Mabon Harvests, Literary and Literal
Sep. 18th, 2005 01:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dr_pretentiousI just replied to the latest email from the agent. Yes, it will be my pleasure to send her the full manuscript of Hands of Beltresa.
(Yeah, the old working title was Crown and Crowd. Same book you've been hearing about for two years. Next week, the working title may be something completely different. Well, I worked on the dissertation for most of five years before I got it to tell me its true name, so I'm not terribly surprised that none of the names I've come up with for the current project satisfy me yet.)
Since I've heard the agent say that she likes reading first drafts from her current clients, I asked her whether she wanted the still somewhat rough version I can send out this month, or a version in which the second half of the ms is as polished as the first half, which I could send by the end of October. Either answer's a good one.
In other news, our Mabon celebration went beautifully tonight. We had to adapt our standard ritual form and harvest holiday customs to a few awkward requirements of the hall we hired (no alcohol except in the chalice, no candles, etc.), and it was Clover Coven's first time hosting an event with so many people in attendance (the last estimate I heard was about 50), but the results Felt Like Mabon, so it must have worked. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jeneralist, will you be posting on your chemistry prowess? Your candle alternative was widely admired.) Everybody looked to be having a good time, and the feast table groaned under the weight of the harvest offerings. Oh, but we are good cooks. No word yet on whether the contributions to the donation jar exceeded the cost of the hall, but we hope to have accumulated enough to donate for hurricane relief.
Enough and enough and enough to share.
(Yeah, the old working title was Crown and Crowd. Same book you've been hearing about for two years. Next week, the working title may be something completely different. Well, I worked on the dissertation for most of five years before I got it to tell me its true name, so I'm not terribly surprised that none of the names I've come up with for the current project satisfy me yet.)
Since I've heard the agent say that she likes reading first drafts from her current clients, I asked her whether she wanted the still somewhat rough version I can send out this month, or a version in which the second half of the ms is as polished as the first half, which I could send by the end of October. Either answer's a good one.
In other news, our Mabon celebration went beautifully tonight. We had to adapt our standard ritual form and harvest holiday customs to a few awkward requirements of the hall we hired (no alcohol except in the chalice, no candles, etc.), and it was Clover Coven's first time hosting an event with so many people in attendance (the last estimate I heard was about 50), but the results Felt Like Mabon, so it must have worked. (
jeneralist, will you be posting on your chemistry prowess? Your candle alternative was widely admired.) Everybody looked to be having a good time, and the feast table groaned under the weight of the harvest offerings. Oh, but we are good cooks. No word yet on whether the contributions to the donation jar exceeded the cost of the hall, but we hope to have accumulated enough to donate for hurricane relief.Enough and enough and enough to share.
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Date: 2005-09-19 09:42 am (UTC)As for the Wheel of Time: I actually think he knows exactly how it's going to end. The problem is that it's just taking him a freakin' long time to get there. For instance, I have heard (not having read the book myself) that the last book was basically on the reaction of every character to a major event that happened at the end of the book before. And the book was like 1000 pages long!!
As for Mabon: No, that's not how I heard of the name. Not being a Wiccan myself (although at one point I was termed "pagan friendly"), I wouldn't have heard of this. I must have read it in some fantasy book somewhere.