Monday, March 06, 2006
It is Finished!
Whew!
Long deep breath, sigh of relief...it's done! Now I wanna cry.
I went to my mother's and wrote all weekend, from the time I got there until 2 a.m. Sunday morning. I only stopped to eat and run around Mena for about two hours. Oh, and I did sleep some. I even took the laptop from the den to my old bedroom so I could write the last words in the exact same place I wrote the first ones. I would've been sitting in the same spot on the floor but I would've had to move the furniture.
I cried like a baby during the last chapter, and the epilogue. Not because it's that sad, it's just very emotional, and I've been trying to get to this point for almost twenty-one years. It's also sad because those days in music are gone, and I wish I could go back there. Everyone criticizes it so much now, but we had a really good time then. It was just cool...
Now the hard part-sending out query letters. I sent three via e-mail this morning. Then noticed they had a typo. Well, that's just great. I sent one to Coral Press, which is a regular publisher, and two to some agents. I thought I might as well dive in. I don't expect this book to be a national best-seller or see it as a in-depth attempt to look at hair metal and culture, I just think it's a pretty good story with cool characters and someone from my generation might enjoy reading it. It's just dirty, schmaltzy commercial fiction.
I already have a lot in mind for the sequel! Erg....
I'll miss Jon for a while. He's my dream man-my perfect male alter ego. Now it's time to take Paul Hackman's picture off my desktop. That's gonna be a tough one.
I'll just send out my queries, and hope for the best. In the meantime, my band's working on its original stuff, and our gigs kick back off this weekend in Hot Springs. Yippee!!
Long deep breath, sigh of relief...it's done! Now I wanna cry.
I went to my mother's and wrote all weekend, from the time I got there until 2 a.m. Sunday morning. I only stopped to eat and run around Mena for about two hours. Oh, and I did sleep some. I even took the laptop from the den to my old bedroom so I could write the last words in the exact same place I wrote the first ones. I would've been sitting in the same spot on the floor but I would've had to move the furniture.
I cried like a baby during the last chapter, and the epilogue. Not because it's that sad, it's just very emotional, and I've been trying to get to this point for almost twenty-one years. It's also sad because those days in music are gone, and I wish I could go back there. Everyone criticizes it so much now, but we had a really good time then. It was just cool...
Now the hard part-sending out query letters. I sent three via e-mail this morning. Then noticed they had a typo. Well, that's just great. I sent one to Coral Press, which is a regular publisher, and two to some agents. I thought I might as well dive in. I don't expect this book to be a national best-seller or see it as a in-depth attempt to look at hair metal and culture, I just think it's a pretty good story with cool characters and someone from my generation might enjoy reading it. It's just dirty, schmaltzy commercial fiction.
I already have a lot in mind for the sequel! Erg....
I'll miss Jon for a while. He's my dream man-my perfect male alter ego. Now it's time to take Paul Hackman's picture off my desktop. That's gonna be a tough one.
I'll just send out my queries, and hope for the best. In the meantime, my band's working on its original stuff, and our gigs kick back off this weekend in Hot Springs. Yippee!!
// posted by LJo @ 11:17 AM 
