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my life is booooring
May. 8th, 2006 12:33 pmSo. Still no feedback from the company I had the interview with. Definitely not going to work with that agent again. *grr*
Have sent out the resume to a half-dozen agents and am looking for a 6-9 month job in any Australian major city. I just need somewhere solid and stable for a while - and so I can afford the travelling I want to do in 2007. But I don't want permanent right now.
I switched profic projects. Instead of the young adults one, I'm working on a short story for adults. It's closer to the writing mindset I've been in for a while - action-adventure, psuedo military/science, and so easier to fall into, although I'm still angsting over how much info to include.
Fandom has me reaching for the 'bitch, please' clue-by-four. The human race is a wonderfully predictable group. Anytime we start to feel uncertain or threatened, we'll haul out the superiority complex and wave it around. Bigotry is an ugly word, whether applied to ethnicity, sexuality, nationality, or pairing preference - but it's like we can't help ourselves: we all need to sneer at someone.
Am re-reading Diane Duane's Young Wizards series. It's a very interesting (if slightly all-inclusive) look at the universe. And considering more crackfic. Tricky, slightly techno-wizard-y crackfic, but crackfic all the same.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mebfeather? Remember how you were saying that the character in my story was thinking older than his age? These characters think way above their age. As in way above my age!
But they're still damn good reads because they 'think above the age-group' - and so are not limited to young adults (although that's the focus group). I strongly recommend these stories. There's eight books out, 7 softcover, 1 hardcover, and all are brilliant in their own way.
Honestly? Diane Duane beats JKR into the ground and dances on her grave when it comes to believable good, evil, conflict, character development, and not-quite-ship. Proof that the most popular authors are not always the best ones.
It would be nice to be the richest woman in England. On the other hand, I think I'd rather be as good a writer as Duane.
Have sent out the resume to a half-dozen agents and am looking for a 6-9 month job in any Australian major city. I just need somewhere solid and stable for a while - and so I can afford the travelling I want to do in 2007. But I don't want permanent right now.
I switched profic projects. Instead of the young adults one, I'm working on a short story for adults. It's closer to the writing mindset I've been in for a while - action-adventure, psuedo military/science, and so easier to fall into, although I'm still angsting over how much info to include.
Fandom has me reaching for the 'bitch, please' clue-by-four. The human race is a wonderfully predictable group. Anytime we start to feel uncertain or threatened, we'll haul out the superiority complex and wave it around. Bigotry is an ugly word, whether applied to ethnicity, sexuality, nationality, or pairing preference - but it's like we can't help ourselves: we all need to sneer at someone.
Am re-reading Diane Duane's Young Wizards series. It's a very interesting (if slightly all-inclusive) look at the universe. And considering more crackfic. Tricky, slightly techno-wizard-y crackfic, but crackfic all the same.
mebfeather? Remember how you were saying that the character in my story was thinking older than his age? These characters think way above their age. As in way above my age!But they're still damn good reads because they 'think above the age-group' - and so are not limited to young adults (although that's the focus group). I strongly recommend these stories. There's eight books out, 7 softcover, 1 hardcover, and all are brilliant in their own way.
Honestly? Diane Duane beats JKR into the ground and dances on her grave when it comes to believable good, evil, conflict, character development, and not-quite-ship. Proof that the most popular authors are not always the best ones.
It would be nice to be the richest woman in England. On the other hand, I think I'd rather be as good a writer as Duane.
