Allyson, if you believe that your writing is like Olen's or Ayelet Waldman's, there's not much I can do to comfort you. However, nothing of yours I've read is similar.
It's not like I'm bitching about everything autobiographical.
Hey, man, where are my pants? I have my hippo dignity!
Oz ,'Bring On The Night'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Jul 19, 2005 11:59:26 am PDT #1263 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
sarameg - Jul 19, 2005 11:59:50 am PDT #1264 of 10002
Post is not the Message Center Button. Who knew!?
-t - Jul 19, 2005 12:00:28 pm PDT #1265 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
People are strange, askye. Maybe someone is suspicious of his or her spouse.
Dana, I'm pondering the dining options. I'll e-mail as we approach the date. This'll be my first vacation that doesn't involve going to someone's wedding or visting family since my honeymoon. I'm excited.
sarameg - Jul 19, 2005 12:02:24 pm PDT #1266 of 10002
I haven't read your stuff yet (yet!) Allyson, but from the descriptions I've seen? Those words weren't aimed at your kind of work. Not even in the same vicinity.
Allyson - Jul 19, 2005 12:04:19 pm PDT #1267 of 10002
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
nothing of yours I've read is similar.
We're in the same family, I think. Arrogant and bitching about the inane.
I think the major difference between them and me is a level of such staggering self-involvement that they're completely blind to the consequences of what they write, or to feel any sort of empathy for their subjects. But the bones of it are the same.
Cashmere - Jul 19, 2005 12:06:54 pm PDT #1268 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
Do you call the number back to see who called? Or ignore it? Or what?
Sometimes I ignore it. Sometimes I pick up and answer. But usually I don't bother.
I love my caller i.d.
§ ita § - Jul 19, 2005 12:07:01 pm PDT #1269 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You'd call your writing "candid," Allyson? Noting that the quotes are there for a reason.
sarameg - Jul 19, 2005 12:08:07 pm PDT #1270 of 10002
is a level of such staggering self-involvement that they're completely blind to the consequences of what they write, or to feel any sort of empathy for their subjects.
Aaaand, after many failed attempt to describe the genre that bugs me, you just did.
P.M. Marc - Jul 19, 2005 12:09:02 pm PDT #1271 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I think the major difference between them and me is a level of such staggering self-involvement that they're completely blind to the consequences of what they write, or to feel any sort of empathy for their subjects. But the bones of it are the same.
I think the major difference between you and them is that you have a sense of humor and it shows. I get the impression that you're far closer to Sedaris than to any of the aforecomplainedabout writers.
Allyson - Jul 19, 2005 12:14:33 pm PDT #1272 of 10002
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
You'd call your writing "candid," Allyson?
I do.