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.
It's just an object. It doesn't mean what you think.
River ,'Objects In Space'
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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.
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.
Betsy HP - Dec 02, 2003 3:06:06 pm PST #2924 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I got 15,000 words and a plot I'm really happy with; I took an idea I'd been toying with at bedtime, and it turned out to have legs.
So by my standards, yeah, I won.
Not by theirs, of course....