{"id":2857,"date":"2006-09-05T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:42","slug":"tuesday-is-new-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2857","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday is the new Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, after all the dust had settled from my breakneck last second edits, and the trip to the Post Office was over with, and I lay down on my tiny living room floor to just breathe<\/em>…<\/p>\n

…the mail came.<\/p>\n

With another big, fat envelope from Secret Agent Man.<\/p>\n

I rolled over and got up and headed toward the mail, and was body checked by a large Being that pushed me back toward the couch and said, “Tuesday<\/strong>. NOT<\/em> today<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

That, and new jersey sheets on my bed, sounded just too<\/em> sweetly reasonable. I am sizing up said envelope even now, knowing that work awaits. But! Thought I’d point out a few roses I had a chance to stop and smell this past weekend:<\/p>\n

Via Jen Robinson’s<\/a> Book Page, a great article on adult readers of YA books by blogger Daphne<\/a>, and a quick link to the book Escape Adulthood<\/a>, which seems to have been written for those of us who feel guilty for moving into the YA section of our local libraries. (Yes, Librarians, I know part of your job is to protect the kids, and more super power to you, but I promise, I just want a book!<\/i> Stop staring at me!!)<\/p>\n

Trying to explain to others why you’re a writer and how they can become one? Don’t, suggests Laura Zigman<\/a> in this amusing Washington Post Bookworld<\/a> article on the Writing Life.<\/p>\n

Via Oz and Ends<\/a>, is it a story of persistence or of connections? Madeleine L’Engle<\/a> was published through a friend of her mother’s, after many rejections and after giving up entirely on her first novel for children. The fact that she was already a published author with an agent is rarely mentioned. It’s sometimes difficult for writers to attend conferences and hear about these instant success stories when they’ve been schlepping around a novel for ages, trying to get someone interested. It’s hard not to become discouraged — and frankly, jealous as heck — over someone else’s success and connections. The truth is, if it’s merely a matter of luck, it can happen to anyone… all you have to have is an excellent manuscript in hand…<\/p>\n

To that end, the story of the man who was paralyzed for thirty years and wrote a seafaring novel purely based on memory and imagination<\/a> deserves a big huzzah!<\/em> for his persistence. If he can do it…<\/p>\n

Publishers’ Weekly<\/a> reminds us that the new Artemis Fowl goes on sale this week. And the L.A. Times<\/a> carried the obnoxious<\/i> AP story of a Minnesota start-up called Freeload Press, Inc., which carries the full text of many college business courses and offers them to students to download and print for free — provided they don’t mind ADS coming with their TEXTBOOKS. Textbook prices, which have risen at twice the rate of inflation, have always been overpriced, but ads? <\/em>First movie previews, then B.A.R.T. trains and now textbooks. Is nowhere<\/em> immune from commercials!?<\/p>\n

Finally, I am speechless<\/em> about Steve Irwin<\/a>. Someone mentioned it casually to me yesterday, and I never let on that I didn’t already know… so much for my weekend of not connecting to the media. I don’t know why, but I really liked that big lunk, and so did so many little kids I know. No matter how much of a nutcase he may have seemed to have been, he knew his stuff, and I thought he would live forever somehow. Crikey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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