Ahh, life: writing group, stuff

[azurelunatic]

Signs it's going to be a great day for writing: discovering that the document you started last week has fleshed itself out to 25 pages so far.

Signs it's going to be a bad day for discussing the magicgeeking document: when three out of the five people at the table have trouble processing the word "pagan". Signs it's going to be a very bad day for discussing it in any sort of detail: when some of them are "carefully accepting" of the entire concept, if shocked by it.

Needless to say, I didn't get very much of anywhere in discussing the thing, and then wound up turning back to the computer. At a few points, I was very ready to walk out, but that would not have been fair to witchofrock.

Things got better with the writing exercise. witchofrock had us paint a naked portrait of a character. I picked Dave from ectogenesis, and they wound up at CTY. I hadn't realized that Dave and Jeff were roommates that session. Evidently they were. I got some nice foreshadowing for the GI Joe Incident, too. It was a nice PG-13 rated nude scene, for bare butt, nonsexual context. Subtext! Subtext! No females all in this scene.

Slash, anyone?

Dinner was off, as the sole other regular person there had to go pick up people from work and all that. Came home on the bus. Discovered that there was an e-mail in my inbox -- I1 in G/Unk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, ultimately, happiness. Here comes my blood sugar again, hooray. Maybe I'll be human within the hour.

Comments

[amberfox.livejournal.com]

*cheer!* Yay for l1! Sorry about the writing group thing, though.

[azurelunatic]

i1 is much of the goodness. I get to hone my response skill! Yay me!

And the writing group thing will be better when there are other strong people there who have brought writing to share. I didn't have any writing I could share there...

[easalle.livejournal.com]

Sorry I suck. :( Maybe I should just let this die instead of beating it o death in my attempt to resusitate.

[azurelunatic]

It was a matter of that one woman (the very loud Catholic one with the genius kid in the scary school) intimidating me on low blood sugar rather than you sucking.

When V gets back, she'll be mooooore than happy to gently tromple all over scary people dominating the discussion, I think, because she's good at that.

[easalle.livejournal.com]

I just thought she was funny. Stupid people who think they are smart make me giggle inside. I am good at being catty. And yes, there was a moment of smug satisfaction when we did the writing exercise. You know we tower over her in talent. And she knows it too.... They both do, but I think the little woman is cute and has potential, even if she only wants to write a memoirs.

[azurelunatic]

Stupid people who think they're smart make me go "Aaaaaaggggggggghhhh!" and leave the area, generally, because either I'm trying not to mock them or they're distracting me from doing what I want to be doing, which is generally not interacting with them.

But yeah, the other woman has definite potential. I really liked her bit. If only the other woman hadn't been there... I hope she comes back.

And then that lady who was there earlier, the one with all the earrings who was dropping by while waiting... she gave me the creeps. I sort of shut down because of that.

[easalle.livejournal.com]

Once agian, the waiting one, she made my giggle inside too. How can someone near twice my age possess half the wisdom? To have experienced so much but be open to so little. The quote that got me was, 'Oh so its a wing thing, not just a black bat thing. That makes me feel better.'. Yeah... Smile sweetly, make mundane talk, know that she doesn't want to learn anything, and be happy that she will die before me. Don't let the likes of her bug you. They hate their lives but they will never admitt it. They are sad and scared by anything new, or different.

[azurelunatic]

I guess I would have found them a lot more amusing if a) my blood sugar hadn't been crashing out, and b) I hadn't brought anything to go over in group. But I really couldn't actually bring out any of the magicgeeking document to read with them around...

[easalle.livejournal.com]

I would. Next time. Open it up. I promise you no matter who is there, I will defend you and your work. It is a writer's group after all, not a debate club, and they are the outsiders. When they can hold their own with an open mind and a pen as swift then they can complain. I really did want to get an idea of what the newbies wanted to accomplish though. I am glad you liked the exercise at least, I have many more. I hope they can keep up.

[azurelunatic]

This is going to be fun. And this thing sooooo needs to be torn apart and reassembled, and text shifted around from heading to heading and rephrased. Some of my stuff is too sarcastic to see print...