Exciting. Go get 'em, Deb.
Now, I can hold a note for a long time...actually I can hold a note forever. But eventually that's just noise. It's the change we're listening for. The note coming after, and the one after that. That's what makes it music.
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erikaj - Jan 03, 2005 8:55:36 am PST #9209 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Connie Neil - Jan 03, 2005 9:07:40 am PST #9210 of 10001
brillig
I would like to publically thank Deb for the wonderful feedback she's giving me. In addition to the excellent practical help, she's helping me finally trust myself as a mainstream writer. That was the biggest hurdle.
deborah grabien - Jan 03, 2005 9:08:04 am PST #9211 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
erika, BTW, check your email.
edit: connie, welcome, ma'am.
Susan W. - Jan 03, 2005 9:24:57 am PST #9212 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Go Deb!
I emailed the contest coordinator to express my concerns and got a very nice email back, saying that I shouldn't have been marked down for first person, and she'll definitely keep a closer eye on this judge in the future. I've also written my thank you notes to the coordinator and judges to mail out today, including a perfectly polite though distant one to the problem judge.
That felt good to cross off the to do list.
deborah grabien - Jan 03, 2005 9:26:12 am PST #9213 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Susan, that's a very good way of handling that situation. If the judge has that deep an issue, they need to know about it.
Your current Anna chapter is next up in my queue!
Steph L. - Jan 03, 2005 10:53:01 am PST #9214 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
New drabble time!
Drabble challenge #38 (falling) is now closed.
Challenge #39 is: Upside-Down.
No weird stuff where you post in upside-down text, or I'll send my goons after you....
Topic!Cindy - Jan 03, 2005 11:08:45 am PST #9215 of 10001
What is even happening?
Who are your goons?
I might like it.
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?goons your are Who
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.ti ekil thgim
?snoog rouy era ohW
Steph L. - Jan 03, 2005 11:10:53 am PST #9216 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Cindyyyyyyyyy....
You'd better lock your door, girlie, because I have dispatched my goons.
Susan W. - Jan 03, 2005 2:06:29 pm PST #9217 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Deb--I don't suppose you've emailed me your Anna comments yet? I ask not to nag--there's no rush at all--but because I haven't gotten an email I was expecting that I know other people got, and the internets have been kinda random and screwy today. So I'm testing the theory that some of my email is getting lost or delayed somehow.
SailAweigh - Jan 03, 2005 3:21:22 pm PST #9218 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Upside-Down (and Nowhere Near Happyland) Drabble:
All I wanted was to be upside-down in the water. To be looking up at my mother’s face from underneath the shimmering ripples in the pool. I dove under and started doing a somersault. At once, the water that seemed so buoyant and clear when looking down on it became a mirror that reflected only myself back at me. Disoriented and panicking, I pushed against the bottom of the pool. “Let me out!” Let me out!” I wanted to scream. Lungs nearly bursting, I remembered that I was holding my mother’s ankle. I pulled myself up, back into the sun.