You can find me <a href=”http://www.blogtalkradio.com/stations/AuthorsOnAir/LibraryLoveFest “>here</a> tomorrow afternoon (Friday, Nov. 21) at 3 p.m. If I sound giddy, it will be because I have survived the final draft of LIFE SENTENCES.
I won’t bore you with the details — that’s what spouses are for — but I decided in the final draft that certain sections needed to be tightened. We’re talking about 14,000 words that I cut back to under 10,000. If you think cutting something by almost a third is easy, my hat’s off to you.
It would be great to speak to people from the blog and I’m sure all questions are within bounds.
So will your spouse be boring us with the details?
No, because he doesn’t actually hear them.
However, Lizzie has been on the receiving end of some pretty boring e-mails, truth be told.
How clever of them to have telephone access to the broadcast so that working stiffs like me can appear to be working at our desks while listening on the phone. So much easier to look busy that way as opposed to having my computer speakers on! The listen-in number is:
(347) 826-9690
–Marjorie
BTW, I am savoring HKH, but only up to A GOOD FUCK SPOILED so far. (I finally got to read your golf story!) Thanks so much for the short stories. You are skilled at this form of prose, but maybe that comes from years of filing concise and to the point stories for the mullet wrappers.
I was quite taken by the interview – one can listen to the whole thing by clicking the link – and I have a question:
What is the ‘one word’ (that isn’t very nice) for nascent writers who dismiss critical comments about their work with the excuse that “I write for myself”?
(Don’t answer that, if the ‘one word’ will make me go blind!)
Aside from that, had to laugh that your Signicant Other thought your collection of short stories was disturbingly dark and broodingly troubling! Good God! – I’ve only ever watched two or three episodes of The Wire (thanks to Nancy Nall’s unswerving admiration for that series) and couldn’t IMAGINE eagerly tuning into that show, once a week, eagerly awaiting yet another heaping helping of horrible human misery, and the unchecked descent into the abyss of hopelessness…
But on the other hand, I am all the more impelled to actively seek out the short story collection, and see the darkness that troubled the Wire puller, produced by the sweet-voiced author we hear on the radio show!
We’ll report back
“Mastabatory”
Which is a fine thing in private practice, but not in writing.
hahahaha!!
Well, I DO need glasses