where she's been and where she's going but never what she's seen...

[lagilman]

Mmmm. Busy-social weekend*, starting at KGB on Wednesday, dinner with a friend on Thursday, then Friday night catching a friend's band playing on the UWS, then back to our new local, which is utterly wonderful and within an easy stagger distance to the burrow. Yay! Saturday was Cute Puppy in the park [and why do all the tourists stop me to ask directions? Do I look like I know how to find Strawberry Fields/the Zoo/the exit to 72nd street? Okay, so I do know those things. Lucky guess...] and what was supposed to be an afternoon of work turned into an afternoon of nap.

Ooops.

Read a bit (Lynn Flewelling's THE WHITE ROAD**), and slept on and off, until 9am this morning. Kinda tired, me.

Meanwhile, the Attack Story tells me it wants to be one of those mainstream-y things. I keep telling it there's no future in mainstream but my lizard, it is stubborn. We'll see.

Today, warned by the weather forecast, and driven by a need to be productive once again, I plan to spend hidden in the relative chill of the burrow, getting all the freelance stuff done, and working full-speed-ahead on THE VINEART WAR #3.

And then.... Leverage! Tonight, 9pm, two hours. I'll be there, will you? Shall we use this space for episode comments?




*plus, y'know, some Actual Paying Work

**It's always odd, reading a finished book when you read it in draft format. My brain keeps picking up the scenes that aren't there any more, noting the new narrative jumps, looking for information that is now being given later/differently/not at all... Fascinating on a learning level, but sort of distracting as a reader!

Comments

[irishkate.livejournal.com]

why is there no future in mainstream?

[lagilman]

As much as the genre markets for short fiction have shrunk, the mainstream markets have dried up even faster, and it seems like 80% of the ones remaining are either non-paying or take up to a year to respond to submissions. It can be done (and the ones that do pay pay very well) but it's an harder market to break into/build on. Especially for someone like me, who has the mainstream urge maybe twice a year... [vs the people who are writing mainstream stuff every day of every week... and you think a lot of people want to be genre writers? Every MFA program anywhere is turning out mainstream wanttobes.]

That said, the story will still be written, and then we'll see.

[irishkate.livejournal.com]

Always wondered. Thanks for reply. I, as a non professional, knew that mainstream could pay well. Certainly you hear about many writers who are mainstream on TV and they always seem to be making money. I guess it is like being a lawyer - some make INSANE amounts of money but since the average salary is still a normal number it shows that huge numbers must not be making ends meet as a lawyer....