Strange dream of the week

[annathepiper]

I think I had what arguably could be my first "trying to be a professional writer" dream this morning. Apparently, Dream Me was trying to sell a manuscript to Teresa Nielsen Hayden--but it was a manuscript that seemed to be a retelling of a John Scalzi novel, only from Persephone's point of view. But Dream Me was waffling about the whole concept, too, and as I awoke, I found myself thinking about backing off selling the manuscript and just calling it the longest piece of Scalzi fanfic ever.

I am amused that my subconscious decided to latch onto Scalzi as the "other writer" in this scenario, given that whatever story Dream Me was working with was not Old Man's War, the only thing I've read by him to date. Neither was the retold version Queen of Souls, either, my Persephone story.

I should, I guess, be taking this as a sign to raise the priority on reading the two other Scalzi novels I've just bought--The Ghost Brigades and The Android's Dream--though he's going to have to wait until I'm done with Cory Doctorow. ;) (General note: Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town? Excellent. More on this to come.)

And, clearly, I'm twitching to get started on editing Queen of Souls, too!

Comments

[angharads-house.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's definitely a "go do it" dream!

-- and you should be able to find a certain A R[honwyn] L***s romance at Chapters-Indigo in Canada :-) Always love the way the cataloguing-in-publication w[orks]. (as usual, my Google-phobia kicks in)

[annathepiper]

I did say I'd give my beta readers until the 29th, so Queen of Souls still has a couple of days before I dive in. :)

And thanks! I shall have to go a-searching next time solarbird and I come up to Vancouver.

[angharads-house.livejournal.com]

Well, do let me know when you and or Birdself are a-Vancouverward -- looks like I will be spending Sunday PM to Tuesday PMs/Wednesday AMs there every other week, with the new job. Downtown; comes with paid staff-condo accomodation too, plus the float-plane to/from Royston will be on their nickel.

Now all I have to do is just get back from freshlugginer sleety New England to start that job -- already am getting wierd problematic e-mails from the person who I am replacing. Not problems with me, but, mmm, with stuff I will be "inheriting" as programme manager. Guess that's why they were offering the big bucks.

Good luck on Queen of Souls : I'd offer to beta-read but I'm in the throes of writing one and editing another and know that there's no way I could give your work the good close reading it would deserve *_* -- no rest for the wicca'd, y'know (couldn't resist....)

Gotta get cracking on AWA contrib for upcoming disty. APAs are old tech but good tech...

[annathepiper]

Oh, hon, I don't expect anybody working on their own writing projects to beta read for me, so no worries. :) I have been known to trade beta work with other writers, but I know it's hard to jump out of working on your own stuff to beta read for somebody else.

Thanks for the good luck wishes though. ^_^ Hope the new job and your APA work go well!

[angharads-house.livejournal.com]

Arû, I think I need a writing user-icon for this account ^_^

I really like the way that you set up an LJ account for writing matters, and for dealing with beta-reading, statistics, etc. It's a bit more work to do than I feel like taking on right now, especially as the goal of the present tenday is to concentrate on the writing itself, rather than on the business and logistics thereof. Hope that makes some sense; I have found great advantage to going on retreat, as now, far from where my day-job is, and just sitting down to do it.

Other problem, of course, is one that afflicts all of us who work pseudonymously, and even moreso those who actively shun the limelight (and change pen names for different projects, and generally piss off would-be biographers and cataloguers), and that's that a web-presence is a bit too much of a presence sometime. I'm sure you've run into other folks, in the concom scene, etc., who are equally hinky about personal privacy. Maybe too hinky, perhaps guilty as charged, as having sacrificed some chance to make sales when I've felt really hermittish.

Sorry for the tangent there, guess that's what happens when one's gone for a long walk in a snow-shower down by the river, just to get away from the keyboard for a while.

AWA, by the way (the APA) is mainly populated by writers and editors these days, which is what makes it worth sticking with as long as I have (and it, itself, is something like 30 years running already). Sometimes continuity=goodness.

Stay warm and well,

Angharad
dreamer of self-correcting diphthongs, and of magical keyboards whose letters are not rubbed-off by overly-energetic keypounding.