Good News - Bad News
February 16, 2000
6:45 a.m.
Thanks for all the e-mail lately. I guess I hit a nerve there. [grin] Do you want to start with the good or the bad news? I guess I should start with the good news, since the observant of you will already have noticed the change of status on the Ever Prestent Accept-O-Matic. I received a note from Stan Schmidt yesterday. After some three or four rounds of discussion, rewrite, and general tightening, he's accepting "The Taranth Stone" for publication in Analog. As I mentioned earlier, this is the sequel to "Stealing the Sun," and I'm pleased about it. I should thank Lisa Silverthorne for her support on this one. I wrote the first draft while she was here for a plotfest. It was really, really terrible. Worse was the fact that I knew it was really, really terrible. I was distraut afterwards, and ready to just give up on the idea of a sequel. But Lisa dropped me a note or two, and pretty soon I felt good enough to trudge back into the trenches. Pretty much nothing is left of that first draft anymore. This one is the perfect example of writing not fast. Seventeen drafts (that I've kept, anyway), a majority being major tear-ups. Don't tell me I don't know how to waste time. [grin] Anyway--thanks, Lisa (the friend/writer, not the wife/copyeditor!). The bad news? Well, somehow I managed to mangle the files associated with the first three chapters of "Glamour of the God-Touched". Worse, yet, the zip drive back-up was corrupted, too (have to change my back-up procedure, obviously). I had intended to drop them in the mail here Real Soon, but now that will have to be delayed a day or three while I re-key them. This means I also push back the work I've started on "Lords of Existence". I'm doing the Post-it On the Wall thing, and am through the first 60 or so pages. Oh, well. Could have been worse. At least I had hardcopy.  ... danged computers ... Daily Persistence is © Ron Collins |
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