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Sep. 29th, 2006 02:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
resonantI seem to have run out of things to read.
Hm. I could spend less time on the internet and more time doing something productive ...
Or I could demand that y'all entertain me.
So: Ask me a question, and I'll answer it. Or tell me something -- answer a question I haven't asked.
Hm. I could spend less time on the internet and more time doing something productive ...
Or I could demand that y'all entertain me.
So: Ask me a question, and I'll answer it. Or tell me something -- answer a question I haven't asked.
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Date: 9/29/06 07:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/30/06 02:41 am (UTC)I would go by myself, and it would be a long vacation. Solitude, days and days of it, until I didn't feel that I needed to hoard it, until I didn't panic when I saw it passing by. Until I actually got tired of it, began to miss human contact. (I have no idea how long that would take.)
As for the place -- I wouldn't want attractions, per se. I'd like a place where I could take long solitary walks outdoors (without, you know, falling off a mountain or anything). During the day, warm and sunny but crisp; at night, a bit of a nip in the air.
NO NOISE. No televisions. No music unless I turned it on.
Indoors: A nice fire to read by, which was lighted and maintained by someone other than me. Excellent tea and coffee (I don't mind making that myself). Great fruit and baked goods, and an Italian restaurant within walking distance.
Little or no internet access. Maybe not even computer access, or maybe one of those deals where you can type words but you can't do anything else. I'm sure I'd find other ways to procrastinate, but at least we can take one of the methods away from me.
Windows that would open and let in a nice cool breeze to blow the curtains in. Running water somewhere nearby. Flowers in the room. Maybe the option of having a massage every now and then.
A great big bed with no one sleeping in it but me.
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Date: 9/30/06 02:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 9/29/06 07:28 pm (UTC)Question: what's the most useful piece of feedback (not beta) you've received? Why?
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Date: 9/30/06 02:31 am (UTC)Interesting question. It's hard for me to see feedback as useful, except in the sense that it encourages me to keep on writing.
I can't really say I usually learn anything from suggestions people make -- well, OK, I've learned that port comes from Portugal and not from Spain, and that there's no 'graduation' in the UK, and that there really is citrus in Mountain Dew, and that in general the answer to the question "How many editing passes does this story need?" is "One more."
But when people are positive about something, they tend to just confirm my own opinions (hey, yeah, I liked that line, too), and when they're negative -- this probably says something bad about me, but I tend to read the criticism and go, "You're coming from such a very different place on this than I am that it would be hard for me to satisfy you and satisfy myself at the same time."
I could cheat and say, "The pieces of feedback that led me to reply, 'Hey, would you beta for me?' "
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Date: 9/29/06 07:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/3/06 01:50 pm (UTC)(Sorry. The kidlet has watched Yellow Submarine to the point that everything reminds me of it.)
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Date: 9/29/06 07:39 pm (UTC)1) You are to spend 72 hours alone with a celebrity or public figure; the only requirement is that it must be someone currently living who you've never met. (Seeing them at a con or something like that doesn't count; they're still eligible.) It can be erotic or platonic or whatever you'd like; it's entirely up to you. The location/setting can be anywhere you like; cost is not an issue. Who do you choose and why, and what do you do or talk about in the 72 hours that you're together?
2) Same question for a fictional character.
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Date: 10/3/06 01:58 pm (UTC)Is it bad that I can't think of anybody famous and alive with whom I'd really want to spend 72 hours?
Among fictional characters, I'd like to spend 72 hours with Cyrano de Bergerac, except that I'm not sure I wouldn't be dead at the end of it; I'd have to work out for about a year first to keep up with him.
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Date: 9/29/06 07:50 pm (UTC)My second thought was "... um, wait, did I make that? 'Cos I think I remember ...." Then I looked at your icon page, and ... yup. Heehee.)
Answer to a question unasked: 42.
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Date: 9/30/06 02:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 9/29/06 07:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/3/06 01:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/29/06 07:58 pm (UTC)(Note: obviously this is a transparent attempt to get you to write more in that world.)
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Date: 10/3/06 02:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/29/06 07:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/30/06 02:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/29/06 08:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/30/06 02:22 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/29/06 08:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/30/06 02:20 am (UTC)Just a bunch of stuff, off the top of my head:
- Having a child has actually made other things more important to me -- not fandom, per se, but writing and relationships. Because when all my experience of childhood came from being a child, it seemed like something that went on forever, but once I had a child, it became really obvious to me that the time the kidlet spends with us is going to be very brief. (She'll be eighteen in only eleven years!)
Before I had her, the "empty nest" thing sounded trivial, and so did the effects of teenage angst/hostility on parents. Now I can really see that it's going to be necessary to actually have a life, separate from her, in order not to demand that she be the provider of all my meaning.
- On the less positive side, solid blocks of time without interruption? More precious than gold.
- Pregnancy, followed by having to be responsible for the bodily needs of a creature who couldn't speak, combined to make me more aware than before of how very much our bodies affect our minds, our moods, our emotions -- and this has changed how I interact with other people. Now, I doubt I would have been getting involved in much fannish controversy even without all that, since I'm deeply conflict-averse, but now if someone says something that hurts and infuriates me, I tend to think: "Hm. Her blood sugar might be low. Or mine might."
- I'm more aware than ever of how poisonous are most of the stories that the culture hands us. (Bratz dolls, anyone?) Not that I really think slash is a useful alternative for my seven-year-old, but when I look at her, I see a real urgency in our taking ownership of the stories.
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Date: 9/29/06 09:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/30/06 02:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/29/06 09:20 pm (UTC)(In answer to the question you haven't asked. *ggg*)
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Date: 9/30/06 02:33 am (UTC)(That'll teach you to find out what the question is first.)
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Date: 9/29/06 10:36 pm (UTC)And the thrill that Harry's voice sends
When they're all in bed,
Their appetites fed,
As they keep the sex just between friends.
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Date: 9/30/06 02:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 9/30/06 02:57 am (UTC)(Funny you should not ask that question. A lot of people not ask that question.)
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Date: 10/3/06 02:03 pm (UTC)In "The American Language," H.L. Mencken has a list of verbs that exist in American English but not in UK English, and within that alphabetical list, there was a series of four that seemed to me just to perfectly sum up the difference between America and the rest of the world:
to knife
to loaf
to lobby
to lynch
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Date: 9/30/06 05:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/30/06 01:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 9/30/06 01:00 pm (UTC)My friend
"Temporally out of order"
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Date: 10/3/06 02:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/1/06 05:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/3/06 02:10 pm (UTC)I worry a little about the way I never, ever wrote another word of Harry/Draco, though.
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