The plan, as it stood...

[readingredhead]

So last night my plan was to stay up really late so that I would actually sleep in in the morning and spend less time waiting around to leave.

That worked really well.

So I was watching a movie (Guys and Dolls, to be precise), which I started at around 9:00.  I watched most of it, but by then my eyes were having trouble staying open, so I decided that the best thing for me to do was go to sleep. 

I looked at my watch.  10:30 only.  But I was tired, and I figured that I'd sleep in anyways -- no one will deny the fact that I need it.

Imagine my surprise when I woke up this morning at 6:15.

Bleh.

But, on the bright side, a published writer wants to hear about the kinds of short stories I like to write.  So I am going to be writing like heck for the next week, before I respond to her.

And people are probably staring at the monitor right now, thinking "WHAT?"

Well, last summer Katherine got me into these amazing sci-fi books that she'd started reading.  As I said, they were amazing, and she and I both loved the writing to pieces.  So we decided that we wanted to learn more about the writer.  When we visited her website, we found her e-mail address listed.  This is probably how our conversation went:

Me: Oh my gosh!

Katherine: Oh my gosh!

Me: Should we write to her?

Kat: What would we say?

Me: We'll just sound like stupid fangirls, whatever we write.

Kat: But we sort of are fangirls.

Me: (silence)

Kat: So we're writing the letter?

Me: Of course.

We never expected a response, so when we got one the next day, we were pretty much jumping for joy.  I think my head bumped the ceiling.  Not only had she written back, but she'd asked us if we were interested in her sending us signed bookmarks.  Of course, we said yes.

Since then I've been keeping up intermittent correspondence with her, writing whenever I finish another of her books.  She also edits short story anthologies for DAW publishing.

So I finished her most recent book, Migration, on Thursday, and I had to write to her.  I also said that I really enjoyed the short story collections she'd edited, and that they'd inspired me to write some stuff of my own.  I joked that if she ever needed some more stories for an anthology, she only had to ask.

I got a reply yesterday.  A reply in which she told me she was on vacation, but to e-mail her in a week about the kinds of stories I like to write.

<insert fangirl squee here>

So as I said, I'm going to be writing...

Comments

[broken-daylight.livejournal.com]

YAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!!!!!! *applauds*

[readingredhead.livejournal.com]

thanks muches for the applause. Hope the bonfire went well -- sorry I couldn't make it. This is a little late, but have fun in Mexico! (Mom and dad are just about to bring our van over to PCOM.)