kayeaton | second draft || [written]

All right, I've got to know: Are there any publishing outfits here? In a town this size, the chances seem slim, but for all I know, there's a paper no one's mentioned to me. I've got a story or two started, and if I could see them in print, I wouldn't mind dropping my asking price to zero cents a word. It won't hurt them to sit in handwritten piles in my apartment, of course, but stories are always better when they're shared.

It's strange to think that it's May here. It was November back in Manhattan, and that meant a lot of gray skies and windy days, and some rainy ones. Thanksgiving was coming up; between Julius and I, a whole turkey is a waste of a bird, but we were going to have something nice for dinner nonetheless. And in the meanwhile, it would have been a whole lot of pounding on typewriters and talking, no doubt.

At least I left near the start of the month. Just in case time here doesn't run faster than every other world's time, he's got a few weeks to plan out a story or two about the drunken scientist or the mutant hillbillies, and from there...well, ideally, he'd show up here one of these days, too. And if not, he's written plenty on his own before; he's not about to starve to death just because I'm not there to do my share.

I do miss him, though.

((OOC: And just in case you're curious, when she says drunken scientist and mutant hillbillies, she is, uh. Completely serious.))

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You're a writer too? I don't actually miss having a publisher here though... [he never makes his deadlines... his editor has to come after him literally] Plus there is no money here, you know.

[The reply is incredibly wry; why everyone's hung up on the issue of money, Kay's not sure.] If I was publishing for the money, I'd've stopped years ago.

So what do you write?

Well, you need mention money... [and anyway he likes money a lot as that's what he zone in on]

Me? Well, mostly folklore. I collect and research them. And you?

It's a pay cut of two cents per word, and there's no rent to make. Losing out on a profit isn't going to break me.

Sounds interesting. I mostly write science fiction these days, but I like weird tales of any kind.

I guess so... Not having to pay the rent is one of the good things here.

Sci-fi sounds interesting too. Have you checked to see if they have your work in the library here? These days? What did you write before?

It's a pretty nice change, all right.

Oh, I used to write a lot of sword and sorcery stories as well. And they've got a couple of my anthologies here. So what kind of folklore are you interested in?

Yeah, it's nice not having to hear Yoko-chan nag about not having enough money for the rent and other things... [though he does miss his housekeeper]

Really? I should check them out then! What name do you go by? Japanese folklore mostly seeing as that's where I'm from. Though I do also study a bit of Western folklore.

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