I'm just busy trying to construct a horrific past for myself so I can get published.
Lorne: My little prince. Oh…what did they do to you? Angel: Nina…tried to…eat me. Lorne: Oh, you're--medic! You're gonna make it Angel. Just don't stop fighting. Doctor! Is there a Gepetto in the house?
'Smile Time'
Natter 57 Varieties
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.
Ginger - Mar 04, 2008 9:15:17 am PST #2868 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
msbelle - Mar 04, 2008 9:15:22 am PST #2869 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
it probably did not hurt that your agent knew some of us, right?
§ ita § - Mar 04, 2008 9:16:07 am PST #2870 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I gave my editor your number, did he call?
Nope. I could be a figment.
Dana - Mar 04, 2008 9:17:37 am PST #2871 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I'm just busy trying to construct a horrific past for myself so I can get published.
You were a book editor, Ginger. In STALINIST RUSSIA. And you published this book that was supposed to be a memoir, but it turned out to be total fiction. And you are the Princess Anistasia.
Susan W. - Mar 04, 2008 9:22:17 am PST #2872 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I'm just busy trying to construct a horrific past for myself so I can get published.
Well, when the James Frey thing broke, I was all grumbly because as a writer of historical fiction, I can't really fake a memoir. I mean, even the most credulous idiot won't believe I was alive in 1811...unless I'm the reincarnation of a Peninsular War camp follower writing a past life memoir.
Except now I'm writing an alternate history, so, uh...I'm channeling my past life spirits from an alternate universe? Think anyone will buy that?
Allyson - Mar 04, 2008 9:22:21 am PST #2873 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
it probably did not hurt that your agent knew some of us, right?
I'm sure it made a big difference, yes.
Scrappy - Mar 04, 2008 9:24:10 am PST #2874 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I realize I am being all me me me.
No, you are being all "I am sharing my unique personal knowledge of this subject we are discussing." In other words, please don't stop.
hippocampus - Mar 04, 2008 9:27:04 am PST #2875 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
I'm just busy trying to construct a horrific past for myself so I can get published.
growth industry!! we could offer this as a service! We'll be rich!
eta: (um, if these guys can - [link] - offer SL office design services and podcast vocal coaching, we could certainly do 'life enhancement services')
erikaj - Mar 04, 2008 9:27:16 am PST #2876 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
My stepfather brought a gangbanger home from the crazy hospital to stay with us for...three months? But now I can't write about it because it sounds like: Yeah, right. But I swear it is completely true. Although not quite as dramatic as I just made it.
Ginger - Mar 04, 2008 9:28:57 am PST #2877 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I could wildly exaggerate some of the real horrificness, but not while my mother is alive. She'd out me in a New York minute.