Dawn: I think a date should be in a real fancy restaurant, then champagne at a night club with a floor show, then ballroom dancing. Joyce: Unfortunately, we're not dating in a movie from the thirties.

'Get It Done'


The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...  

A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.


erikaj - Nov 15, 2005 7:54:44 am PST #4879 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

I don't do it about them...about the massive identity issues "What's wrong with you?" a million times a life appears to implant. "I'm a brain, a basket case, an athlete, a princess, and a criminal. That's who we think we are." Life is my Adena Watson case for a reason, I think.ETA: And also, don't just hear that stuff from full-on idiots. Some of them are smart progressives, which makes it a mindfuck that could go all night.


sj - Nov 15, 2005 7:58:57 am PST #4880 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

What's wrong with you?" a million times a life appears to implant.

Yup. BTDT. I haven't figured out how to deal with it either. I wish I could have a snarky reply waiting for that question, but I don't, and I let it affect me more than I want to but less than I used to.


erikaj - Nov 15, 2005 8:09:16 am PST #4881 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

But you're not a Bayliss(I should get permission to write that as a self-help book "The Tao of Homicide:Life on The Street") Timmy thinks the nice people asked him an interesting question and maybe he should spend a decade or two trying to find an answer and writing it up, double-spaced. Whoa...if I ever really do write a memoir, got the title already.


sj - Nov 15, 2005 8:17:17 am PST #4882 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

But you're not a Bayliss(I should get permission to write that as a self-help book "The Tao of Homicide:Life on The Street") Timmy thinks the nice people asked him an interesting question and maybe he should spend a decade or two trying to find an answer and writing it up, double-spaced. Whoa...if I ever really do write a memoir, got the title already.

I don't know enough about H:LOTS to understand this paragraph. Sorry.


erikaj - Nov 15, 2005 8:32:52 am PST #4883 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

It wasn't especially clear, having about forty-seven different thoughts and no transitions. The part that is relevant to you is that probably you let things go more than I do and are less likely to spin out over the cultural implications of things. And that maybe I ought to call my EXTREMELY hypothetical memoir "What's Wrong With You?" assuming I ever do anything that anyone wants to reflect on but me and a few intimates.Or in other words, I think I've devoted my life so far to answering that question because unanswered questions bug me so much. But I've only recently begun to consider that the question itself is a problem.


deborah grabien - Nov 15, 2005 8:36:27 am PST #4884 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

assuming I ever do anything that anyone wants to reflect on but me and a few intimates

You mean, unlike fucking Nicole Richie, who was just paid a metric shitload of money for her novel? Which, if the first few pages are anything to go by, ought to be called "Swill" or "Birdcage Liner"?

Who has done dick, nada, bupkis, but was paid to produce this, on no better basis than the fact that she's Paris Hilton's chewtoy?


erikaj - Nov 15, 2005 8:41:08 am PST #4885 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

Possibly we both underestimate the interest in Ms. Hilton's sock drawer, Deb. And yeah, she's stupid and too young to have anything to look back at. But she knows famous folks, which I don't.


sj - Nov 15, 2005 8:49:05 am PST #4886 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

The part that is relevant to you is that probably you let things go more than I do

I really don't. I am starting to learn how to though. Mainly because I am sick of giving the people who point, stare, and say stupid things control over how I live my life. But, I remember too much, I keep things that people say with me for years, and I let them haunt me.

And that maybe I ought to call my EXTREMELY hypothetical memoir "What's Wrong With You?"

I want to read it, and (I have said this before) I think it needs to be written from your unique perspective. Because I am fucking sick of "inspirational" stories.


Amy - Nov 15, 2005 8:51:28 am PST #4887 of 10001
Because books.

The most disgusting thing about the Nicole Ritchie book is that people will buy it. Or at least the publishers think people will. Sadly, I don't believe they're wrong. This country is celebrity-obsessed, with the idea of celebrity itself, not even with whatever questionable achievements thrust said celeb into the spotlight.

Like this is news, I know. But there it is.

erika, that was a fabulous drabble, by the way. I'm going back to read everyone else's...


erikaj - Nov 15, 2005 8:51:36 am PST #4888 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

John Wayne Gacy: Somehow I missed that Nicole wrote a novel instead of an account of growing up with her dad or something, which might have a minor interest.In which case what has her name to do with anything? I guess I'm still waiting to see what happens before writing about my life, in any case. So far...I don't really think there's more than what you've all seen.