"Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead." -Gene Fowler
I think if you just love every word that drops from your fingertips to the page, you're Anne Rice.
Saffron: You won't tell anyone about me breaking down? Mal: I won't. Saffron: Then I won't tell anyone how easily I got your gun out of your holster. Mal: I'll take that as a kindness.
'Trash'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
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Ginger - Sep 03, 2008 9:03:04 am PDT #866 of 6681
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
SailAweigh - Sep 03, 2008 11:28:29 am PDT #867 of 6681
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Allyson, I hope the last three chapters go really fast for you, ripping out veins sounds uncomfortable in the extreme.
For those of you who thought I'd left my cookie jar drabbles behind, this follows on right after the very first one I wrote SailAweigh "The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time..." Feb 3, 2008 8:03:41 am PST:
Hat Trick
"Got any spare change, buddy?"
The man glanced at her and then down at her tip jar. Face averted, he entered the McDonald's next to her. Another puffed up high-hatter, eating cheap before blowing half his paycheck in the bars lining State Street. Third one that night, who couldn't even spare a quarter. Her breath puffed out in disgust. She bent over to count the coins in the jar, when a bag was thrust toward her. Off balance, she clutched it to her chest, the smell of warm burgers and fries drifting to her nose.
She met his eyes. "Thanks."
Ginger - Sep 03, 2008 1:00:51 pm PDT #868 of 6681
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Allyson, here's something to read when you start thinking you can't write: [link]
Barb - Sep 04, 2008 10:14:14 am PDT #869 of 6681
“Not dead yet!”
BTW, Sail, meant to say I really loved how you turned that on its ear. It was lovely. And I could just smell the burgers and fries and damned if I didn't want some Mickey D's fries in that moment.
Toddson - Sep 04, 2008 10:18:57 am PDT #870 of 6681
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Barb, I'd wandered through your LJ at one point. I have a candidate for your cabana boys.
Barb - Sep 04, 2008 10:30:24 am PDT #871 of 6681
“Not dead yet!”
Ah, Sebastian. Not only has he been a cabana boy in the past, he was the avatar (in this guise)for Guiile in Adiós
Pretty, pretty Sebastian.
Toddson - Sep 04, 2008 10:33:48 am PDT #872 of 6681
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I spotted him not too long ago on Christina promoting something (I wasn't listening closely enough to tell what) that involved him wearing a loin cloth. (I got kinda distracted.)
Barb - Sep 04, 2008 10:39:17 am PDT #873 of 6681
“Not dead yet!”
Heh-- wonder why... The loincloth was probably for the play in which he winds up completely nekkid.
Atropa - Sep 06, 2008 7:52:17 pm PDT #874 of 6681
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I just finished a revision pass on the first five chapters of the book. I'm starting to worry that I've lost my mind and am missing a whole bunch of things that need fixing. I just sent it off to my feedback angels, and am awaiting a flurry of "Um ... here's this list of stuff you need to work on" email.
JenP - Sep 07, 2008 3:58:37 am PDT #875 of 6681
Allyson, Sam made a visit to Delaware last week. He was hanging out (literally) under the roof outside of my place of work. I totally meant to take a picture, but I forgot. I could kick myself. Anyway, everyone who saw him thought he was adorable. The pizza guy down the way left some water out for him, which was beyond adorable.
Anyway, just thought you'd like to know. I assume he's on his way across the Atlantic by now.