Comments on: When boredom means success https://glendalarke.com/2008/04/when-boredom-means-success/ Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:34:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Joanna https://glendalarke.com/2008/04/when-boredom-means-success/#comment-22595 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:27:00 +0000 #comment-22595 Because I have faith in the eventual publication of the book, I am prepared to wait at least a year… maybe six months, three… No, no, I CAN wait *grin*.

]]> By: Glenda Larke https://glendalarke.com/2008/04/when-boredom-means-success/#comment-22594 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:06:00 +0000 #comment-22594 It is one of the misconceptions we all have when we start out, Jo: Wow! Book accepted! Plain sailing now…

Alas, for me it hasn’t worked that way at all. What counts is big sales, and the fact that you have been published before is only a minor recommendation by contrast.

Still, I know that I write good, entertaining books, and that the people who do buy them seem to love them, so I am confident that sooner or later things will look up.

]]> By: Jo https://glendalarke.com/2008/04/when-boredom-means-success/#comment-22593 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:13:00 +0000 #comment-22593 Having successfully published some of your books, you wouldn’t think there would be a problem with any of the rest. Anyway, fingers crossed for you.

Some of us get to the size of a cow without being pregnant LOL

]]> By: Glenda Larke https://glendalarke.com/2008/04/when-boredom-means-success/#comment-22592 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:04:00 +0000 #comment-22592 I reckon that’s a pretty good analogy actually, Hrugaar. Roll on the birth.

(Oh, and being 9 months pregnant is more like feeling the size of a cow than being chased by one… )

]]> By: hrugaar https://glendalarke.com/2008/04/when-boredom-means-success/#comment-22591 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:58:00 +0000 #comment-22591 This isn’t meant to be a fatuous question, but how does it compare to the final stages of pregnancy? (completing the revised draft, I mean, not being chased by a cow!) Does it get to the point where you feel ‘this baby and I are as ready as we’re ever going to be, I just want to get the business of childbirth over and done with now’?

]]> By: Glenda Larke https://glendalarke.com/2008/04/when-boredom-means-success/#comment-22590 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:24:00 +0000 #comment-22590 Joanna, tell you what, if I can’t get this published I will print and bind you a copy anyway!

Peter, yep, cows are scary. Although the replacement we had for Corrie was a lovely thing called Nellie, who wouldn’t have hurt a fly. She had the most gorgeous eyelashes, I remember. My dad was terribly upset when she died in calfbirth – and it wasn’t a heifer, what’s more.

Satima, pigs are probably even worse than cows. And they’re not vegetarians, either…

Karen, there ain’t no peace when you haven’t sold it in advance, just nail-biting anxiety. Sigh.

]]> By: Joanna https://glendalarke.com/2008/04/when-boredom-means-success/#comment-22589 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:23:00 +0000 #comment-22589 Speaking from the purely selfish position of the winner of your word count competition last year, this news is very welcome. Come on all you publishers, if you haven’t worked out yet that this woman can write books that sell, there’s something *really* wrong!!! I want my book (imagine this last said in an extremely annoying, whiney voice…does anyone have a 4 year old daughter?? That’s how it should sound *heh*).

]]> By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2008/04/when-boredom-means-success/#comment-22588 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:45:00 +0000 #comment-22588 Wootie toot toot on the finishing the final pre-edit version of the ms. That is fantastic, and so satisfying. This is one I am so looking forward to seeing in print.

For myself, I know the story’s cooked when it leaves me alone. When it’s not cooked, it’s nudging away at the back of my mind, and I keep thinking up things to do with it. When it’s done, it leaves me alone and I experience this odd feeling of peace.

]]> By: Satima Flavell https://glendalarke.com/2008/04/when-boredom-means-success/#comment-22587 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:12:00 +0000 #comment-22587 Congrats on finishing the ms, Glenda. I hope your agent finds just the right place for it, very soon.

Peter, your experience reminds me of a time when my husband and children and I were attempting to separate piglets from their mother for weaning. The sow, lured away by food, was shut in a separate pen while my kids scrambled for the squealing piglets and stuffed them into sacks. Mother pig was understandably anxious and she forced a sturdy piece of pig fence upwards with her snout to get back to her babies. My own babies moved very quick-smartly, I can tell you! One did your trick of vaulting a fence twice his height while another wound up on the roof of the pigsty with the sow snarling up at him as she defended her last piglet.

We never did get that little gilt off its mother. She wound up a breeder by default.

]]> By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2008/04/when-boredom-means-success/#comment-22586 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:52:00 +0000 #comment-22586 Fingers crossed that your MS is published. Anyone I can lobby?

Your memory of a near fatal encounter with Corrie sent a shiver down my spine as I had a similar incident when I was about 8yo. I was helping my father at dairy farm by mustering the cows into the milking shed. I had accidentally separated a cow from its calf and it charged me. I bolted to the nearest fence which happened to be twice as tall as me and somehow vaulted it in a single bound with the cow inches away.
It’s amazing what fear and adrenaline can do to your athletic ability.

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