One more congratulations to Allyson! This is so exciting!
I fell down and got confused. Willow fixed me. She's gay.
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Lilty Cash - Aug 11, 2005 5:28:56 am PDT #3531 of 10001
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Allyson - Aug 11, 2005 10:57:45 am PDT #3532 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
deep breath
I adore her. We just talked about the essays and such, and the proposal. I have to do an overhaul on Save Firefly, and we talked a bit about The Misery Effect, the one about craxy!fans and the hatemail they send to writers, and just who owns the story?
And also? I have a very distinctive voice.
I don't really know what that means but it made me feel really really good.
Scrappy - Aug 11, 2005 11:06:28 am PDT #3533 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I TOLD you! I ain't much of a cook, and I can't play a musical instrument, and I never learned Algebra--but I know good writing when I see it.
Amy - Aug 11, 2005 11:07:28 am PDT #3534 of 10001
Because books.
I have a very distinctive voice. I don't really know what that means but it made me feel really really good.
Because that *is* really really good.
Allyson - Aug 11, 2005 11:19:08 am PDT #3535 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
So is it more like Kathleen Turner, or Colombo?
I need to do a lot of writing/rewriting, so I think I'll ask for a vacation day tomorrow. Yeah? Yeah.
Thank you guys a whole hella lot.
erikaj - Aug 11, 2005 11:22:55 am PDT #3536 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
No, babe. It means that an Allyson sentence sounds like an Allyson sentence and you have a way of talking about this stuff that nobody has.
Allyson - Aug 11, 2005 11:25:34 am PDT #3537 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
erika, i love you for that. and for you know, all the other stuff.
gah. I'm so excited to get it all done! Soon now.
erikaj - Aug 11, 2005 11:29:50 am PDT #3538 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
That's what "distinctive voice" means for us, Allyson. Apart from the blank looks from the average. Like "pacing problems" means "big old boring slow spot."
Betsy HP - Aug 11, 2005 1:12:07 pm PDT #3539 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I have a very distinctive voice.
Yup. And it's a goldmine.
What that means is that a posting by Allyson doesn't sound like a newspaper article, it doesn't sound like an NPR essay, it doesn't even sound like ita. When you write something, it sounds like you, and it doesn't sound like anybody else.
Editors LOVE that. Go to any writers' convention, and you'll hear editors saying "We aren't really looking for any topic, we're just looking for a unique, compelling voice". Then you will hear desperate writers asking how to fake that.
Fay - Aug 11, 2005 4:01:09 pm PDT #3540 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
's true. You always sound very Allyson. It makes me smile. It's an enviably distinctive voice. Go Team You!