Thanks sj. I received your email as well. Deb, if you're really interested I probably have a copy of it kicking around my computer somewhere. Actually, going over the story today I noticed a logic flaw. The store's been rearranged yet the character seems to know where everything is. Whoops. Easily fixed with a quick reference though.

Oh, I assumed it had been recently rearranged, but not so recently that she hadn't picked up where things were. I worked as a checker in a grocery store. Once you got the logic, it didn't seem that hard to figure out where things had gone.

I never keep stuff after I beta it. I don't want to make the mistake of thinking it's mine 5 years down the road. I hope you do have a copy, Brynn. It would be a good thing to keep, imo.

Deb, that reading sounds more and more intriguing all the time. That's a lot of people in attendance.

Oh, I assumed it had been recently rearranged, but not so recently that she hadn't picked up where things were.

So had I; it's the sort of thing the staff always does seem to know.

Hmm. so it's not a logic problem then?

Hmm. so it's not a logic problem then?

I don't know. I didn't think of it when I read the story, but when I was working at the bookstore they kept moving things and it took me a while not to want to immediately go to where things used to be.

I talked to the editor at Mouth last night. Good conversation, full of extolling of my virtues(/Lorne) She said I should read this book called "Writing Without Teachers" and if I did I'd never get writer's block again. Which feels like a big "Nuh and uh" from here but what do y'all think? Has anyone here read it?

I'm totally the wrong person to ask, love. I've never read any books on how to write - I know there are a couple that are really popular and useful to a lot of people, though.

I've read a lot of them, but you know what that means I'm not doing? Writing. So I cut back on them. Cause it feels like warming up frozen crap and reading Bon Appetit at the same time.

I think you should get the book at the library and see if it feels like it would work for you, erika -- writing is different for every writer, and what's true for the editor might not be true for you.

I haven't heard of the book myself --let me know if it's any good!

Yeah, good point, LJ. And besides, I'm a contrarian and a malcontent. The extravagant claims make me want to say "Never? Just watch me." I could talk myself into a writer's block, just to be right. My aniMunch would point and laugh. I'm doing well now, having finished most of my old stuff.(except fic and a new thing that I'm looking stuff up for) Fic is a distracting shiny object, but I also think I learn stuff from doing it.