~romani-hooligan

Thanks for all the support.

Naw, really, I'm kindof a shy person about the comment-back, and I really wanted to let everyone on my list know exactly how much I appreciate the feedback and support, especially concerning that neglected half-acclaimed story of mine.

I appreciate it. Tremendously, immeasurably so.

I've had a severe lack of updates, partly because I've been holed up in the heart of Dublin City for the past three months. Partly because all I've been doing is hanging out at the pubs and seedy kebab shops, jawing at the locals and moaning about the lack of tequila on the Emerald Isle.

Let's be honest.

I've been avoiding my schoolwork with the diligence that I should spend working on it. I've dropped one of my classes here, and have groveled at the feet of my Dean overseas, who is allowing me to make up the credit by completing a personal project to display in the Senior Show.

You guessed it; that neglected, half-acclaimed story of mine.

I've been wanting to give it a revamp, pare it down, and take it in another direction. Well, not another direction necessarily, but with another tone. It needs some clarity, and some concisity. I want it to be a full-bore no-holds-barred crash novella.

More lash, less lilt. A modern dimestore pulp story.

The extent that I'm working on it over here is scrawling panicked notes in alternating ecstasy and frustration during my Crime and the Media lectures, trying to nail down a structure and characterization that I approve of.

But then again, I'm starting to think that this meticulous planning will be my fatal flaw. Yet, if it's too amorphous, it won't be as clean as I'm envisioning it. I've got a line to walk, and an alphabet to recite backward.

In the face of this winter-cleaning, I'm going to be removing all of the chapters but the first and am going to restrict the rest of the mess to my editors.

The completed project will be available in do-or-die time for the hot graduation summer of 2008.

Now, I hate to ask more of you guys, especially when my deliverance has been so pitiful. But I want some criticism. Anything you've been dying to rip into? Anything just doesn't seem quite right? Should I use the spacebar more often? (hello, PrincessKariboo!)

Maybe I should just get on with the goddamn show.

Really, guys. Thanks.