[stylist] Update on my publishing progress

[James H. "Jim" Canaday M.A. N6YR]

Thanks Lori!
that's quite a story.  please let us know when you hear angels singing again.
seems good enough to be published as is.  oh well.
jc

At 02:01 PM 3/1/2010, you wrote:
>Good question.  iT was originally just a letter detailing the 
>incident.  they fictionalized it!  They stuck in things that i never 
>said or did, though they left the core of the story.
>
>Anyway, if I wanted to use the story, I'd just write it again, 
>without theirs or mine in front of me.  Here's the core of it:
>
>When my daughter was about to give birth to my first grandchild, her 
>husband called us at home to say she had gone into the hospital.  It 
>was the eve of a Jewish Holiday, but in June, so the days were 
>long.  (Jewish holidays start at sunset).  I realized David and I 
>had to go out.  We were singing that night.  So I asked Aaron to 
>call back if she had the baby before sunset.  She didn't, and he 
>didn't.  We did sing, but i was hopping from one foot to the other 
>during our concert, and dismayed that I now wouldn't know for two 
>days what she'd had, or the outcome of her labor (a healthy mother 
>and baby).  (Since my daughter and her husband are orthodox, they 
>don't make calls on the Jewish holy days.)
>
>Needless to say, I had trouble sleeping, but I finally did fall 
>asleep, and found myself in a dream.  I sat at my dining room table 
>with my two daughters.  My older daughter was talking about a snood 
>or a wig she used (for religious purposes), when an angel appeared 
>in the dining room.  He wore a skull cap, but had no wings.  He 
>unrolled a scroll and sang, "You have a grandson."  If you have ever 
>heard an angel singing, you know that no other voice can match it 
>for beauty.  I woke up, and looked at the clock.  It was about 5 
>a.m.  I lay back down, and thought i heard the phone ringing, and a 
>voice on the answering machine, singing, "You have a grandson."  I 
>remember thinking, 'How nice of the hospital to call.'
>In the morning, I realized the hospital had not called, and in fact, 
>we had forgotten to turn on the answering machine at all.
>But a call to the hospital confirmed that we did indeed have a 
>grandson, and later discussion with my daughter revealed he had been 
>born at just about 5 a.m.
>
>The magazine story left out the concert, had me saying evening 
>prayers right before bed, and various other things that had not been 
>in my initial letter.  I barely recognized the story!
>
>But it was nice to get the check anyway.
>Lori
>
>On Mar 1, 2010, at 12:21:59 AM, "James H. \" <n6yr at sunflower.com> wrote:
>
>Lori,
>in that situation where they paid you for your story but hardly used
>it, how much change would you have to make to your original story so
>you could then seek to publish the original the way you wrote it?
>jc
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