you paid only $25 for me to imagine that? Dude, I'd have done it for free.
I'm doing it for free.
Aw yeah...
Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :
Holy hell, and Olivia followed that up with a "Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might."
Good dreams tonight.
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
Oh, man. I don't think an onanism joke has ever been called genius, but that just might be it.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
Okay. I deserved that for being so vague.
I will eventually explain myself, but it may be next week.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Well, I hope you keep enjoying yourself until then....I know Lalo will!
Kwea
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offenses of affections new.
I think all writers do that, Olivia.... sell cheap what is most dear. At least you can feel yourself in good company knowing Shakespeare felt the same way.
I often wonder what it must feel like to be the spouse or close friend or family member of a writer, and have one's life and feelings mined for art's sake. Even if nobody knows the exact details, and how it applies to you, if at all, I wonder if it isn't appalling to read intimate details of your experience converted into fiction. How can anyone stand still for that? How can writers themselves stomach it, being "one whose selfish trade it is to keep no beauty to himself"?
[ May 12, 2004, 09:50 AM: Message edited by: ak ]
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
Thank you, Anne Kate. *big hug*
Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :
Damn, dude, are you gonna get it on with every jatraquera?
Hey, another night of good dreams!
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
Hmmm...
I guess I have slept with JennyG, katharina and xnera. Mackillian and Ophelia stayed overnight at my house. So did CT, and SHE gave me a massage...
*makes check list*
*throws Lalo a doggy biscuit*
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
So, I finished the re-write on the story, and the editor got it. She's a bit swamped since the co-editor got hit with a deadline of May 3oth that she thought was July 30th (because that was what it had been on her last two contracted books, or something).
Anyway, I'm going to be nail-biting and pining until I hear something one way or the other.
I know how it will go... If I don't make the cut, I'll be sad at not having a publication credit, but I'll be glad to have time to make it better, and submit it elsewhere.
If they want it I will panic and cry over my poor, half-baked baby going out before the world. Gah! The story is a bit purple, but I read over the previous anthologies before I wrote it and seemed to fit. I really just pulled it out of my [ear]. I mean, they said they wanted a story that was xyz, and so I wrote xyz.
But somewhere along the way I became invested in the characters, and I'm torn between being really proud and wanting it published under a pen name, if they want it.
I'm dying here. *writhes with impatience*
My longtime writer-buddy read over it and her response started like this:
quote: YOU ARE SUCH A WEENIE!
It's cool to have such honest people to *thwap* me when I need it. She said my fretting over it was annoying and that I made the story better with the changes I made. And, in short, that my neediness and lack of confidence in my work was beginning to piss her off.
So now I'm coming here to piss YOU GUYS off.
Because if you can't annoy your 'cyber-family' who can you annoy?
So... now it's time for that hot bath. Posted by NdRa (Member # 2295) on :
Better than selling your soul for a forbidden donut.
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
Mmmmmm, fobidden doughnut...
*drool*
Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
*Pours the bath, adding sweet strawberry-scented bubble bath. Calls in hobbit-lads with scrubby sponges.*
Posted by Pepek (Member # 3773) on :
quote:hobbit-lads with scrubby sponges
She may have sold her soul, but she isn't in hell yet
*shivers*.. bloody hobbits..
Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
I mean sponges for scrubbing Livvy! Not those scratchy things you wash dishes with!
These lads have soft sea sponges. They'll lather up her back.
Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
"Sing Hey! for the bath at the end of day..."
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
Yay! Hobbit lads!
Still haven't heard anything, but refuse to fret over it anymore.
*relaxes in bubbles*
Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
Great, now I won't get any sleep tonight. Dreams of bubbles...
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
Hobbit lads,
...mmmmmmmm delicious if cooked over a low fire with plenty of herbs and garlic.
Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
"Pink elephants on parade!"
Posted by Altįriėl of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
Woo Hoo, way to go. Selling your soul for 25 dollars will guarentee your ticket to heaven.
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
Um, since I know you're all waiting with baited breath for news of my writing career, ( ) I just thought I'd tell you how it turned out.
The anthology isn't publishing after all, and has released the stories so we can shop them elsewhere. My feelings about this are very mixed. It's kind of a niche market and I have no idea where else to send the story, and no real desire to do so. HOWEVER, I finished something. I wrote a short story (albeit a longish one) that SOMEBODY wanted.
I'm going back to my summer activities now, and you can all resume your lives, safe in the knowledge that Olivet is still unpublished. Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Enter it in mack's writing contest. This is the added incentive for the rest of us to strive harder.
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
Um, mack has read it, so she would know better than I would, but I assume it would not be appropriate for anything mack would do.
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
If I finish a story, will Jenny give me a massage? Posted by jebus202 (Member # 2524) on :
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quote: It's like a little piece of Australia right on my screen
I knew Australia was made up of wankers. Hearing it admitted by one is just too funny, though.
I knew you hated Australians!
Posted by Anthro (Member # 6087) on :
Hobbits scare me. Small hands, smell like cabbage.
Oh, for a more profitable way to sell your soul: start taping those "comforting hugs".
Lalo, why aren't you in the Hug Thread? Lots more of this there . . . Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
As I recall, night is mentioned at some point. Just put in those two lines and I'd happily welcome it in my contest. Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
I fail to understand what you mean by 'those two lines' , but I think I may try some other places with the thing, anyway.
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) I just thought I'd tell you how it turned out.