A 'go team me' bulletin: 9 pages written yesterday. 53 pages total for this month, which is a blazing fast pace for me. Yesterday I also read through about a hundred pages of old prose of another linked story to this one and actually kind of liked it.
Now you can luxuriate in a nice jail cell, but if your hand touches metal, I swear by my pretty flowered bonnet, I will end you.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
The Great Write Way
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Theodosia - Jan 21, 2003 5:54:17 am PST #446 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"
Rebecca Lizard - Jan 21, 2003 9:17:19 am PST #447 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Hey, I'm impressed! Go Theo.
Ms. Havisham - Jan 21, 2003 9:53:02 am PST #448 of 10001
And we will call it... "This Land."
Nine in one day! Wow!
Theodosia - Jan 21, 2003 9:56:21 am PST #449 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"
And it's all pretty much one conversation. I should gag my characters more often, but then they'd start miming out stuff....
Ms. Havisham - Jan 21, 2003 9:57:42 am PST #450 of 10001
And we will call it... "This Land."
No, no, no, dialog rocks. I love writing dialog, but I've never gotten it to last nine pages. (I don't think. I'd have to check.)
Theodosia - Jan 21, 2003 10:10:22 am PST #451 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"
I'll send over some of my characters with a cup of chatter. You will be sorry.
Theodosia - Jan 21, 2003 10:12:43 am PST #452 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"
Also, the conversation these characters are having hasn't finished yet. And they're about to be interupted by a third character bearing news that they will have to discuss. Possibly shouting will be involved.
Ms. Havisham - Jan 21, 2003 10:28:40 am PST #453 of 10001
And we will call it... "This Land."
I assume they're not just standing around, though. Arguing while you're driving on a snowy highway is always interesting.
Theodosia - Jan 21, 2003 10:56:47 am PST #454 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"
No, they're in a kitchen. Actually, one of the characters manages to eat breakfast while all this is going on, but then he's a teenager so I figure his appetite hasn't been much affected.
Alibelle - Jan 21, 2003 9:16:14 pm PST #455 of 10001
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
Would anyone like to read the poem I just wrote for my poetry class? You don't need to critique it if you don't want to. It just entertained me.
Luggage
Listen: "Please control your baggage," says sec
urity. But it's not so easy to command these things-
good baggage takes time to acquire, and
great baggage takes effort to master.
A lot of people pay very large amounts to do just that.
Green ripstop nylon; neglect. It isn't always
easy to control.