Comments | greygirlbeast: "I wonder what you've got conspired. I'm sure it dons a consolation prize."

greygirlbeast

"I wonder what you've got conspired. I'm sure it dons a consolation prize."

May 22, 2010 13:33

Today is International Biodiversity Day. This year, the theme is "Biodiversity, Development and Poverty Alleviation." Good luck, I say. Good luck. Here we stand, in the latter days of the Holocene Extinction Event, at the dawn of the Anthropocene. It's hard to hold out much hope for the preservation of biodiversity. We're losing too many species ( Read more... )

interviews, editing, extinction, walking, world biodiversity day, rhode island, lovecraft

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chris_walsh May 23 2010, 00:00:25 UTC

You could edit in blue. Or green! *imagines the green line edits as plants, getting footholds and growing in the terraces of your words*

It's good to see you more and more comfortable with Providence and the Northeast. I read your blog your entire previous length of time in Atlanta, and I didn't sense comfort with the place. (Plus there's no threat of pink houses populated by Paris Hilton in Providence!)

Rewrites: Another sign you're not standing still as an artist. It can be an annoying tendency -- It's never 'right' enough! Argh! -- but I hope it makes you feel better when you manage to rewrite something in a more elegant way. There needs to be some satisfaction from that.

Ever tempted to significantly or completely change the incidents of an older story? New endings and such?

greygirlbeast May 23 2010, 02:38:24 UTC

It's good to see you more and more comfortable with Providence and the Northeast. I read your blog your entire previous length of time in Atlanta, and I didn't sense comfort with the place.

It's good to be somewhere I feel comfortable. Though, as much as it hated me, I do find myself homesick for the South, from time to time. Then again, I am an admitted masochist.

There needs to be some satisfaction from that.

Agreed.

Ever tempted to significantly or completely change the incidents of an older story? New endings and such?

I has occurred to me. So far, I've resisted.

chris_walsh May 23 2010, 06:11:09 UTC

as much as it hated me, I do find myself homesick for the South, from time to time. Then again, I am an admitted masochist.

The South got you writing and got you singing. Putting yourself out there in more than one way, Not Being Fucking Quiet, so it had some positive impact on your life. And almost any place you'd been for 20-30 years is going to have some positive associations. (The one place I've been that I honestly say "I don't miss it" is my junior high school in Northern Virginia. I was only there two years, but even that had positive connotations: it was there that I really got into article writing and Monty Python, for two examples. So there's still something cool that came for me out of that experience, as miserable as it was.)

Ever tempted to significantly or completely change the incidents of an older story? New endings and such?

It has occurred to me. So far, I've resisted.Ask Harlan Ellison if he'd hand off any of his need-to-be-rewritten old-old stories and see what you'd do with them if you rewrote them. Like that ( ... )

chris_walsh May 23 2010, 06:13:32 UTC

P.S. Is it OK if I call him by his first name if I've only met him once? (Though I'm acquainted with acquaintances of his, not just you and docbrite. It sometimes surprises me, the few degrees of separation between me and him. Separated by degrees of talent and impact, though, but I accept that and go on.)

mb2u May 23 2010, 00:53:23 UTC

Just so you know, Hubero disapproves.

With the proper offering, I'm sure Hubero would be willing to approve...

jomacmouse May 23 2010, 04:06:26 UTC

Hubero's eyes go very splendidly with the paintwork in the photo. Or so it strikes me on looking at that particular one.

revisions, new visions, bleedingtom May 23 2010, 16:59:28 UTC

What does the cover look like for the touched up Silk? I have the old version, which still reminds me of what a story is supposed to do to a human being. Its that 1st high I've been chasing through the years. I still remember not noticing my legs had fallen asleep as I trampled through those pages.

Re: revisions, new visions, greygirlbeast May 23 2010, 17:18:33 UTC

What does the cover look like for the touched up Silk?

This is the revised fourth edition, the one I was referring to yesterday, the heavily revised one.

dadavoodoo May 25 2010, 18:14:42 UTC

I love your photos of RI. I really like the one of the Fleur de Lys Studio. It's funny because They were talking about this place on the H.P. Lovecraft literary podcast.