In my opinion, you'll get enough of that. Why do people who should be inspiring you have to trample you too?
Willow: You know what they say. The bigger they are... Anya: The faster they stomp you into nothin'.
'The Killer In Me'
The Great Write Way
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Daisy Jane - Apr 02, 2003 8:57:52 pm PST #1137 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Ms. Havisham - Apr 02, 2003 9:18:25 pm PST #1138 of 10001
And we will call it... "This Land."
"Should" be inspiring? Aren't they trying to teach you the facts?
Edit: Okay, I'm not good with the inspiring either. But you do get it from the most unexpected directions. My own parents, who are perfectly nice people, said okay, you want to be a writer, but have a backup career lined up, okay? Which is not entirely bad advice.
Daisy Jane - Apr 02, 2003 9:21:14 pm PST #1139 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Should may have been a bad word to use. I just couldn't think of another. But if you want people to write, why quash them before they've even got their legs under them? There's plenty of people out there to do that.
Ms. Havisham - Apr 02, 2003 9:22:30 pm PST #1140 of 10001
And we will call it... "This Land."
Went back to clarify. Me and my itchy trigger finger.
Ms. Havisham - Apr 02, 2003 9:24:07 pm PST #1141 of 10001
And we will call it... "This Land."
Come to think of it, it must be pretty frustrating trying to teach writing, too.
Connie Neil - Apr 02, 2003 10:07:04 pm PST #1142 of 10001
brillig
Barbara Hambly can't write for them! She has to write another Antryg story!
sumi - Apr 03, 2003 8:38:54 am PST #1143 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
It doesn't say that she is writing for them, does it?
I thought they gave her as an example of who they would like to publish.
Theodosia - Apr 03, 2003 8:40:35 am PST #1144 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Nope, read back, she's in the first four authors listed whom they say they "have under contract."
sumi - Apr 03, 2003 8:48:00 am PST #1145 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Ah -- skimming as usual.
Steph L. - Apr 13, 2003 10:52:57 pm PDT #1146 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Okay, we haven't had anything here in a while, so I'll post two acrostic poems I wrote, inspired by R. Lizard. Bear in mind they're the first acrostics I've ever attempted.
The first one was inspired by (seriously) this dress.
****
Cherry Girl
Cock the hip and toss the
Hair as I stride across the room;
Evoking retro, fever, bad girl.
Rarely does this me get
Revealed; when she does, you say oh
Yes.
*******
This one doesn't have a title yet, although I'm thinking about "After".
Beyond the words, past the syllables’ edges (listen; this
Is for you, you said), murmurs blossom deep inside. Lighting
This fire, warming this ice-white flesh, making it
Tingle as it slowly comes to life: whispers, urgent and low,
Evoke pianissimo, largo, allegro, forte!
Rest.
Since these are memories (ghosts) of something
Which never happened, there is no
Explanation for notes still hanging in the air. No
Excuse makes sense of the repeated sharp
Twinge: phantom limb pain that lingers.