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Nebraska Ho!

Fri Jun 26, 2009, 8:04 PM
  • Mood: Tired
  • Listening to: No One Knows My Plan
Well, my friends, I'm off to Nebraska before heading to Taiwan, so I'll be in absentia for a month at least here. I'll miss seeing all your awesome monsters & all the conversation!

Lately I have been feeling an uncharacteristic gratitude toward Terryl Whitlatch: my oldest daughter discovered the Star Wars Wildlife beastiary among my monster books as we were packing and has been absorbed by it. Monsters & aliens have begun copopulating her princess drawings. All I can say is .. *THANK YOU TERRYL WHITLATCH* grumble grumble

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Thanks for your comment mate, and I sure will consider your suggestions.
Hey, man. Thanks for those incredibly supportive comments and for adding that one. Writing is one of those things that isn't as immediately accessible to people, and it's nice to know you felt it worth grabbing. Your opinion - and your criticisms - are something I highly value. You kick ass.
The more I see of you writing, the more I like it. You've really got talent, the raw natural kind of talent that sucks you in reading when you really should be doing something else. Do you have anything published?
I don't. I've always been afraid of submitting something. Then, I'd go through these OCD purges and end up throwing things away. It's this crappy lack of confidence thing I have going on. I'm going to try to stick with it, though. I have far more stories in my head than I do art projects. I like them both, but the writing is far more of a constant ';pull'. Like muses pulling me by the hair and trying to haul me off to the keyboard. I just get scared that I won't be good enough. Your comments have meant a LOT to me.
Tough to stick with it, man, I definitely know. I don't think I could keep it together without my family backing me up. Sounds kind of petty in some ways, but I think it's perfectly honest and natural when putting oneself on the line. We are, after all, opening ourselves up to public approval or rejection, and having that constant slice of approval from our peers is necessary to bolster us, I believe. Strangers will usually be fickle in response anyhow .. we just need the basic platform to keep going. I don't think that's unreasonable :p

I'm kinda shocked that both you and Tom aren't trying to publish your writing. I don't consider myself well-read, though I do haunt the scifi section at the library here. The only way I can combat insomnia effectively is with reading, and I've read a LOT of scifi lately, mostly short stories. BOTH of you are definitely as good if not way better than most of the authors I've been reading. I'm serious.

I was talking with one of my cousin's husband recently at a reunion & this guy is a screenwriter. He said you've just got to bite the bullet both in terms of ego and finances, print off 100 copies of your story, get a publishing magazine (I'm a little hazy on this detail), and send out your story. He said that rejection is going to be VERY high, like expect 99% rejection. But that 99% rejection means you got a 1 percent acceptance. Got me thinking anyhow.
Thanks you a lot for the watch !!! have fun on my gellery, i'll watch yours now

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