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Greetings in the name of his Majesty, Emperor Hailie Selassie I! Jah! Rastafari! & I say that, in spite of not having sailed a submarine for a couple of months now, not since the birth of "Trinities"--or sharing this religious belief of the holy U-boat, or any religion at all; with my paranoid schizophrenia, it's best to stay away from religion, for whatever it eats, it hates. Yet I find myself strangely attracted to the Cult of the Dyer, perhaps because of the deluxe & delightful Bumble Bee Girl. It's good for her, & whatever the reasons for religion's existence may be, it is adaptive, & something we do because we are human, & screw the Limousine Liberal, opiates are good for people.
Yesterday, the Perky Pam Layout was closed, because Cheri was gone, so I re-made/re-modeled "Trinities" in the morning. We met Kathy at the Soup Kitchen, then she came over here to clean our dream home. We watched a couple episodes of Buffy, then Trish went to have her hair trimmed. When Kathy finished, we watched our new Shania Twain DVD, & then she had to split, because she had no time to waste. After supper--fish sticks & tater tots--I worked on "Trinities" some more. My intention is to submit it to Critters (www.critique.org) by Wednesday, in time to do an MPC (Most Preductive Critter) Award, so I can have it reviewed immediately, & off in the mail back to Analog shortly. aburt is going out of town in June for a month, so if I wanna do this thing, I hafta do it fast.
Critters, for those of you not familiar with it, is the online science fiction, fantasy, & horror writers' workshop of which I'm a member. I'd highly recommend it to anyone thinking of becoming a science fiction author, especially a pro writer. The workshop is, of course, of most benefit to people who write "formula" literature; someone like myself, who actually does boldly go where Nobodaddy has gone before, usually receives bad advice from the group. Their advice on The Mind-Warp Era was so bad I had aburt yank the remaining chapters from the queue, & I finally resorted to POD just to see it in print. Which may have been a mistake; books are expensive & sales are poor.
However, Ted Grosch has just emailed me last night, concerning a proposed parallel document, The Bio-Psych Wars, still about W.C. "Lead" Leadbeater, but done within the confines of the SF genre, even, if possible, the hard science sub-genre. This means figuring out how the monad & Bender Shaft both work. You can still buy the original at www.iUniverse.com or www.amazon.com, but the re-make/re-model, difficult though doing it might be, we want to submit to Analog as a potential serial. OK, if it doesn't sell there, we send the book off to all the familiar genre publishers, but the benchmark I am pressing for is publication in that magazine.
The Perky Pam Layout will be open today--oh, yummy, lunch without a bowl of soup!--& the mighty Insect Slayer & I will be going shortly, even though I should probably stay home & rework "Trinities". It's approaching the point of being "done", though, so I'll look at it tonight once more (probably without inviting Jeffer Auss over), then reformat the thing to Critters format & save it as a text file, so I can email it. I only have one day to do this in, as the new batch of stories at Critters comes out every Wednesday, & that day I'm being TAed by Carmen, as she's going to a rock-&-roll concert--the Egos, I believe--Thursday & Friday. Fred is coming over this afternoon to teach Trish guitar, so I only have a day, perhaps even 1/2 a day, to goof off once "Trinities" is sent off, then I have to start writing critiques. Same deal as last time (23 crits): start with the SF stories, move on to F, then do H as a last resort.
& so it goes. (I am really Curt Vague-&-Nuts. I wrote Venus on the Half-Shell, but lost all the buckadingdongs in the lawsuit.)
Yesterday, the Perky Pam Layout was closed, because Cheri was gone, so I re-made/re-modeled "Trinities" in the morning. We met Kathy at the Soup Kitchen, then she came over here to clean our dream home. We watched a couple episodes of Buffy, then Trish went to have her hair trimmed. When Kathy finished, we watched our new Shania Twain DVD, & then she had to split, because she had no time to waste. After supper--fish sticks & tater tots--I worked on "Trinities" some more. My intention is to submit it to Critters (www.critique.org) by Wednesday, in time to do an MPC (Most Preductive Critter) Award, so I can have it reviewed immediately, & off in the mail back to Analog shortly. aburt is going out of town in June for a month, so if I wanna do this thing, I hafta do it fast.
Critters, for those of you not familiar with it, is the online science fiction, fantasy, & horror writers' workshop of which I'm a member. I'd highly recommend it to anyone thinking of becoming a science fiction author, especially a pro writer. The workshop is, of course, of most benefit to people who write "formula" literature; someone like myself, who actually does boldly go where Nobodaddy has gone before, usually receives bad advice from the group. Their advice on The Mind-Warp Era was so bad I had aburt yank the remaining chapters from the queue, & I finally resorted to POD just to see it in print. Which may have been a mistake; books are expensive & sales are poor.
However, Ted Grosch has just emailed me last night, concerning a proposed parallel document, The Bio-Psych Wars, still about W.C. "Lead" Leadbeater, but done within the confines of the SF genre, even, if possible, the hard science sub-genre. This means figuring out how the monad & Bender Shaft both work. You can still buy the original at www.iUniverse.com or www.amazon.com, but the re-make/re-model, difficult though doing it might be, we want to submit to Analog as a potential serial. OK, if it doesn't sell there, we send the book off to all the familiar genre publishers, but the benchmark I am pressing for is publication in that magazine.
The Perky Pam Layout will be open today--oh, yummy, lunch without a bowl of soup!--& the mighty Insect Slayer & I will be going shortly, even though I should probably stay home & rework "Trinities". It's approaching the point of being "done", though, so I'll look at it tonight once more (probably without inviting Jeffer Auss over), then reformat the thing to Critters format & save it as a text file, so I can email it. I only have one day to do this in, as the new batch of stories at Critters comes out every Wednesday, & that day I'm being TAed by Carmen, as she's going to a rock-&-roll concert--the Egos, I believe--Thursday & Friday. Fred is coming over this afternoon to teach Trish guitar, so I only have a day, perhaps even 1/2 a day, to goof off once "Trinities" is sent off, then I have to start writing critiques. Same deal as last time (23 crits): start with the SF stories, move on to F, then do H as a last resort.
& so it goes. (I am really Curt Vague-&-Nuts. I wrote Venus on the Half-Shell, but lost all the buckadingdongs in the lawsuit.)
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