Lots of Major Life Choices are "ahas!" Sometimes you just KNOW.
Teppy is wise.
And hot. IJS.
I seen you without your clothes on before. Never thought I'd see you naked.
Mal ,'Trash'
Spike's Bitches 24: I'm Very Seldom Naughty.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Jen - Jun 22, 2005 7:27:51 am PDT #6177 of 10001
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
Sparky1 - Jun 22, 2005 7:28:04 am PDT #6178 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
((vw))
Lilty, I got your message and backflung.
Susan W. - Jun 22, 2005 7:30:39 am PDT #6179 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
You probably did all that, just below thw surface. IT's hard to follow a concious decision-making protocol when you don't actually know what the problem is, after all. When the solution clicks into place at the same time you figure out the problem, you must have been working on it somehow.
That makes sense--and now that I think about it, the writing decision has been brewing for awhile, at least since a very smart agent suggested in a Q&A session several months ago that I consider historical women's fiction. I resisted the idea, because to me "women's fiction" suggests either chick lit or, on the opposite end of the spectrum, self-consciously literary stories about women's life stages where nothing much actually happens, not the Girls' Own Adventure Stories I naturally seem to write. But I suppose on some subconscious level I was thinking, "What if I can write romantic stories without them being romances per se?" and it all came to a head when I realized the wip is likely to be 25-50K words too long, and that if I follow the romance rules I have to leave out or gloss over too much that matters to me.
But still. While I can't deny the existence of things like epiphanies or love at first sight (I knew the day I met DH that I'd marry him), my inner Vulcan still frowns and tsk-tsks over how illogical they are.
Lilty Cash - Jun 22, 2005 7:31:29 am PDT #6180 of 10001
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
(((VW)))
I hope you feel better soon, and know that you are MORE than good enough to do your job. You are great.
CaBil, that's great news! And I don't know what part of Maine you are going to be back and forth between, but if there's anything I can do(Barring, alas, a couch, because it's apparently being sold posthaste) please ler me know!
EpicTangent - Jun 22, 2005 7:33:11 am PDT #6181 of 10001
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Skipping ahead to say Hello All, thanks for all the B-Day wishes! I had a pretty darn good day, wandering around the San Diego County Fair with Mom, nowhere near a computer the whole livelong day...
Therefore, I'm going back to catch up on a few hundred posts each in Bitches and Natter. See you again in a while!
-t - Jun 22, 2005 7:37:34 am PDT #6182 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
{{vw}}
Yay Cabil's FiL!
Aims - Jun 22, 2005 7:38:07 am PDT #6183 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
David, can you relink to that site with the rolls and fingercurls? I need ideas for my hair for the wedding in October.
Steph L. - Jun 22, 2005 7:43:06 am PDT #6184 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Other than my One True Bra, I HATE TODAY AND WANT IT TO DIE NOW PLEASE.
Aims - Jun 22, 2005 7:43:44 am PDT #6185 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
What's your one true bra?
Steph L. - Jun 22, 2005 7:44:50 am PDT #6186 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine