After much internal debate I have come to the conclusion that the Tuesday after the Monday off is about 29 times worse than just regular old Monday. Also, I cannot stop singing “Burning for You” by Blue Oyster Cult. This is especially weird because the Post-it Note song this morning was Paul Westerberg’s “Right to Arm Bears.”
The worst part about having Blue Oyster Cult’s “Burning for You” take root in my brain is that it brought with it a little dance that is geekier than all the rest of my choreographed dances combined. Clearly, my brain has been damaged by all the rewriting, writing, and talk about writing.
I spent, no lie, from 9 a.m. yesterday until about 5 p.m. rewriting Boobs LaRue. All that time spent and my ending still blows goats. However, I don’t know if I’ll have time to rework it again before The Loft Mentor Series stories are due. The mentors are getting a semi-decent story with a goat-blowy ending and they’ll have to be happy with that. I know I’m going to try to be.
Also, last night my writing group came out of its winter hibernation and had a lot of damn fun. I just really enjoy talking about writing and reading. And as much fan as that kind of talk was, all the hot gossip about writing teachers was way, way, way more fun. Gossip so good that I couldn’t wait to get home to tell Kelly. The gossip was so good that when I finally spit it all out she said, “You should have called me! I’d have come down for that.”
No longer tatortoless; my life is now complete for the week.
Your story rocks; you will make the list, and the mentors will adore you, or they can all blow themselves.
I still need you to send edits! Make sure to get all those pesky commas.
Shit, I really need to find myself an editor.
I’ll edit like a mad woman this evening, but overall you are a clean writer,
Dale would argue differently. I’ve subjected my writing classes to more than one run-on lecture because of my kamikaze punctuation methods.
If Boobs blows a goat at the end you’re writing a whole different kind of story.
I think it’s probably true that the easiest way to generate a crappy ending is to try to come up with a great one. Just write something that feels true to you based on the whole story and don’t worry about how anyone will rate it as a free-standing entity…
Yeah, you act like that’s just SO EASY!
I know – it’s so amazingly simple when someone else is having to do the actual work. I heartily recommend that approach to everyone. 😉