My coworkers hear it all the time and are profoundly uninterested me: Okay, this isn't going to work. I have these characters drinking tea again. They need to do something else immediately. These words are chopped. Two hundred gone. And let's see, the confrontation is coming up soon. Any suggestions? also me: Oh. My. God. Why bother? No one reads your books. No one thinks they're anything more than adequate. You can't seem to change your style to fit what people want. You're old news. OLD. NEWS. Stale old voice. There's no point in writing yet another book that no one will wants-- me: How about if they finally talk instead of just hinting around? Yeah, and maybe that guy will say what's been on his mind since chapter two. also me: Jesus. So boring. Talk, talk, talk. You know that your-- me: How about if they-- also me: --you know your books are worthless because people want conflict and angst. They don't want to read another book wit...
Hey! I just realized that all the cool people are on this blog. Kate! I'm so glad you and I become e-friends.
ReplyDeleteWhen are we going to start our "William Hurt" fan blog? I don't expect it'll get a whole lot of traffic, but I'm sure it'll take only 3 hours a day to administer. (kidding, totally)
Would she have gotten more F'd up if she had chosen 9/11 as the drinking term, I wonder?
ReplyDeleteBTW, what were you guys drinking?
And why, Kate, why are you doing searches on ear wax?
Yo Katie,
ReplyDeleteRe: our conversation about prison guys earlier.
I launched my new convict-hero Harlequin series on my blog today. Check it out
http://reesewitherfork.blogspot.com
I'm perfectly willing to ooo and ahhh over Hurt, but Raul Julia was also in that movie. . . .
ReplyDeleteand Douglas? that was FRONT page news. Ear wax hits the big time (eewww)
ReplyDeleteOkay Amy. Next RWA conference I owe you more wine. How's that for winning big?