... sixty something day rejection from Interzone ...
February 19, 1999
6:02 a.m.
The first draft (and most of the second) of my latest story is finished. This one took three days from concept to completion, and could have been a one-dayer if I had started on a weekend day and had all day to work on it. I love those. It still needs just a tad bit of work before I'm really through, but it's nice to have everything fall into place every now and again. Of course, I don't have a title.   One of the things I've done in the past few weeks to get myself back onto an emotional track is to return to listening to classical music when I'm writing. Over the past year, I had shifted into using lots of contemporary stuff, most notably Loreena MeKennitt, Sara MacLachlan, and the Cowboy Junkies (why I went Canadian is beyond me to understand, but hey, it worked). Today, though, I'm sitting here with Mozart. Yesterday was a collection. Tomorrow maybe I'll do classical guitar. I like writing to classical music. It carries my brainwaves along without cluttering them with lyrical messages. Have a great day.  Daily Persistence is © Ron Collins |
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"In an essay called "And Zen I Wrote," NPR commentator and children's author Daniel Pinkwater explained how he created a regimen to overcome his trouble getting started. He made himself sit as a table for one hour every day. He didn't have to write, but he was not allowed to do anything else. The mere act of sitting still for an hour was regarded as a successful day's work." Naomi Epel |
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