Just began my next book (nonfiction)

[rachelmanija]

Sucks. Sucks. Suckity suck suck suck. However, this is probably normal.

I almost began with the midget clown story, then decided that I should probably not open two books in a row with midget stories. Also, although it was sort of the inciting incident, in itself it doesn't have all that much relevance to the book as a whole. Wheras the burning car story (for those of you familiar with my life, this was the first burning car when I was nineteen) has less immediate relevance, but encapsulates a lot of the themes of the rest of the book, and is also more dramatic. So burning car it is. For now.

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[mcdolemite.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I should include the midget French-Canadian clown woman who stalked me when I was tripping on the Vicodin I'd mistakenly taken instead of Prevacid (as I discovered when Oz -- my late iguana, not Set Green -- bit off the ball of my thumb, Vicodin makes me paranoid. And really, the midget stories are so different that I don't think you'd be stuck in a rut of midget openings (hmmm, that didn't sound right) if you decided to use it.

I want, ofcourseofcourseofcourse, to read this proposed second book, as I would want to read anything you wrote, even a sharecropped Baen novel that said JERRY POURNELLE's C.O.C.K. FORCE in big chrome letters and your name in very small ones (not that you're likely to be swapping book contract with John Ringo!). And you are, ofcourseofcourseofcourse, a TERRIFIC non-fiction writer who's lived a fascinating life, so of course you should go with that.

BUTbutbut, I do hope this means that INDEPENDENCE hasn't been consigned to a trunk or anything like that.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

The story I posted my plaintive tracking inquiry about basically is C.O.C.K Force, as you can see from my icon.

Independence has been consigned to the "rewrite before submitting" stack, which is not exactly a trunk as it and Project Blue Rose (see above) are the only things in that stack. The latter gets precedence because it's quite short and won't take me too long to finish, and also has a printing deadline.

[larryhammer]

Heck, I'd read a Rachel-written Jerry Pournelle's C.O.C.K. Force.

---L.