{"id":151,"date":"2005-02-02T17:22:23","date_gmt":"2005-02-03T02:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2005\/02\/02\/i-i-i-i\/"},"modified":"2005-02-02T17:22:23","modified_gmt":"2005-02-03T02:22:23","slug":"i-i-i-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2005\/02\/02\/i-i-i-i\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8230;. I&#8230;. I&#8230;. I&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what to say. I don&#8217;t. it&#8217;s a SERIOUS vote of confidence, a TOTAL ego kick, and completely shocking. completely.<\/p>\n<p>i joined a writers \/ thinkers \/ artists board the other day. Been having quite a bit o&#8217;fun. Was told by the owner to submit an exerpt of AbO  so that they could help me with any bits that might need it, and at least I&#8217;d get some fresh blood&#8217;s opinion on it all. So I finally relented and did so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reachthecolors.com\/eclat\/past\/000546.html\">And here are parts of todays&#8217; conversation&#8230; whereupon he actually compared me to one of my favorite authors. Me! compared to Terry Goodkind! The one who&#8217;s signed book I was salivating over not too long ago!<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nME!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m shocked. Stunned. and I don&#8217;t mind admitting it &#8211; a little in love. *LOL* [ok, the last is a stretch, but still!]<\/p>\n<p>We began speaking about publication and stuff and a deal he&#8217;s working on for self publishing and such. Told him i wanted to go the official route with this one, but was a little timid and unsure where to start. [bolded parts are my emphisis]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n[12:39] [S] first, yay for you.  Shoot for the stars, if you land on the moon, you&#8217;ve still travelled pretty damn far.<\/p>\n<p>[12:40] [S] second: that&#8217;s the wrong attitude to take if you&#8217;re going after publishers<\/p>\n<p>[12:40] [Lessa] *LMAO* I so knew that was gonna be number 2. <\/p>\n<p>[12:40] [S] be aggressive, sweet, like a used car salesman with a sales quota<\/p>\n<p>[12:41] [S] 200 people are gonna say no without even reading it, because the format is wrong or some stupid shit like that, 10 are gonna say yes, but they&#8217;re going to want you to rewrite it so that Sarah gets kidnapped by sex vampires and has to dance in the nude by a midnight firelight for their pleasure<\/p>\n<p><b>[12:42] [S] you are holding in your hands a bestseller.<\/p>\n<p>[12:42] [S] it&#8217;s good, Lessa, damn good<\/p>\n<p>[12:42] [S] I read it, and most people can&#8217;t do what you do<br \/>\n<\/b><br \/>\n[12:42] [Lessa] Oh I fully intend to be when I get to that point. Right now i&#8217;m still overcoming the &#8220;holy hell what am I thinking&#8221; bit in my head. When I want something, I can be ruthlessly agressive. I think that once I&#8217;m done with the editing [and i&#8217;m noticing as some people are posting their comments that I&#8217;m geting to that point. it&#8217;s MINE and I wrote it that way for a REASON!&#8221; mindset] <\/p>\n<p>[12:43] [Lessa] really? I&#8230; well, having just met ya&#8217;ll and shit? that really means More to me then hearing that from my family who has to like it. Thank you.  <\/p>\n<p>[12:43] [S] meh don&#8217;t thank me<\/p>\n<p>[12:43] [S] but you&#8217;re welcome<\/p>\n<p>[12:44] [S] there are a thousand wannabe writers out there who have ideas, but god love them, no talent to save their souls<\/p>\n<p><b>[12:44] [S]you have the ideas and the talent, so you have to put away that unsurety right now<br \/>\n<\/b><br \/>\n[12:45] [S]don&#8217;t write this book wondering if it&#8217;s good or not<\/p>\n<p>[12:45] [S] it will show in your writing to an experienced proof reader<\/p>\n<p>[12:45] <Lessa> oh man. My best friend? would love you.  <\/p>\n<p><b>[12:45] [S] be confident. you&#8217;re good.<br \/>\n<\/b><br \/>\n[12:46] [S] well I&#8217;m not telling you this because I&#8217;m your friend, sweet.  We just met and I can&#8217;t really call you &#8220;friend&#8221; yet, although I don&#8217;t mind admitting that I like you muchly.<\/p>\n<p>[12:46] [Lessa] It is good. That&#8217;s why i can defend the way i wrote it. Because I know it&#8217;s not only right, but the only way it could have been written. And I&#8217;m the only one who could have written it. Sarah chose me for a reason. <\/p>\n<p>[12:46] [S] bah<\/p>\n<p>[12:46] [S] there you go with that &#8220;sarah chose me&#8221; stuff again<\/p>\n<p>[12:46][Lessa] I know, which is why it means that much more. you don&#8217;t HAVE to like it. or think its good. you do &#8211; on the merits of my talent alone. <\/p>\n<p>[12:46] [S] exactly!<\/p>\n<p>[12:46] [Lessa] *LOL* <\/p>\n<p>[12:47] [S] you ARE sarah.  Without you, there is no sarah.  Sarah could not have &#8220;chosen&#8221; any other.  And while it&#8217;s sweet for you and TG to say &#8220;thanks to my characters for choosing me&#8221;, the truth of the matter is that it&#8217;s all you, and you need to pat yourself on the back<\/p>\n<p>[12:48] [S] dig?<\/p>\n<p>[12:49] [Lessa] and to put me in the same sentense as TG! Oh my. <\/p>\n<p>[12:49] [Lessa] But yes. Patting myself on the back is good? but much less tiring to have someone do it for me.  <\/p>\n<p>[12:49] [Lessa] yeah, i dig. *grin* <\/p>\n<p><b>[12:52][S] well anyway, you&#8217;re just as good as Terry, if your excerpt is a solid representation of the rest of the book<\/b><\/p>\n<p>[12:53] [S] with that in mind, I won&#8217;t slot you for any of my current partner designs<\/p>\n<p>[12:54][S] my reasons for doing so were mostly &#8220;selfish charity&#8221; anyway, but you don&#8217;t need my help<\/p>\n<p>[12:54] [Lessa] I think it is &#8211; a solid representation, I mean.  I keep a really consistant tone, I put her through hell, everything makes sense, and it is a downright good story that makes people feel for her. <\/p>\n<p>[12:54][S] \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>[12:55] [S] see, you don&#8217;t need any pep talks<\/p>\n<p>[12:55] [Lessa] and I even let her have her happy ending. *L* <\/p>\n<p>[12:55][Lessa]cuz I&#8217;m a happy ending kinda gal. <\/p>\n<p>[12:55] [S] well, as long as it&#8217;s better than TG&#8217;s endings<\/p>\n<p>[12:55] [S] that fuckin guy can&#8217;t write a decent ending to save his *grandmother&#8217;s* life<\/p>\n<p>[12:56] [Lessa] *LMAO* he has had a couple sucky ones. <\/p>\n<p>[12:56] [S] like PoC?<\/p>\n<p>[12:56] [Lessa] it was like &#8220;aw shit! it&#8217;s already 800 pages! must end NOW!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>[12:56] [S] <i>[deleted because it&#8217;s a &#8216;book spoilerspoiler&#8217;]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>[12:57] [S] idiot<\/p>\n<p>[12:57] [S] if you do that I will drop a rock on you<\/p>\n<p>[12:58] [S] ok, well, I&#8217;ll stop bugging you then, you know what&#8217;s up<\/p>\n<p><b>[12:59] [S] we&#8217;ll be your cheerleaders when you need one<\/p>\n<p>[12:59] [S] or until you realize that you don&#8217;t need any<\/p>\n<p>[12:59] [S] \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<\/b><br \/>\n[12:59] [Lessa] Your not buggin me *simle* and I appreciate that, a lot. <\/p>\n<p>[12:59] [S] alright, imma jet before this gets all warm and fuzzy<\/p>\n<p>[12:59][S] blech<\/p>\n<p>[01:00] [Lessa] *LMAO* You know. I don&#8217;t do warm and fuzzy either. Honest. <\/p>\n<p>[01:00] [S] you might be a good writer, but you&#8217;re a terrible liar<\/p>\n<p>[01:00] [Lessa] *grabs and hugs and RUNS* thank you. no! don&#8217;t thank you. I already knew I was good. You just proved my points. Yes. *pats self on back* <\/p>\n<p>[01:00] [Lessa] And I know. *grins* I can&#8217;t lie to save my life. it&#8217;s rather a terrible trait. <\/p>\n<p>[01:01] [S] can be useful when dealing with wolfish publishing agents<\/p>\n<p>[01:01] [S] \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>[01:01] [Lessa] *LOL* true. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m&#8230; still rereading it. HAve been for hours.<\/p>\n<p>Someone I don&#8217;t know thinks I&#8217;m as good as one of my favorites.<\/p>\n<p>Holy. Chit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what to say. I don&#8217;t. it&#8217;s a SERIOUS vote of confidence, a TOTAL ego kick, and completely shocking. completely. i joined a writers \/ thinkers \/ artists board the other day. Been having quite a bit o&#8217;fun. 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