Letter

After sending MILCH heavy-thick-script (1) , Phil Collins sent a short message to my mobile phone. He said, ‘Desi, you can't hurry love. No, you’ll have just to wait... (2)”. He's right. Thanks for your attention, Uncle Phil.

(1) I don’t know what’s the exactly English word for naskah. So I took the middle way (read it: jalan tengah, lol). I combined it from three words: heavy (from 150 pages), thick (just imagine how thick my MILCH was—150 pages of 70 grams paper), and script (which is better—manuscript or script?). Genious, eh?

(2) It is from Phil Collins You Can’t Hurry Love lyrics.

And that’s what I do for about a month. Waiting for Gramedia’s letter. Well, our relationship like any kind of pen-pal (lol).



You’ll get three letters when you sent your heavy-thick-script to Gramedia :

First: announcement letter—they have accepted your scipt. (Like what Phil Collins said) you have to wait cos they need about 3 months to make decision—to publish your story or not.

Twice: (still) announcement letter—wheter they accept your script or not. If they like your story and decide to publish it, you’ll asked to send your softcopy script—could be by email or burned it into cd. And you’ll get third letter. But if they don’t, you’ll get no more letter.

Third: SPP (Surat Perjanjian Penerbitan—cmiiw. I left my SPP in Yogya, and im not really sure what’s SPP stand for). There are a lot of point that arrange how your written be published and how they’ll pay you.

And today I get a letter from Gramedia. First letter. They asked me to wait—as I told on point one. Frankly, Im not quite pretty sure that they’ll accept my MILCH story. Well, err… I still could see holes among MILCH that I’ve wrote. It-was-just-not-a-perfect-story.

But I did hard work on that. I shan't be pesimist. I’ve to stop thinkin’ about my own worry. Go optimist and pray to God that Gramedia will agree to publish my MILCH script. I still have a lot of time to re-edit it again and again before the editor says, ’okey, I’ll print your story and in a few months it’s gonna be ready in bookstores. Tell your friends to save their money first, to get ready to buy your book later.’

If they accept it. Oh, they must.

Well, they’ll accept MILCH. I do really hope so. And it’s gonna be my fourth novel. Oh-oh… Amen!

Writing Tonite

Now im workin’ on Iris and Irene—my new novel project. Well, it started yesterday, but I got 13 pages for today. Im a really great-faster-beautiful-writer right? Lol. No. I’ve made a little draft, seemed like a very short story, of the Iris thing. So, when I decided to make a new one, I just picked it and re-edited it as a novel. Different type of written then. I mean in my way telling the story.

Well, when I was in toilet, doin’ normal people thing (called it: poop, err… hahaha) , I was thinking to publish it by my own. What does it called? Self-publishing? Yep, that’s it. Then, I imagined how’s Irin and Irene cover. A title, simple drawing (two people on a mringkel-mringkel [what the English of mringkel-mringkel a.k.a bergelombang?] land), and my name. I also thought about my own (future) publisher’ name. Payung. Or maybe Umbrella. It started it from the name of this blog. And then the ‘Payung’ or ‘Umbrella’ typho and logo (a little blue umbrella behind ‘a’ or ‘g’ alphabet). Black on the thypo, and blue for the logo.

Well, I just need to pray and work hard to make it come true (read: get a lot of money to make it real). Amen!

Btw, I named this Iris and Irene project ‘doc3.docx’. I don’t know why, I always feel comfort to write on a doc(1,2, or 3).docx(/rtf) file then ‘named-it-with-title-that-describe-what’s-your-story-tell-about.docx(/rtf). Well, every writer has their own way to write, right?

And this is my facebook status for tonite (or this early morning) : Iris and Irene.nocoffee.lifehouse ft. backyard frogsong.in the middle of the nite.

And enough for this blog. Time to get back to Iris and Irene thing.


Ps: finally I updated this blog (with a very messy English--well, don't care). Aiy!