Nothing to get hung about...

[jack_babalon]

A photo of Oakland Cemetery I took was selected for an interactive map site called Schmap. I'm under Atlanta, then Parks & Gardens, then Oakland Cemetery... you'll have to scroll through a few entries but you'll find it eventually...

...or just click the pic of the thing.



In other news the second draft is complete. Finished it up around Thursday night.

I don't know why but I don't feel any of the rush, the spin-dizzy sense of satisfaction (as if I had stepped off a three hour roller coaster into an all-night open bar at a local strip club) that I got from finishing the first draft. Maybe it's like any other high and it's never as sweet as your first time. However I can't shake this sense that I may have second guessed myself too much. Maybe I cut more than just the fat of it out? Maybe I over-seasoned the meat of the verse a bit much... but to be honest this is the first time (outside of my 'theatre years') that I've ever went back over something I wrote so maybe that's normal?

I liked it better when I just got the idea down and out of my head so I could move on to the next one.

But the real question is 'now what?'

Well I've been searching for some kind of literary Non-Disclosure-Agreement before I start passing it around to my friends. This naturally has offended some and sounded sensible to others. I'll see what the feedback says but I'm itching to get this thing into a publishers hand ASAP. There is a school of thought out there that say's me trying to do that sans an Agent is tantamount to literary suicide. There are others who say fuck that and just put in the hands of a publisher directly. Hell I've heard some folks recommend I just self-publish the thing.

We'll see.

Meanwhile I'll be away from the Witch House for a few days and out of the 404 in general. I feel the need to disappear for a few days.

Comments

[girlsonfilm.livejournal.com]

Nice shot. I love the juxtaposition of the old and new.

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

Thank you, that was the intended effect.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

With railroad as mediator! <3 <3 <3, very clever.

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

Thanks, glad you dug it.

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

Incidentally next time you and yours are in town for D*C maybe we can do an impromptu tour of lesser known Atlanta?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

That would be fabulous. We're coming in a bit earlier for D*C this year, in the hopes of actually doing something in the city other than going to the convention. We should totally get together and wander about.

[catwalk.livejournal.com]

eee! congrats!

there's a lovely geometry to your photo.
i got a frank lloyd wright feel looking at it...

and i have a feeling an agent is not a bad idea
in this day and age.
good luck with drafting and guessing and seasoning and such. :-)

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

Thanks M.

I lucked out with the geometry feel to it, having stumbled upon it by accident (a very happy accident though!)

Agent seems to be the consensus. Feels wierd though needing to submit something to someone so they can submit it for you.

I'll take all the luck anyone's offering, so thank you again!

[catwalk.livejournal.com]

well, crud. i just realized that you're going out of town,
and i'll be in atl tomorrow for a biz lunch.

[daucus-carota.livejournal.com]

I scanned through all of the photos while I was looking. Yours is by far the most artistic... yes, you're my Friend, but, no, I am NOT biased. the composition alone is by far the most intriguing, but you have the light and "density", the depth, the angles, etc. right too.

I'm not offended, just very very very impatient! I wanna READ!!!

I've been thinking a drive out of 404/770/678 for a bit is a good idea... alone with my thoughts and my sleeping bag... me and the stars! (and probably an ocean!)

Enjoy and be safe. I am sure I will have reentered the land of the living by the time you get back to town. Let me know when you are.

Love&xxx

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

Much obliged there.

Yeah a little R&R will be nice. Though I'll miss bike riding in the city. Still I'll have 'net access so there's that.

I'll be back next Monday, so give me a holler if you're free then.