Yay!!! Yippee!!! and Whoo-Hoo!!!
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capri0mniThe Third Annual Hoedown Has Landed!
:::Pumps fist in air:::
Yes!!!
Graham and I worked together over the weekend and finally figured out how to present the solution to the Fifth Doctor/Albert & Amanda Problem. He just posted it a little while ago, and so I was finally able to present Eloise's most happy ending ever... after sitting on it for one day shy of a month.
This may seem like a little thing, to most normal human beings out there. But I have this thing about stories: Once I know what's at stake, and the general nature of the conflict,
I. Can. Not. Stand. To. Leave. A. Story. Unfinished.
(All the stories that I've abandoned in an unfinished state have never gotten to the "knowing what's at stake" stage)
Even if I stumble across an embarrassingly-painful-to-watch T.V. movie, I'll flip the channel to watch something else, but will always try to get back to it in the last 15 minutes or so to see how it ends... even if the plot is so predictable that I could tell you to the last detail exactly how it will end a quarter of the way into it.
I just need to see the ending for myself.
So you can imagine how itchy this whole dangling plot line was making me feel... and in the back of my mind, the fear that it would take so long that the thread would die from inactivity, and no one would remember anything of the story, and, and...
It was like having chicken pox, and trying not to scratch.
But that's all over, now...
My brain is now completely free to think about other things...
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Oh, and in other news, yesterday, I got a personal message from someone who wants to publish "Raise All Your Voices" in the next issue of The San Fransisco Folk Music Club newsletter.
The message said, in part:
The audience receiving this will be the SF folkies, I think there's about 500 on the newsletter mailing list, and it does go up online ...
Not bad for someone who hasn't written more than a dozen songs in her whole lifetime, huh?
Now, onto other projects, that have been waiting for my full attention since August... (wish me luck!)
:::Pumps fist in air:::
Yes!!!
Graham and I worked together over the weekend and finally figured out how to present the solution to the Fifth Doctor/Albert & Amanda Problem. He just posted it a little while ago, and so I was finally able to present Eloise's most happy ending ever... after sitting on it for one day shy of a month.
This may seem like a little thing, to most normal human beings out there. But I have this thing about stories: Once I know what's at stake, and the general nature of the conflict,
I. Can. Not. Stand. To. Leave. A. Story. Unfinished.
(All the stories that I've abandoned in an unfinished state have never gotten to the "knowing what's at stake" stage)
Even if I stumble across an embarrassingly-painful-to-watch T.V. movie, I'll flip the channel to watch something else, but will always try to get back to it in the last 15 minutes or so to see how it ends... even if the plot is so predictable that I could tell you to the last detail exactly how it will end a quarter of the way into it.
I just need to see the ending for myself.
So you can imagine how itchy this whole dangling plot line was making me feel... and in the back of my mind, the fear that it would take so long that the thread would die from inactivity, and no one would remember anything of the story, and, and...
It was like having chicken pox, and trying not to scratch.
But that's all over, now...
My brain is now completely free to think about other things...
---
Oh, and in other news, yesterday, I got a personal message from someone who wants to publish "Raise All Your Voices" in the next issue of The San Fransisco Folk Music Club newsletter.
The message said, in part:
The audience receiving this will be the SF folkies, I think there's about 500 on the newsletter mailing list, and it does go up online ...
Not bad for someone who hasn't written more than a dozen songs in her whole lifetime, huh?
Now, onto other projects, that have been waiting for my full attention since August... (wish me luck!)
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Date: 2002-11-17 04:15 pm (UTC)My sentiments exactly!
Date: 2002-11-17 04:32 pm (UTC)Yup! On all of it.
And I really hope you like the Ending, Gordon, 'cause it (and all my parts, really) was sort of of my b-day present for you...
For I guy who didn't really want to celebrate his birthday at all, this has to have been the longest birthday celebration in history... (My mother celebrated her 50th for a year, but she'd been really looking forward to it).
Anyway, after Imran has it up on the Web, I want you to bookmark the page that has all the scenes where you're opening your prezzies... and whenever life starts throwing curveballs, rotten tomatos or whatever else, at you, I want you to go back and remind yourself how much people want to give you things that would make you happy.
Deal?