You're more than welcome. I have a thing about messing with other people's content, but I line-edit pretty well. Thanks for letting me read it.
You're good. You need to be paid for writing as well as you do.
All right, no one's killing folk today, on account of our very tight schedule.
Mal ,'Trash'
The Great Write Way
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Beverly - Aug 29, 2004 8:15:06 am PDT #6240 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Allyson - Aug 29, 2004 8:16:36 am PDT #6241 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
My ego would also like to thank you.
Kristen - Aug 29, 2004 10:08:58 am PDT #6242 of 10001
I have a thing about messing with other people's content, but I line-edit pretty well.
I'm the opposite. I can suggest restructuring or reworking but I suck at the details.
I suppose that's why I am forever finding typos in my own work months after the fact.
Jesse - Aug 29, 2004 2:51:49 pm PDT #6243 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Nah, Kristen, I'm way better at editing other people's stuff -- my own, I know what it's supposed to say, so in my head, it does!
victor infante - Aug 29, 2004 3:35:28 pm PDT #6244 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Hi all. Just bopping in to pimp a friend's book:
Barbara DeMarco Barrett--an old, dear friend of mine and the person who knows more about writing than anyone else I know, and let's face it, I know a lot of people--finally has her book on writing out, "Pen on Fire."
Everyone knows I sniff at writing books, but Barbara's the real deal. Visit her Web site.
End of commercial announcement.
erikaj - Aug 29, 2004 4:28:29 pm PDT #6245 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Oh, Victor, congrats to you and Thessaly on the award!
victor infante - Aug 29, 2004 4:30:03 pm PDT #6246 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Thank ya. We're both still bouncy about it.
erikaj - Aug 29, 2004 4:31:43 pm PDT #6247 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I'm not surprised.
victor infante - Aug 29, 2004 4:37:34 pm PDT #6248 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
I'm not surprised.
I am. I think it's because we both won, and that all three of the poets come out of the Poet's Asylum.
A little backstory: the JKA is given to three poets from Central Mass. each year, as well as to a number of visual artists (not sure on the details on that side, except that the award is a bit more prestigious in painting circles, but anyway...
For years, it's been dominated by poets out of the terribly, terribly dull "lit journal" crowd, who very much look down on those of us who work the coffeehouses, slams, etc. In other parts of the country, this phenomenon has smoothed out a bit, but around here it's more polarized than I've ever seen. Never mind that I'm from a different scene entirely,and actually better published than most or all of them.
So the Asylum scoring two-thirds of the winners last year, and a clean sweep this year is pretty damn vindicating.
Astarte - Aug 29, 2004 4:56:46 pm PDT #6249 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
I'll toast that.