I asked him what I should do about it. His first suggestion was "breathe through your eyelids,"
Like the lava lizards of the Galapagos Islands!
I couldn't believe it the first twenty times you told us, but it's starting to sink in now.
Riley ,'Lessons'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
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Steph L. - Apr 28, 2005 8:12:45 am PDT #1493 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
deborah grabien - Apr 28, 2005 8:16:31 am PDT #1494 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
The rose goes in the front, big guy....
Teppy, may I say how much I adore the idea of a "really really bad drabble" challenge?
Topic!Cindy - Apr 28, 2005 8:17:21 am PDT #1495 of 10001
What is even happening?
I'm drawing a complete blank on what to attempt. Y'all have probably noticed I don't do the drabbles unless they suggest to me something from the wip or one of the embryonic novels. I definitely get tunnel vision.Susan, why don't you just go back through some of Teppy's challenges in this thread?
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Turn up missing sounds to me like the resolution came before the conflict. I think I would say went missing, though I would most often say, is missing.
Topic!Cindy - Apr 28, 2005 8:17:46 am PDT #1496 of 10001
What is even happening?
Like the lava lizards of the Galapagos Islands!
Bull Durham.
deborah grabien - Apr 28, 2005 8:19:32 am PDT #1497 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
"Turns up", to me, indicates "found", not "lost".
You know, I'd been wondering about doing a Cliche drabble for the cliche of "You can't always get what you want."
But no matter how I look at it, the drabble is always going to be "Well, no SHIT, Sherlock!", written out twenty five times.
Scrappy - Apr 28, 2005 8:21:02 am PDT #1498 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Write a description of Annabel having breakfast, with lots of detail--what the room looks like, what you are thinking about, what she says, how you feel about her--something she might like to have when she is older to get an idea what she was like and the world was like.
Susan W. - Apr 28, 2005 8:21:25 am PDT #1499 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Like the lava lizards of the Galapagos Islands!
Exactly!
And he knows me well. If you can't get through to me any other way, make a sports metaphor.
Susan, he's talking good basic common sense.
I know. I just like my tunnel vision. Nothing else in the world is half as interesting to me in this stage of the process than the wip, y'know?
erikaj - Apr 28, 2005 8:21:47 am PDT #1500 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I've heard people say that here, "turned up missing" but come to think of it they were probably Southern transplants, at that.
Amy - Apr 28, 2005 8:23:14 am PDT #1501 of 10001
Because books.
I should spend 15-30 minutes every day on something else
Such a good idea. Your husband is wise. Write something contemporary in first person. Write fantasy. Write some drabbles, as Cindy wisely suggested. Anything to exercise the muscle differently.
Teppy, may I say how much I adore the idea of a "really really bad drabble" challenge?
Me, too! Oh yes. A lot of fun to be had there.
the drabble is always going to be "Well, no SHIT, Sherlock!", written out twenty five times
Heh.
deborah grabien - Apr 28, 2005 8:24:26 am PDT #1502 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Nothing else in the world is half as interesting to me in this stage of the process than the wip, y'know?
Yep. But the thing is, if you get bogged down, you're going to have to take the blinders off and look at the wide world to unclog the circuitry.
I should go write something. I posted a locked livejournal entry, an open letter to my editor that, of course, is not meant to be sent, just venting on how damned long this is taking and how much I dislike dangling in limbo. I then had to reassure my agent that, no, it really was just a vent. Reality being what it is, my editor is 86 years old, and has one good competent assistant, and is publisher of her own imprint with two hundred plus titles a year.
But I'm feeling as if I'm writing into a void right now.