"Mary, carry your shame."

[greygirlbeast]

This will be short. It's already 12:28 p.m., and I've lost more days than I care to count. I've damn near lost an entire year. The day is bright and clear, and my curtains are all drawn. It's 59˚F. In Minsk, that's summertime.

I have three stories I need to be writing, a novella and two short stories. A very short novella and two short stories. No

Comments

[ext_3285138]

Proposals do suck, at least with comic books they do. Everybody wants "high concept" and a proposal that's tightly wound. The business mentality of comic books sucks the art right out of it. In the 80s and 90s companies actually wanted an exploration, an evolution, of a story idea. Now it's about marketability and movie potential, blah blah. Whatever.

Hopefully you have enough pull that you can submit the proposal, have it accepted, and then ditch it for what the story needs to be.

[sovay]

I will do whatever I can whenever the timing works for you. Just let me know. Here it's warm and sunny, which feels very strange for eve-of-Halloween.

[mickalbrightjr]

I like your Lovecraft tales. Fuck the publishers dammit. If only they weren't ... necessary. I love your time-shifting narratives. And you are uunique as a stylist. No one else except Ligotti builds a world in a story like you do. And for the longest time, I've been wondering about Mina...what has happened after she heard the padding of feet outside the window. Is she old now? Is she tormented? And, I have often thought about the Queen of Decay. She scratches at me from Ammonite...Winter is a bitch, she says.
Your work offers me solace, Caitlín. I read it in the fall and winter evenings. I have for some years now. I would bet others do as well. There is most likely a thinner slice of solace for you, its creator. As in all art, your struggles become our light. It is a cold cold irony. ♡

Lovecraft

[ext_3273398]

Lovecraft use to get his work returned with notes on changes the editor wanted. He would freak, until he was told that specific editor(All editors.) didn't remember shit. after that he would just hold onto his work, and return it like he had made the changes. So what if you finished work doesn't match your outline? I doubt he would even remember.

Re: Lovecraft

[greygirlbeast]

I once did nothing but resubmit a manuscript in a different font (this was when I was writing for DC Comics). And it worked.

And no, it does not at all matter if the outline doesn't match the novel. That's not the issue. The issue is, among other things, my wasting days to write the thing.

[ext_3365076]

Not particularly related to the comment thread, but...This is just to say thank you, thank you for writing the Drowning Girl. I discovered the audiobook version on Audible and loved it but pretty quickly realized I wanted to *see* the words, so I ended up sort of doing both. It was the first of your work I'd encountered, and one of the very best things I've ever, ever read. Literary and beautiful and frightening and compelling. The kind of book you read slowly so you absorb every single word. I loved it. Thank you.