ita speaks true, paperdol. Aside from everything else trust this: what you wrote is very much your voice.
How people respond to that is an honest and fair appraisal.
So if it succeeds (as it is), then it is true and earned.
Right, there comes a point where you have to either move on, or just buy yourself a Klingon costume and go with it.
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Jul 27, 2007 6:29:41 pm PDT #704 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Aims - Jul 27, 2007 6:29:58 pm PDT #705 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Rosie Ruiz. Of all the cheaters, she's the one I'd most like to slap. That's just...wrong. And marathoning is nowhere dear to my heart.
No shit. What a cooze.
sarameg - Jul 27, 2007 6:43:28 pm PDT #706 of 10001
What ita said, paperdol. Especially the fucking earned part.
Also, my parents finally got a copy. Dad left work early. I interrupted my mom's reading. She made a point of that. Mainly, you're in the acknowlegements! You called before I read more! Ah, parents.
Read the book, mom. And paperdol? Thank you. Really.
More hilariously, I had to explain EW to the 'rents.
§ ita § - Jul 27, 2007 6:47:41 pm PDT #707 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My sister will be buying herself a copy when she visits NY next month, but that reminds me, dolly dol, that the fam wants a signed-by-the-author copy for their selves.
I let one of the instructors (the 17 year old) read my chapter. Her comments were "Curvalicious?" and "Oh! She talks about you like you're nice!"
Kids today, I swear.
tommyrot - Jul 27, 2007 6:49:33 pm PDT #708 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
"Oh! She talks about you like you're nice!"
Heh.
Kat - Jul 27, 2007 7:07:38 pm PDT #709 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
HA! M is so cute and she's right! You aren't nice. polite, yes. Colin = much nicer.
I need to do something with my hair. I am liking it being all a shade darker than my natural. But I miss the pink. It's a dilemma.
Pix - Jul 27, 2007 8:23:42 pm PDT #710 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I let one of the instructors (the 17 year old) read my chapter. Her comments were "Curvalicious?" and "Oh! She talks about you like you're nice!"
Bwah! That's even funnier when I picture her saying it.
tommyrot - Jul 27, 2007 11:17:54 pm PDT #711 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The fuck?
Someone apparently jumped or fell out/off of my building and landed on the roof of a garage next door. (My building is 6 stories tall. Maybe he fell out a window not all the way up?) Anyway, paramedics are getting him off the roof of the garage now. There was a lot of screaming a few minutes ago as they put him on a stretcher.
Sounds like a broken leg/foot is the worst of his injuries.
Theodosia - Jul 28, 2007 1:59:20 am PDT #712 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"
Oy, tommy! That is NO way to have to wake up!
Me, it's much less dramatic, what with the stubborn cats at 5:30, but still nicer than that.
Rayne - Jul 28, 2007 2:19:24 am PDT #713 of 10001
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire