Morale Damage Control
Hey.
Got our latest batch of DVDs from Columbia House today. Watched Harry Potter IV tonight (Special Edition, hot from the presses). Mother, who is a published novelist, has serious envy for J.K. Rowling and her imagination. Me, I'd have been a totally rabid fan of this stuff if it had come some thirty years earlier. And there's a part of me that wishes that my own stories could emerge into spectacular visions that everybody could share.
But I'm not jealous. Yes, there is luck involved that the right person in the right position has to decide whether your story is the one that gets told large. Many is the story consigned to the furnace for not being seen by that right person. But it's also an effort to write the story, and make it clean and sparkly, and then to present it to the powers that be, right and wrong. This effort is a calling...and often an obsession. Sometimes it becomes a madness. Get it right, and you become a household name like Rowling or Clancy or Grisham. Obsess too much and you die like Henry Darger.
Perhaps I'll get lucky and finish Chillin' Out this year. Perhaps I'll get luckier still and get it published with somebody who'll take it and me to the next level.
Okay, Ms. Rowling, your sole has connected with my butt. I'll see what I can do.
FP
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PS: Just downloaded the DIVX Player so I could see video CD-ROMs I hadn't been able to watch since buying the new compy. Saw the first six minutes of Macross Zero episode 1 as a test and I'm impressed. No stutters or skips. Me likey.
Got our latest batch of DVDs from Columbia House today. Watched Harry Potter IV tonight (Special Edition, hot from the presses). Mother, who is a published novelist, has serious envy for J.K. Rowling and her imagination. Me, I'd have been a totally rabid fan of this stuff if it had come some thirty years earlier. And there's a part of me that wishes that my own stories could emerge into spectacular visions that everybody could share.
But I'm not jealous. Yes, there is luck involved that the right person in the right position has to decide whether your story is the one that gets told large. Many is the story consigned to the furnace for not being seen by that right person. But it's also an effort to write the story, and make it clean and sparkly, and then to present it to the powers that be, right and wrong. This effort is a calling...and often an obsession. Sometimes it becomes a madness. Get it right, and you become a household name like Rowling or Clancy or Grisham. Obsess too much and you die like Henry Darger.
Perhaps I'll get lucky and finish Chillin' Out this year. Perhaps I'll get luckier still and get it published with somebody who'll take it and me to the next level.
Okay, Ms. Rowling, your sole has connected with my butt. I'll see what I can do.
FP
* * *
PS: Just downloaded the DIVX Player so I could see video CD-ROMs I hadn't been able to watch since buying the new compy. Saw the first six minutes of Macross Zero episode 1 as a test and I'm impressed. No stutters or skips. Me likey.