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posted by
teddypoet_TheGoodByeFade
on September 8, 2006 at 6:16 AM
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Hell yeah!
What Terpgirl said. In spades.
I have said it before and I'll say it again: Someday, all this shit will probably make you rich beyond your wildest dreams.
Take care!
posted by
strat
on September 8, 2006 at 5:56 AM
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I used to read you all the time, then I fell off the map
then you changed names and fell off. You're the same you, only with more attitude.
I know you feel like your life is crappy, and with 100 percent good reason right now. But you may be able to use this all later. I've been a journalist for 20+ years, editing books for people most recently. I know you don't ever mean it to come off this way, but you come off as a serious writer. Stay with me.
The WAY you say things reminds me of how I tell my family stories. I'm talking to my father about my husband buying himself a pair of vinyl boots for our anniversary so we'll match (no I didn't know he was doing that), and my father is roaring. I'm going through an insane divorce. I was loaded once, and I'll probably lose everything. And my father is roaring. People are always roaring, tearing up when I tell these stories (not the broken-hearted ones, mind you...they're not total asses). There's a reason.
It's all in how you tell it, and it's all in how you live it. As down as you are with all this, you are living it. You put time into your kids and your dog. That you wrote the note to the teacher on the homework you couldn't do....that's a great, great article, and you're bold enough to tell it. You have a great voice, and your ability to get this stuff out of you is what, in part, is getting you through this.
I totally get that my father was laughing about my boot story. If I stepped back from myself and the crappy stuff I'm dealing with and the horror of what may come, there are some funny parts. The audacity of what people will say and do to you is funny. And you have the ability to convey that.
I'm telling you, keep all of the stuff you are writing now. Even the hurtful stuff. I'm hoping there will come a time when you believe in yourself enough to put this stuff out there. There is a book in this.
I edit so many books that leave me just wondering why I do this. Some people thing that they have something to say, and they fall flat. You don't.
Kim
posted by
terpgirl30
on September 6, 2006 at 8:21 PM
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LOL... Thanks Ariala. It wouldn't be the first time! LOL
posted by
-blackcat
on September 6, 2006 at 6:58 PM
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been missing you
posted by
Xeno-x
on September 6, 2006 at 5:56 PM
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kiddo, send those problems to Blackcat next time. She helps me with my
preschool math all the time
(Nice to see ya back!)
posted by
Ariala
on September 6, 2006 at 4:46 PM
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