1. Because you're Heather. You've been around for so many major events in my life, of course I want to keep in touch. 2. Writing. Orthodoxy. The color orange. 3. I love your intelligence, and your blunt honesty. I have huge respect for your abilities as an author. 4. Sitting on my bed in my dorm room and talking to you for a very long time on the phone. 5. I might be a bit biased, but I find Vin incredibly charming, not only as a character but there's something about the way that you write him that is extremely engaging. 6. What would be your dream job, and what's stopping you from going for it? (I suppose that's a two-parter) 7. Definitely the "Attempting to give a damn" one. Hehehe. 8. You're one of the people I nabbed this from, so I suppose you're off the hook ;)
My dream job....gosh, I haven't a clue lol. I mean, after awhile, you get used to being an office drone and don't really think outside the cubicle.
If I were going to pick just any old thing, I'd love ot be a travel journalist. I could travel and write and get paid to do so! But I'm married now and pretty tied down to my responsibilities here. If I could go back and redo it, though....
As for currently, I want to get a job in our company's editorial compliance department. I think the name is pretty self-explanatory. I just need a position there to open up, preferrably NOT right after I have accepted a promotion (which is when the last two openings there have come up).
1. You're one of about four people who I met via the internet who I consider to be just as close to me as any of my good friends who I see face-to-face on a regular basis. You've always made me smile. 2. Babies. Don Pablo's (I almost drove off the road when I saw one unexpectedly a while back). 3. I love the fact that you decide that you want something, and you go for it. You have incredible inner strength that I really admire. 4. Sitting and talking for a very long time over a basket of chips. I remember very clearly how happy I was to sit and talk with you face-to-face, and how natural it all seemed. 5. I think Venya is the one that I most strongly associate with you. 6. Why was I one of the first people you and Heather asked to join HotWT? 7. I looooove the default one you're using. :) 8. Hehehe, looks like you're off the hook too ;)
1. Because you're such a nice guy ;-p 2. Greasy cheeseburgers that will give you heart failure. WoW. 3. You're so unconditional in your friendship. 4. I remember at the end of last summer, logging on to MSN just after my exit interview, and talking to you while I was still crying over everything that had just happened. You were so supportive and kind. 5. Uhmmmm...Yu. ;-p 6. What's standing between you and the life that you truly want? 7. Heh, well you only have the one. 8. Your turn! Go! Go!
Long answer: I used to think I was really hot stuff as a writer, because I'd been told how good I was all through school...and it came easily to me; I mean, as long as it was relatively short stuff, it was practically effortless (this is why I'm also a sloppy writer; I don't outline, I don't revise...90% of anything I write is simply rattled right off, and is finished right there).
Then I got to college, and peer review/workshop...and my stuff got torn to shreds. Now I thought I had thick skin, but buddy, I didn't expect the response I got. Some of it was entirely justified...but that didn't help; all it did was make me feel like a derivative hack.
On the whole (looking back), this did help me as a writer, but it mainly helped me realize that I have contempt for the "intellectual" writer who thinks things like tone and theme and metonymy are more important than just writing a good frigging story. As far as my craft goes, I've learned more from
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Gah! That should be "WRITE something decent". Love a duck...
(that's another of my problems; for all that I'm an English major, my spelling can be sketchy sometimes, and my syntax is seldom really grammatical. As I said, I'm sloppy, and have little patience with the fine points when I could be weaving a good scene.)
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2. Writing. Orthodoxy. The color orange.
3. I love your intelligence, and your blunt honesty. I have huge respect for your abilities as an author.
4. Sitting on my bed in my dorm room and talking to you for a very long time on the phone.
5. I might be a bit biased, but I find Vin incredibly charming, not only as a character but there's something about the way that you write him that is extremely engaging.
6. What would be your dream job, and what's stopping you from going for it? (I suppose that's a two-parter)
7. Definitely the "Attempting to give a damn" one. Hehehe.
8. You're one of the people I nabbed this from, so I suppose you're off the hook ;)
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If I were going to pick just any old thing, I'd love ot be a travel journalist. I could travel and write and get paid to do so! But I'm married now and pretty tied down to my responsibilities here. If I could go back and redo it, though....
As for currently, I want to get a job in our company's editorial compliance department. I think the name is pretty self-explanatory. I just need a position there to open up, preferrably NOT right after I have accepted a promotion (which is when the last two openings there have come up).
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2. Babies. Don Pablo's (I almost drove off the road when I saw one unexpectedly a while back).
3. I love the fact that you decide that you want something, and you go for it. You have incredible inner strength that I really admire.
4. Sitting and talking for a very long time over a basket of chips. I remember very clearly how happy I was to sit and talk with you face-to-face, and how natural it all seemed.
5. I think Venya is the one that I most strongly associate with you.
6. Why was I one of the first people you and Heather asked to join HotWT?
7. I looooove the default one you're using. :)
8. Hehehe, looks like you're off the hook too ;)
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2. Greasy cheeseburgers that will give you heart failure. WoW.
3. You're so unconditional in your friendship.
4. I remember at the end of last summer, logging on to MSN just after my exit interview, and talking to you while I was still crying over everything that had just happened. You were so supportive and kind.
5. Uhmmmm...Yu. ;-p
6. What's standing between you and the life that you truly want?
7. Heh, well you only have the one.
8. Your turn! Go! Go!
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Short answer: because I'm a coward.
Long answer: I used to think I was really hot stuff as a writer, because I'd been told how good I was all through school...and it came easily to me; I mean, as long as it was relatively short stuff, it was practically effortless (this is why I'm also a sloppy writer; I don't outline, I don't revise...90% of anything I write is simply rattled right off, and is finished right there).
Then I got to college, and peer review/workshop...and my stuff got torn to shreds. Now I thought I had thick skin, but buddy, I didn't expect the response I got. Some of it was entirely justified...but that didn't help; all it did was make me feel like a derivative hack.
On the whole (looking back), this did help me as a writer, but it mainly helped me realize that I have contempt for the "intellectual" writer who thinks things like tone and theme and metonymy are more important than just writing a good frigging story. As far as my craft goes, I've learned more from ( ... )
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(that's another of my problems; for all that I'm an English major, my spelling can be sketchy sometimes, and my syntax is seldom really grammatical. As I said, I'm sloppy, and have little patience with the fine points when I could be weaving a good scene.)
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