The Lure of Free, and the Fickle, Heartless Muse
Ah, my sweet sweet Muse, why do you torment me? What I need is adult UF. What you gave me yesterday was Heathers-esque YA. I’m not precisely complaining, it’s just…we need to work together here, right? Not in different directions. Look, I have some bonbons here. Pretty bonbons all wrapped up in shiny foil. You like bonbons, right? That’s a good girl.
Now, let’s work on these short stories, what do you say?
It won’t work. She’ll take the bribe and do what she wants anyway. Fickle, heartless wench.
In other news, a long Memorial Day weekend was full of cleaning. The garage is organized, our Free pile down at the end of the driveway disposed of mattresses and various other things. I am constantly amazed at the lure of “free.” There is no word more likely to get someone’s attention. I suspect there is some cultural or even evolutionary reason for it.
The house is cleaned out, stuff neatly bagged and boxed. The books are sorted. The UnSullen not only fetched, carried, organized, swept, and otherwise cleaned, but he also built a patio for us and took the kids to the track to fly paper airplanes. Our across-the-street neighbor put several items in with his garage sale, thank goodness. All in all, everyone worked hard this past weekend, and I was able to breathe a sigh of relief yesterday. The kind of relief one feels after running a marathon and reaching the end without collapsing.
Now if I can just get this damn story to coalesce. I like the Heathers-esque YA with Stepford vampires, but it’s not exactly what the anthology people want.
Yeah, yeah, I know. My life is so hard.
It’s time to bring out the big guns. When in doubt and when the Muse is refusing to percolate, there is only one solution.
Fairy tales.
I’m gonna get out my Grimm’s and my Briggs. See you around, kiddos.
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May 26th, 2009 at 11:03 am
Jack Zipes, Wendy Doniger, Campbell.. its all good stuff.. or as we used to say in the Navy, an After Action Report is the same thing as a Fairy Tale, a bit of truth strung together with some filler.
Glad things are coming together..
May 26th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
I won an arc of strange angels today from the compulsive reader. I had already bought the book and it was great! I absolutley loved it. I am giving my paid copy to my brother and keeping the arc. It is now my most prized possesion. Not trying to feed your ego to much but you are the awesomest author ever. Keep up the good work
May 27th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
And here I thought you were going to say in regard to bring out the big guns, “ring out the tekillya”. *s* (I firmly believe that my spelling of tequila is truth in advertising.)
Another good way to get rid of stuff is to check out your local Freecycle group. I managed to get rid of \\\ ahem I mean give away an old patio set in about 10 seconds flat with backups in case the first person who claimed it didn’t show up! I’ve also got rid of a box of back issues of old cooking magazines that I couldn’t bring myself to just throw away, etc. It’s amazing.
Check it out: http://www.freecycle.org/