"You can't watch your own image, and also look yourself in the eye. "

[greygirlbeast]

This really needs to be short. Too much to do today, so that I can get back to The Drowning Girl: A Memoir, and begin Chapter Four tomorrow.

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Yesterday was, indeed, a day off, and we saw the Coen Bros. remake of True Grit (or perhaps we should say their adaptation, since both films have been based on Charles Portis' 1968 novel). And I was

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[ellen_datlow]

I hope that one of those things is getting back to me about the galleys of "The Collier Venus" :-)

[greygirlbeast]

I hope that one of those things is getting back to me about the galleys of "The Collier Venus" :-)

Oh shit. I forgot

I mean...why yes! It is.

[ellen_datlow]

:-)
I hope you've tried to open the file and succeeded. A couple of people can't seem to open them without problems.

[greygirlbeast]

I hope you've tried to open the file and succeeded. A couple of people can't seem to open them without problems.

Um, yeah. Check your email.

Doing it "right"

[fwcleve]

>> "Here are the hundreds of stories, all these novels, and have I done it right even once?"

I don't think there is any "right". But there is "outstanding", which you have done repeatedly.

--Fred Cleveland (cleve)

[kendare_blake]

I know that doubt is natural and very writerly and everything but WHAAAT? You always do it right. If there is a right to be done, that's what you do. I have yet to read anything of yours that doesn't provoke emotion and thought, and that doesn't make me admire the way you use words. I read a lot, and different stuff, but yours is one of the few careers I follow. So your books might be few amongst millions but they're the ones I would miss.

Gush, gush, gush, all over your journal. Sorry about that. But seriously. You're kickass.