not Deb, (I don't write that fast) but no. Another one.

Okay, thanks. I've been away for a while; I've undoubtedly missed stuff in my skimming to catch up. But, lovely drabbles, everyone!

If anyone here isn't on my WIP list for the Seal Press anthology essay - bless angelic Vortex for the perfect title, "Truth, in the Middle" - and would like to read it, give a yell. It's done.

I would love to be on that list. My profile addy is good.

Gar, it's done, and I'm sending.

Zen brings up something I wanted to ask: would everyone who wants to have drabbles considered for the proposed anthology give a little thought to the topics they think the book ought to cover? I'd love to hear some feedback from the other writers here. Which topics appealed most to you?

Hmm - does the book have to be organized around topics? Why not just the 1000 best drabbles or 500 best drabbles or whatever fits the word length? Then pick the topics based on the drabbles picked.( OK I know I'm about to practicise a philosphy of learning here; that sometimes the best way to learn is reveal your ignorance so that bits of it can be chopped off.)

I'd love to have my drabbles merely considered, even if ultimately rejected. I'm in heady company.

Perhaps the topics could be chosen after the best drabbles are picked, as a way to narrow the undoubtedly large field?

Probolem is, most editors (AmyLiz, paging AmyLiz, white editorial phone, please) want a proposal that's showing as much pre-organisation as possible. So the chapter headings should be there, even if they ultimately reject that for their own scheme.

Thing to remember is, there is no earthly reason you can't write a new drabble for an old topic, and have it be considered. Insofar as the topics go, there aint no past-tense. You can take a challenge from a year ago and write a drabble now.

Would it be possible for Teppy to post a list of the topics we've used so far? That would give us all a feel for what topics might go together, which ones drew the most interest, which ones were the hardest to write for, which ones were the most fun/painful, etc. I love the thought of using some of the drabbles we did to those old photos, but I don't know what, if any, kinds of permission might be necessary to use them in the book.

I think my best drabble was the Door one, where I described the door in the funeral home while at my father's viewing. Doors on the whole is good, because of the transition and revelatory nature of doors.

I really enjoyed doing the ones based on the pictures Teppy found, but those won't work without the pictures.

Connie, I also suspect we want to avoid legal issues on use of the pictures in a published format.

But I'm inclined to include a separate little section of just Jilli's on those pictures. There's something very Amphigoreyish about them, and I adore them.