Do it Erika!
Remember that sex we were planning to have, ever again?
Zoe ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Pix - Nov 28, 2004 1:19:01 pm PST #8285 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
deborah grabien - Nov 28, 2004 1:20:45 pm PST #8286 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
erika, definitely do it.
Pix - Nov 28, 2004 1:32:07 pm PST #8287 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Deb- I'm tweaking that essay based on the comments we'd discussed via email. In about fifteen minutes or so, might you have a second to reread and see if the revisions fix the problem?
erikaj - Nov 28, 2004 1:40:22 pm PST #8288 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
The only prompt for that one is a single word. "Cut" as a theme. One of the judges writes for "The Wire"...we may have Sensibility Issues from the other end.Cause I'm just a dumb white girl from Glendale, apart from the brain damage thing. And another entry fee I can't really afford...it's not very big, but still. It's not like it's guaranteed, for sure. I'm about zero for five.
Pix - Nov 28, 2004 1:45:32 pm PST #8289 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Erika, this is a cliche, but still true: if you never try again, you will always be zero for five. Keep taking that risk. You inspire me.
deborah grabien - Nov 28, 2004 1:55:51 pm PST #8290 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
erika, what's the problem? Happy to beta. You just go write it, please.
Kristin, I'm just out of the shower, but you bet, send along.
erikaj - Nov 28, 2004 2:00:06 pm PST #8291 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Thank you...I know you didn't mean that in a Tiny Tim sense, right?Part of it is an honest desire to express things about life and part of it is a big jolt of fuck-you to all of those people who've wanted me to give up "that writing thing" in favor of, well, I'm not sure...(Maybe that's why I haven't. No better offers. Or maybe because it's the writing thing or the minimum-security thing. )At least these people won't hate that my characters swear sometimes. But I'm still disappointed about "Partners".ETA: What the problem always is, Deb. "What if I clutch? And my dreams crash and burn."(Whoa...two Homicide refs in two posts..there might be something in this obsession thing, after all.)
deborah grabien - Nov 28, 2004 2:02:27 pm PST #8292 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Imprint
From an old photograph, with "Lausanne 1939" on the back, she stares up at me.
Christ, she's gorgeous. Blue-black curls, huge eyes, cheekbones, but more than that? She's loving it. Unlike me, she has beautiful arms; one hand's on an out-thrust hip, one perfect leg teases the photographer: probably my father.
She's an icon of arrogant sexuality. She looks more like the me I've known all these years, than the she I knew all those years.
I wonder what, in the weight of time, could have twisted this confident siren into the cold bitter woman I never wanted to know.
Pix - Nov 28, 2004 2:06:53 pm PST #8293 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Deb, ouch. That drabble stings.
I'm putting the finishing touches on the revision. It will be insent shortly.
deborah grabien - Nov 28, 2004 2:09:12 pm PST #8294 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Looking at that picture of my mother is a genuine viscero-emotional disconnect. I look more like her than any of the other kids, and I can hardly stand to look at it. It terrifies me. What happened to her?
I'm here, and drying off before we head south, and will open as soon as it gets here.