i occasionally post to them, hoping to rouse some discussion, but not much has been happening. i leave them on my list because it's not like they clog up my friends' page or anything. Same here! I really regret that the catholicwriters group in particular is so dead.
once you've had good quality tea, there's just no going back to celestial seasonings, is there? bleh. No, there isn't! Every once in awhile, someone will offer me a cup of celestial seasonings or worse--lipton's! I usually quite politely turn them down, all the while quaking in my boots. I'm afraid I've turned into quite the tea snob.
just how long does something have to sit in a closet rotting before you declare it dead. much as i hold onto a number of very old and very abandoned projects, i still consider most of them to be viable. I think you should hold onto them. There's no telling when inspiration might strike. Someday you might want to use the idea, but in a revised form. If nothing else, you could at least see where you screwed up the first time and try not to make the same mistake.
Then again, this advice is coming from a self-professed packrat!
does anyone else have a horror of the thought of work being published posthumously which should never see the light of day?
All the time! I always picture some future scholar pouring over my unfinished work, making comments along the lines of: "Ah, yes, this unfortunately was one of her weakest works. The plot is terrible, the characters are weak..." (Of course, this fantasy also goes along with the "famous author" daydream: the one where high schoolers are reading my work along with Twain, Dickens, the Brontes, and the like.)
And, of course, I've always been nervous that my descendents will find my diary after I'm dead. I can just hear it now: "Great-Grandma did WHAT???" =)
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I liked your entry today! =)
Date: 2006-02-08 07:23 pm (UTC)Same here! I really regret that the catholicwriters group in particular is so dead.
No, there isn't! Every once in awhile, someone will offer me a cup of celestial seasonings or worse--lipton's! I usually quite politely turn them down, all the while quaking in my boots. I'm afraid I've turned into quite the tea snob.
I think you should hold onto them. There's no telling when inspiration might strike. Someday you might want to use the idea, but in a revised form. If nothing else, you could at least see where you screwed up the first time and try not to make the same mistake.
Then again, this advice is coming from a self-professed packrat!
All the time! I always picture some future scholar pouring over my unfinished work, making comments along the lines of: "Ah, yes, this unfortunately was one of her weakest works. The plot is terrible, the characters are weak..." (Of course, this fantasy also goes along with the "famous author" daydream: the one where high schoolers are reading my work along with Twain, Dickens, the Brontes, and the like.)
And, of course, I've always been nervous that my descendents will find my diary after I'm dead. I can just hear it now: "Great-Grandma did WHAT???" =)