Love that, Erin.

Hee.

Cute, Erin. You should post that at some of the fic archives.

Diego Desperados

The gravel road was a dark gray shadow against the dense growth of scavvy and palm trees. I stubbed my toes on the uneven surface trying to keep pace with Chuck and CJ. While stealth wasn’t necessary at this point, it added to the adrenaline rush making my heart trip uneasily. It wasn’t too late to back out.

Two hot boys, lots of beer and a landrover stolen from the Royal Marines; a recipe for disaster if there ever was one.That was my thought two weeks later when I was standing in front of the C.O. during Captain’s Mast.

editted for more sense making.

Hah! real bite in that one, and makes me laugh too.

Question: when someone compliments a work by you and likes it more than you do, do you ever have to bite your tongue in order to just say "thank you" rather than correct them?

That is: is your impulse to to correct them and say "no it is really not all that - has the following flaws".

Bite your tongue till it bleeds. Kill the impulse to self-criticize for an audience. It only makes people feel you're either fishing for compliments or that you think they're stupid.

IOW, why, yes, I know just what you mean.

headdesk

Thanks. Yeah I know better than do it. That's why the tongue biting, But yeah, it helps to know that others go through it.

Oh, yes, the voices in my head are very active.

My biggest challenge as a writer. Even more than time management.

yeah.

skips several hundred posts

Hello! Sorry to drop in like this - my getting-on-with-the-damn-book has sort of ground to a halt again, but this morning I suddenly had A Fabulous Idea For A Book. (I thought.) One that's surely not been done before.

Except, of course, it has. So a swift Google tells me.

But this is okay, right? I mean, just because I'm not actually being as utterly original as I thought...I mean, okay, so the one-sentence summary of my idea would apply to the other chick's books, but apparently the other chick is going for serious gothic romance, whereas I was going for more of a piss takey, melodrama-puncturing, Jane Austeny approach. So - so it's still worth having a crack at, right? To see whether it's fun and all that?

Yes. Right. It is. I'm going home now to see whether there is a story in my head, rather than just a gimmick. I think there might be.

crosses fingers.

Oooh, Fay fic. Bring it!

Oh Fay, yes. Do it. Do it. You have such voice -- your story isn't going to sound like anyone else's story.