LJ Idol Season 7, Week 0 - Introduction.

[n_maranda_coy]

Norda Maranda Coy is a fictional construct.

Oh, she didn't start out that way... not intentionally, not all those years ago.

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The "real" person behind n-maranda-coy is the same person writing under the LiveJournal username norda in private and p-m-cryan, booksbynight and mikescomics in public. That's not a secret

Comments

[lawchicky]

Welcome back!

[n_maranda_coy]

Thanks!

[gaea_rising]

Thanks for jumping in - the water's just getting comfy.

Good luck!

[n_maranda_coy]

And luck to you!

[rattsu]

Glad to have you back! You wrote some really memorable pieces last year you know.

[n_maranda_coy]

The feeling's mutual.

I surprised myself last year, in a good way, and it's time to stretch.

[alphaloria]

Nice to meet you! My writing voice is definitely more of a non-fiction/essay voice than fiction. Although I do write some poetry and it's not as "hideously bad" (aka hilarious) as the stuff I wrote in high school.

[n_maranda_coy]

Nice to meet you as well!

I'd never mastered dialogue in my own work, lo those two decades ago before I abandoned fiction. But back in 2004 I had a chance to do editing work on a colleague's screenplay, and that gave me a fresh eye and a better appreciation of how HARD dialogue is to craft.

[alphaloria]

Oh yeah, my dialogue is usually a crap sandwich served with a cup of crap soup!

[skimmed_miilk]

What an utterly compelling introduction!

[n_maranda_coy]

Thank you! Best of luck.