Man. This topic is about as uncomforting as it gets. But we're getting some incredible drabbles out of it.
Um, well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance. Then we ate cookie dough, and talked about boys.
Giles ,'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.
deborah grabien - Jun 02, 2006 6:56:37 am PDT #6901 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Allyson - Jun 02, 2006 7:53:44 am PDT #6902 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
lisah. That was simply amazing. Sometimes I wish we had a Collected Drabbles by Great Write Wayistas.
ETA: Though one would go nuts as an editor selecting them.
deborah grabien - Jun 02, 2006 7:59:21 am PDT #6903 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Sometimes I wish we had a Collected Drabbles by Great Write Wayistas.
I'm actually about to pitch that to my agent.
Allyson - Jun 02, 2006 8:01:33 am PDT #6904 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
Wow. Remind me to send flowers to the Editor. See how sure I am that it will fly?
deborah grabien - Jun 02, 2006 8:06:53 am PDT #6905 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Allyson, I'd love to see something fly right now. Jon Karp at Warners just passed on the Chronicles - he loves the idea but wasn't hooked by the writing.
Le sigh. Trying not to be cranky about it.
deborah grabien - Jun 02, 2006 8:40:02 am PDT #6906 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Sickness/Health
Another surgery, another setback. Me, in the kitchen.
"Digestive problems", they called it at the hospital, another term for just one of many remnants, many after-effects, of that short, destructive bout of rheumatic fever that would take you down as an adolescent and kill you too young.
So much you couldn't eat, so thin, so much determination sparked in me. I cooked for you, anything I thought you might eat: hot fresh bread. Steelcut oatmeal flavoured with vanilla and nutmeg. Chicken done a thousand ways, all of them bland.
The cooking was to comfort myself. The food? Stayed mostly uneaten.
Amy - Jun 02, 2006 8:52:47 am PDT #6907 of 10001
Because books.
Oooh, Deb, that's gorgeous and painful. And a little bit like the one I have brewing.
All of these are wonderful -- Liese, and Sail, and juliana's spring to mind immediately.
Amy - Jun 02, 2006 8:58:17 am PDT #6908 of 10001
Because books.
Comfort Food
I probably gained ten pounds that winter.
Your stomach simply wasn’t working, the doctors said – at first, they thought to remove it, feed you through a tube for the rest of your life, which likely wouldn’t be more than a couple of years.
You were shrinking before our eyes. My mother, the round, soft, ample woman of my childhood, was all raw bones, shockingly angular, uncomfortably brittle.
I ate for you. Cake, chips, pasta, ice cream, the warm, golden brioche from the bakery near school. There wasn’t enough food in the world to fill the hole you threatened to leave.
Dana - Jun 02, 2006 9:20:15 am PDT #6909 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
You are all depressing the hell out of me.
erikaj - Jun 02, 2006 9:28:25 am PDT #6910 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I will come up with something about cake...just getting a slow start today, Dana.