Engage rationalization generator, lieutenant!
Monday, April 16th, 2012 04:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizvogelSo last week I popped onto Amazon to add a CD to the wish list. I'd been wanting to relisten to this CD for days, and was quite surprised to discover that I did not in fact own it. (That explains why none of the tracks are in my WinAmp rotation, at least.)
While I was there, I glanced at the list, as one does, and noticed that the last three sets of The Sandbaggers were marked as "only 1 (or 2) left - order soon!" Now, I'm not at all sure that that's not a marketing gimmick on Amazon's part... but I also know that the last time I believed the "more coming soon" addendum, more never came. And there's few things worse for a completist-minded fan than having half a series....
So yeah, I bought 'em.
This is generating a post because I promised myself these discs as my reward for sending a certain number of queries. I have not sent anything like that many queries; indeed, the querying process is still bogged down in trying to create a version I'm actually happy with. Which is where the rationalization generator comes in. So one set is my reward for getting my synopsis done (at least for values of done that involve a beginning, an end, and all the bits in between), and done in time for the local writers conference this past weekend. Another set can be my reward for going to said conference. (One would think that going to a writers conference would be its own reward; one would be wrong. But that's another post.)
I'm not sure what the third set is for. Perhaps it could be a reward for finishing revisions on chapter 9b-soon-to-be-10? Mind you, I'd have to finish 'em first. But that's something I might be able to accomplish by the time the box arrives, if the shipping isn't too expeditious. Other suggestions are welcome in comments.
If only I could do queries like I can do rationalizations, I'd have an agent by now.
I also bought the CD while I was at it. Because, at that point, why not?
While I was there, I glanced at the list, as one does, and noticed that the last three sets of The Sandbaggers were marked as "only 1 (or 2) left - order soon!" Now, I'm not at all sure that that's not a marketing gimmick on Amazon's part... but I also know that the last time I believed the "more coming soon" addendum, more never came. And there's few things worse for a completist-minded fan than having half a series....
So yeah, I bought 'em.
This is generating a post because I promised myself these discs as my reward for sending a certain number of queries. I have not sent anything like that many queries; indeed, the querying process is still bogged down in trying to create a version I'm actually happy with. Which is where the rationalization generator comes in. So one set is my reward for getting my synopsis done (at least for values of done that involve a beginning, an end, and all the bits in between), and done in time for the local writers conference this past weekend. Another set can be my reward for going to said conference. (One would think that going to a writers conference would be its own reward; one would be wrong. But that's another post.)
I'm not sure what the third set is for. Perhaps it could be a reward for finishing revisions on chapter 9b-soon-to-be-10? Mind you, I'd have to finish 'em first. But that's something I might be able to accomplish by the time the box arrives, if the shipping isn't too expeditious. Other suggestions are welcome in comments.
If only I could do queries like I can do rationalizations, I'd have an agent by now.
I also bought the CD while I was at it. Because, at that point, why not?
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Date: 2012-Apr-16, Monday 10:17 pm (UTC)You'll get to the queries, not to worry. Neil Burnside would be so disappointed in you if you didn't. And would consider it to be your own fault if you put off ordering these disks until you'd finished the queries and then found that they were all gone.
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Date: 2012-Apr-18, Wednesday 12:51 am (UTC)Well, there is that. :-) And my glee at finally having the whole thing on shiny DVD is not something I feel a need to excuse. But it was such an alluring carrot, it seems a shame to not extract some sort of effort out of myself in exchange.
Neil Burnside would be so disappointed in you if you didn't.
Eek! I'd better get querying, then!
(Reposted because I accidentally deleted it when cleaning out my Inbox. Stupid Inbox.)