I could seriously spend a slant-sunny afternoon trying to decipher the different expressions on the chilled faces of Gertrude, Alice and Basket. Your art is enjoyably expressive and suggestive.
"I went into it knowing nothing, and I think this has become my preferred way to see films." With you on that one, Simmone. Also my preferred way of traveling. (Maybe even living a lot of the time...) I'd really like to read Deborah Levy's Real Estate. Have you?
Maybe it is the way to live:) - I love Real Estate - some other works miss for me but her 'living autobiography' and the novels August Blue and Swimming Home are keepers! Also I feel like because you are living somewhere (objectively) glamorous you too could be like Deborah Levy. Travel, food, books, literary history, relationships, and no regrets - little epiphanies all the way.
I'd be honoured to be like her. Just this morning, I had a publisher praise my novel proposal: "We do like the book - it is very well written and some segments really stand out, notably the internal dialogue. However, there is some crossover with some of the books in our catalogue in terms of its love story and setting, and we would need more differentiation to publish it." That was a real blow!
Nah, not literally. That publishers comments give me hope because it's a good book but publishers simply don't want literary fiction anymore. They favour genre by a long way. The publisher of my last non fiction book isn't even accepting any fiction because he says it doesn't sell. That's why I say nowhere to turn.
I could seriously spend a slant-sunny afternoon trying to decipher the different expressions on the chilled faces of Gertrude, Alice and Basket. Your art is enjoyably expressive and suggestive.
Basket farted.
"I went into it knowing nothing, and I think this has become my preferred way to see films." With you on that one, Simmone. Also my preferred way of traveling. (Maybe even living a lot of the time...) I'd really like to read Deborah Levy's Real Estate. Have you?
Maybe it is the way to live:) - I love Real Estate - some other works miss for me but her 'living autobiography' and the novels August Blue and Swimming Home are keepers! Also I feel like because you are living somewhere (objectively) glamorous you too could be like Deborah Levy. Travel, food, books, literary history, relationships, and no regrets - little epiphanies all the way.
I'd be honoured to be like her. Just this morning, I had a publisher praise my novel proposal: "We do like the book - it is very well written and some segments really stand out, notably the internal dialogue. However, there is some crossover with some of the books in our catalogue in terms of its love story and setting, and we would need more differentiation to publish it." That was a real blow!
Sorry to hear that. This industry is hard - especially when you get close and then it doesn’t happen. Snakes and ladders.
Thanks for your sympathy, Simmone. This particular snake has taken me right back down to the very bottom. Start again? Nowhere else to go really...
Rip it up and start again? (not literally... but ... maybe?) hate the long snake!
Nah, not literally. That publishers comments give me hope because it's a good book but publishers simply don't want literary fiction anymore. They favour genre by a long way. The publisher of my last non fiction book isn't even accepting any fiction because he says it doesn't sell. That's why I say nowhere to turn.