overheard today
Apr. 9th, 2015 11:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valarltdGabriel: "I feel like Neil Gaiman's agent*, you know."
Me: "I know. I'm sorry you're having to talk me in again. In fact, don't talk me in. I'm out on the ledge. It's okay. I like it here. They know me here. The pigeons
are my friends."
Gabriel: "Long as you come back in."
Me: "I will in a few days. For now, I need to be on the ledge."
#crisis of writerly confidence.
* it is said that usually about 2/3 of the way through a manuscript Neil Gaiman calls his agent. He moans that it can't be done. nobody should ever let him near a typewriter again, and he's quitting to go do something better suited to his talents, such as garbage collector or crash-test dummy. His agent listens and nods and smiles and says, "Ah, we're at THAT spot again, are we?"
If you need to be on the ledge, be on the ledge.
Just watch the squirrels. Little boogers bite.
And gratuitous encouragement from the father of my youngest. (Hermes gets me parking. Loki gets me pregnant.)
Me: "I know. I'm sorry you're having to talk me in again. In fact, don't talk me in. I'm out on the ledge. It's okay. I like it here. They know me here. The pigeons
are my friends."
Gabriel: "Long as you come back in."
Me: "I will in a few days. For now, I need to be on the ledge."
#crisis of writerly confidence.
* it is said that usually about 2/3 of the way through a manuscript Neil Gaiman calls his agent. He moans that it can't be done. nobody should ever let him near a typewriter again, and he's quitting to go do something better suited to his talents, such as garbage collector or crash-test dummy. His agent listens and nods and smiles and says, "Ah, we're at THAT spot again, are we?"
If you need to be on the ledge, be on the ledge.
Just watch the squirrels. Little boogers bite.
And gratuitous encouragement from the father of my youngest. (Hermes gets me parking. Loki gets me pregnant.)
