Got another bite from an agent requesting my manuscript.
Keep fingers crossed....
Dawn: Any luck? Willow: If you define luck as the absence of success--plenty.
'Touched'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
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Allyson - May 26, 2005 10:43:29 am PDT #2344 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
deborah grabien - May 26, 2005 10:45:15 am PDT #2345 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Go, Allyson!
ita! I just wrote The Section, where the reader gets their first solid introduction to Domitra Calley, the bodyguard. You're very recognisable, physically, in this.
She gets to call my protagonist - based on the original love of my life - a dick.
I am soooooooooo happy.
Let me know if you want it on its own, or with the rest.
edit: oh, man, my daughter is of the funny. I'd said, A question: Scene is a medical clinic, funded and licensed to treat heroin addicts. They have drugs, are licensed to store them for the treatment of said addicts. What in hell is the proper term for the room where those drugs would be locked, stored, kept, and inventoried?
My daughter's response?
Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston's house.
What?
Amy - May 26, 2005 10:57:49 am PDT #2346 of 10001
Because books.
Got another bite from an agent requesting my manuscript.
Awesome. Crossing them now.
Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston's house.
Snerk.
§ ita § - May 26, 2005 11:14:05 am PDT #2347 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Congrats, Allyson!
Deb -- all together would be best, for context.
deborah grabien - May 26, 2005 11:17:21 am PDT #2348 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
ita, sending the entire thing, edited and updated to this point. It's a bit over 100 pages, just about 21K words. Dump any older version - the one I'm sending replaces them.
deborah grabien - May 26, 2005 2:19:02 pm PDT #2349 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Music in Shadowland
"Talk to him."
I say nothing. He's been unconcious for a few hours; a mild heart episode, they said, but it happened during dialysis and somehow, some way, he's just decided to shut it all down for a bit. He's not dying - I'd know if he was. But he's not here, either.
"You should talk to him, Deborah. You never know what a person in this state will react to."
I say nothing. I lace my fingers through the long pianist's fingers, and bring my lips to his ear.
"Talk to him."
I begin to hum, his favourite riff.
SailAweigh - May 26, 2005 2:59:31 pm PDT #2350 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Deb, that is absolutely beautiful.
deborah grabien - May 26, 2005 3:12:11 pm PDT #2351 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
It's also absolutely true. Happened the same day I tried to kill a would-be rapist who picked me up hitching to get to the hospital.
Life - weirdly enough - was cleaner and simpler back then.
Astarte - May 26, 2005 4:44:10 pm PDT #2352 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
Allyson, good luck with the biting agent.
Beverly - May 26, 2005 8:36:23 pm PDT #2353 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Allyson, fingers crossed for you.