Revisions
Hmmm... Surprisingly difficult.
I feel like someone who, having scaled Everest, feels they absolutely have to stop for a cup of tea and a long lie-down 100 feet from the summit.
However, am receiving coded messages from blogger. On my most recent sign-ins the letters I have had to type in the box have been
fibil
mtvate
Don't know why it doesn't go the whole hog and say what it really thinks. Something along the lines of Stop faffing around on other people's blogs and get back to your ms you lazy old trout might just do the trick.
I feel like someone who, having scaled Everest, feels they absolutely have to stop for a cup of tea and a long lie-down 100 feet from the summit.
However, am receiving coded messages from blogger. On my most recent sign-ins the letters I have had to type in the box have been
fibil
mtvate
Don't know why it doesn't go the whole hog and say what it really thinks. Something along the lines of Stop faffing around on other people's blogs and get back to your ms you lazy old trout might just do the trick.
posted by Unknown at 10:58 am
10 Comments:
Call me indulgent, but I think you deserve a break after entertaining three little girls all summer. Why not take a much-deserved (and guilt-free) break before diving back into the manuscript!
Besides, TGIF! (How's that for a friendly coded message?!)
Remember, Imogen, blogger also says 'successfully published' - which is what you'll be when you've finished those revisions! Then you'll have plenty of time to climb Everest, stick your flag in its snowy white peak and have a brew. As for me, I reckon I've got more chance of scaling Everest than ever I have of getting published!
I just had to leave a comment to see if Blogger tells me to stop faffing around too.
I got 'rlzbnbii'. Blogger thinks it's being subtle and clever but coincidentally the interpretation for me also ends with 'lazy old trout'... Eva's right in your case though Imogen, you need to give yourself a break.
Eva, is there really such a thing as a 'guilt-free' break?
I agree with Annie about the 'successfully published' bit, but Annie, this applies to you too.
Sue :-)
Buy yourself a bottle of wine and a huge cream cake, indulge yourself and then get on with the revisions. I've a really good feeling about this, y'know. I'm sure publication is just around the corner for you. It'd better be - I've already bought a new pair of shoes for the launch party!
Sharon is right, this is a sure thing. Now that it's Monday and the kids are happily at school, you have no excuses. Get to work, Imogen!
If only.
Youngest ill.
Am fiddling with the odd sentence while playing 3 different roles (the rubbish ones, of course) in a Barbie wedding. (A Barbie lesbian wedding, to be precise).
Somebody up there hates me.
A Barbie lesbian wedding? Now that's a new one on me! My daughters couldn't have had much imagination because as far as I know, they never played that one!
It is going to happen, I. Really and truly. You have to believe it in. Positive vibes and all that. You get back what you send out (no, I don't mean the manuscript in a brown paper envelope!). Think of yourself as a HMB author and a HMB author you will be!
Thank you for the lovely votes of confidence everyone. Inspired by your kind words I rose from my warm bed at 5.45 and cranked up the laptop.
It will get done. (Might still be rubbish, but it will get done.)
I thought 'fibil' was definitely a reference to my lack of stamina, Brown. Feeble. It certainly hit a nerve.
I'm not sure what Annie understood by 'rlzbnbii'. She's actually very clever and is fluent in five languages, so it was probably an in-joke for fellow Swahili-speakers.
Anyway, manuscript completed and sent off about ten minutes ago. Obviously, post-hideous deadline drama the first place I came was the lovely sanctuary. I'm glad I did: your comment about Barbie made me laugh for the first time in about four days!
Way to go, Imogen! Congratulations! Keep us updated, please.
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