Writer stuff. Life stuff.

[panik]

All very boring - no need to comment.

I just spent all day (literally all day, since quite early this morning) working on another agency submission. Having read that, in some writer's opinions, it's easier to get published than get an agent, I think, if it doesn't work out this time, I'm going to start the even-more-soul-destroying-than-submitting-work-to-agents business of sending stuff to the publisher's slush pile. And self-publish, definitely. I see Stephen Clarke's 'A Year in the Merde' was self-pud'd and got its rep online before he got taken on. It does seem the way to go.

And I'm trying to write a screenplay based on the Great Unpublished Novel; been doing a little reading - It doesn't seem terribly complicated, easier by far, imo, than writing for radio (which is damn hard!). The worst bit is deciding which bits to cut. There's a chapter that takes place at a party at the home of the US 'Ambassador' (the US doesn't have an Ambassador in Cuba, just someone who is one really, but pretends not to be. He is, officially, the Head of the US Interests Section of the Embassy of Switzerland'. I just find 'US Ambassador' more user-friendly, if not strictly accurate) which is one of the best chapters in the book, but it's so clippable... Oh man; it's killing me but it has to go.

As to why I'm writing a screenplay... Well, why not? It passes the time; keeps me out of trouble.

I'm trying to start a new novel, too. I have 2 sketched out. I can't decide which I really want to go with.

Then there's the fic. Two fics, both calling to me...

In other news... We just got back from Mum and Dad's yesterday afternoon - God, it felt good to be home! Then I got a call from my sister this morning to say the doctor saw mum this morning for the swelling that's developed in her right leg and he thinks it's a clot. She's gone off back to the hospital in an ambulance for a scan. If she has to stay in - which she almost certainly will have to, at least for a day or two - we'll have to drive back tonight. ::sighs deeply:: I was just starting to unwind a little; just starting to get some real work done... Oh man. We have half a dozen appointments that'll have to be cancelled, I just took delivery of a fridge full of groceries...

Keeping it all crossed that it's nothing to worry about.

Such is my life on this, the 24th day of September, year of Our Lord 2007.

ETA: Hilary rang an hour ago, Mum's home - she's been in for hours having test after test... Tis not a clot, it is edema which is, of course Not Good, but a to-be-expected occasional complication of heart failure. They've decided there's no immediate cause for alarm and they're not keeping her in (usually they do at the drop of a hat, so I'm taking this as good news), they've adjusted her meds. Hilary says Mum seems fine and there's no need to go rushing over.

Anyway. It means I can keep to my work schedule, which is... good. I guess.

Comments

[fingers.livejournal.com]

Hugs!

Life is certainly complicated for us all at the moment! I wish that it wasn't ...

[arnie1967.livejournal.com]

::hugs Gilly tightly:: I really hope your Mum doesn't have to stay in and that you don't have to drive back. Good vibes heading your way, hon!

[betagoddess.livejournal.com]

Sending all positive thoughts to you and your family!

[chriselora55.livejournal.com]

It's a difficult time. glad your mum is ok and that it wasn't a clot although it's still a worry isn't it.

Look after yourself too. We'll keep sending good vibes and thoughts and wishes back and forth and hopefully they'll multiply and we can all have a good share of them.

*Hugs*

[quietdarkness.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that your mother is OK. Clots are much more dangerous than heart failure. Heart failure can be controlled by drugs. Blood clots, which also can be controlled by medications, are life threatening. If a clot breaks loose and ends up in the lungs or the brain, it's a very serious matter. I sitting here cheering that it was heart failure!

Being new to your journal, I am impressed with your ability to crank out fiction. I can write, but I cannot write fiction. I am in awe of your creativity.

[luicat.livejournal.com]

I'm glad your mum is home and you don't have to rush back.

Good luck with the submission and we always need fic....
:o)

[snycock.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm glad to hear that the stuff with your Mom wasn't too serious...even if working is bleah, you and Mark deserve some down time at home for a while...

[suemc.livejournal.com]

With all this going on, its probably a good thing your not trying to move everyone to a new location. Hope you get some peace before having to go back.
Thinking of you

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Sorry I'm late with this - Mondays and Tuesdays suck me into the black hole of doom... ::mutter mutter::

Hope your mum is loads better, bless her. She must be getting heartily sick of the inside of hospitals, and you must be knackered being perpetually on standby to cope.

Fingers crossed you all get a break.

::hugs you gently, and passes over the booze, just in case::

[slipperieslope.livejournal.com]

Edema is not good but nothing like clots. She needs to keep her feet up when she can - higher than her heart. It sounds simple but it is hard to get around to doing it but it works wonders! I know!