I think it's gonna be stories, probably. Although they are kind of(or very) close to life. The disability community doesn't know what to do with me any more than anyone else does. IJS.
Oh, no, oh, no! Spontaneous poetic exclamations. Lord, spare me college boys in love.
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erikaj - Nov 24, 2003 10:17:49 am PST #2914 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
deborah grabien - Nov 24, 2003 10:24:05 am PST #2915 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
erika, I suspect there may be a fucking boatload of people in the disability community who would kill for that kind of book.
Because I don't remember being any less twisted when I was in a wheelchair than I am now.
erikaj - Nov 24, 2003 10:42:21 am PST #2916 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Well, I've got nothing to compare it to, and a mom who thinks an old lady yelling at her husband "Die, you bastard, die!" is just as hilarious as I do...if not more. There was honestly no chance for anything else...tried everything, too.
Astarte - Nov 24, 2003 10:58:51 am PST #2917 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
Well, then there's us clamoring for more Erikavoice.
IJS.
I don't mean to make light, because I have the same writing demon. However, you do have a unique voice that I promise you will be speaking for many others besides yourself. Funny and dark and uncompromising and if Oliver Sacks can make a writing career out of men who think their wives are hats? There's room.
sfmarty - Nov 24, 2003 11:05:28 am PST #2918 of 10001
Who? moi??
There is a column that appears in the Chronicle (sfgate.com) from time to time called "Failing at Life". They are true stories of a woman who has neurological problems. She now has a large following.
Another series in the same paper was about a woman whose husband was hit by a car and was now a quadraplegic. Again, she had a large following.
People are interested in how other people cope. You are a good writer. Flog some columns to the newspapers. Try the Chronicle. Doesn't matter where you live. You do a book later, if you wish.
(sorry about the spelling)
sj - Nov 24, 2003 6:09:55 pm PST #2919 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
erika, I suspect there may be a fucking boatload of people in the disability community who would kill for that kind of book.
I agree with this erika. Your voice is so unique and really needs to be heard.
deborah grabien - Nov 24, 2003 6:31:15 pm PST #2920 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Listen to sj and my mama-in-law, erika, for they are Wise.
erikaj - Nov 25, 2003 5:21:25 am PST #2921 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Thanks. I'm working at it...thought I'dve cracked it by now, but you know.
Liese S. - Dec 02, 2003 2:56:50 pm PST #2922 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Well, wri mo is over. Did any of us make it? I sure as hell didn't.
P.M. Marc - Dec 02, 2003 2:58:30 pm PST #2923 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Any hope of making it died with my grandmother, sadly.
I just had too much shit hit the fan at once. I managed about 129 words.