talk about awkward

[julian_griffith]

 So, when I got "Lost and Found" submitted, I decided I'd drop a little thank-you note to the fellow who'd made this page about the B-24 bomber, because it was so helpful for me to have those diagrams, and everybody likes to get positive feedback, right?

He sent me a nice little reply saying "thanks for the nice note, glad it helped you, I'd love to

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[sandra_lindsey]

"...and I see how my own doubts are keeping me silent... and I want to cry."

I hear you on that. Practice makes it easier, but still there's the feeling of societal judgment.

Then again, one gets just as many odd looks when one talks about the process of character-driven writing and says things like "and then suddenly he told me xxx and I realised that was the key to the whole story. Why didn't he tell me that at the start??" Non-writers think that we make the stuff up ourselves...

[julian_griffith]

True, but talking about character-driven writing is a little less likely to get you mail telling you that you're going to Hell, or deserve to. And with this guy, I'm also worried that he'd think I was profaning his father's memory, or something

[mylodon]

*hugs*

If you ever get brave enough to tell him, then try it. You may just be pleasantly surprised...

[julian_griffith]

I'm thinking, if it gets accepted, I might say "it's appearing in a charity anthology in support of LGBT folks serving in the armed forces, I'm proud to help support our servicepeople" and see how he takes it from there.

But I'm still not feeling brave. He lives in a state that refused to make Martin Luther King Day a state holiday & has terrible anti-immigrant policies. Makes me nervous.

[stevie_carroll]

I always wonder whether to include my research into the Blood Donation Criteria for LGBT+ Lib Dems on various versions of my CV. Usually I decide that either potential employers will accept it, or I didn't want to work with them anyway.