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[cleolinda]

Owwwwww.

Jaw stiff--hard to open. The Pudding Festival continues. The IV bruises look atrocious, and my teeth were gross from drinking so much grape juice. Think I'll switch to ginger ale tomorrow.

Want to go see Eternal Sunshine with Aunt Awesome, but don't think I can make it. Not through a movie in a theater, t'any rate. Today I managed to get through both Whale Rider and Lost in Translation, but with many, many breaks, and that was an accomplishment in itself. I'll try to write up actual reviews tomorrow--I'm a little ambivalent about LIT, because it took me so long to see it that I was sort of expecting the Second Coming by the time I actually did. As for WR, well... Pai is definitely my girl.

Thinking about running a post in writer_ads_news, which would necessitate actually writing up some community rules/guidelines for writer_girls. Basically, we need more warm bodies, both to critique and to submit work for critique. buneater is going to help me mod, which is good--my problem is that I'm great with ideas, but I don't always have the resources to do everything I come up with. (Daily Digest readers: "No! REALLY?") If anyone out there--new and old friends alike--is interested in joining the comm, it's basically focused on 1) constructive criticism and 2) writing exercises. We have a few of the latter, and I'm looking up more. Basically, I don't care how well you write when you walk in the door--I care how much you want to improve and help others.

... I had something else to say, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was. Damn painkillers. I think I'll watch Pirates of the Caribbean tomorrow. That's about the level I'm at right now: squee is the best medicine.

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[edda.livejournal.com]

I hope your jaw feels much, much better by the time you read this. Mine was OK by the second day, but my teeth were in straight and the extraction was pretty straightforward (I did, however, get to spend that whole first day puking my guts up, because we did not then know that anasthesia and opiate painkillers make Shannon's stomach very, very unhappy.)

Umm...exactly how much output must one have for this writer girls thing? Because perhaps joining up would actually get me motivated to write something, but I don't want to treat this like a dilettante's spa while everyone else is seriously grinding in out, right?

I want to see The Whale Rider and have no excuse for missing it so far. Must rent...

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Umm...exactly how much output must one have for this writer girls thing? Because perhaps joining up would actually get me motivated to write something, but I don't want to treat this like a dilettante's spa while everyone else is seriously grinding in out, right?

Seriously? WG is so laidback, man. It's just like, "Hey, whenever." And since we're focusing on exercises and prompts and "Help! I'm stuck!," you + WG might be a perfect match.

Also, I think I just like the idea of a writer's community as a spa. Ahhhhhhhhhh...

[dietcokebreak.livejournal.com]

I loved loved loved Whale Rider. After ROTK it is my favourite movie of the year, and despite all the odds, I was rooting for Keisha Castle-Hughes on Oscar night.

Then again, Pirates.... hmmm. :D

go on then

[wurlitzer.livejournal.com]

I've just joined writer_girls. Had been contemplating it for a while but was too much of a wimp! So you now have one more writer on board. Good pimping!

Re: go on then

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yay! What do you write? (Prose/poetry/nonfic, any particular genre, etc?)

Re: go on then

[wurlitzer.livejournal.com]

I don't really do poetry but at the moment I'm working on a few projects - some fanfic (because I can always write this even if I'm totally stuck with everything else), a novel with fantastical/mythological aspects and there's usually some (humourous, I hope!) nonfic on the go as well.

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