We Will Sell No Wine Before Its Time

I'm trying this crazy new approach to being sick. I'm staying home today. I can't miss my night class for a variety of accelerated and snow day reasons, but I've decided to keep rinsing and repeating during the day. I feel better, except for the ears, which are coming along, and I plan to hit the road around 2 pm in order to get organized.

I'm communing with a lot of elder gods, which could explain the problems from before. No one is going to feel good with Cthullu in their head. After I finish with the internetting, I've got more communing ahead.

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I finished Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver. There are some beautiful bits in it, very descriptive and wonderful. I can see why it's selling so very well. Teenage girls will swoon. There's gratifying role reversal in the relationship. All that said, it's not my book and I know it. I find myself more interested in Beck and his back story, because that's the way my brain is wired. However, Maggie knows her audience, and I believe she delivers for them quite nicely. I had a good time as well, although I'll be much more likely to re-read Ballad, which speaks to my writerly soul. Loudly.

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I want to link to a post I really liked yesterday about living: Chia Evers on Midlife Crisis.

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My current mindset is back to getting my writer shoulder to the grindstone. I have to admit, so much disease and bad weather makes it hard to be there. I need to focus on the work. I've had a lot of shiny bubbles, and they're either floating out of my reach or they've popped, so I'm just back to writing the best work I can, and sending it out when it's ready.

This brings me to something that's been coming to mind during many commutes in the snow. It's about writing, and I think it's a mistake beginning writers make. I don't know how we can avoid it, but we do it.

Don't send out a book to an agent unless it's had time to age. This idea is almost an entire reversal on my philosophies about writing in 2007.

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