Posted by Racer on September 4, 2006, at 0:32:17
In reply to Good advice » Racer, posted by Poet on September 4, 2006, at 0:04:30
> Hi Racer,
>
> Dinah is pretty darn smart. So are you.
>
> I can try writing what career success would bring me, but it won't be easy. Because I know it would bring me happiness and nothing else will. Go ahead, hit me.
>
> PoetS'OK, when I read your first sentence, my first thought was, "fat lot of good *that* does me..." Guess we flock together, huh?
Listen, here's a deal for you:
You're funny as [torrid climate], and I've been saying for ages that my nightmare would be exorcised if I could make it into a novel. Why don't we egg each other on and write those dang things? You can write a screenplay, or a fully volume of poetry, or a novel, or a 250 page grocery list, for that matter! I'll write what happened to me, and call my heroine something we'd both like -- we could work that out.
It might not improve anything for either of us, and I still might wake up at 4AM shaking and crying, and you still might work for a company with "F" in its name -- but it would give us some focus, and a reason for weekly updates, right?
Besides, we might become rich and famous -- and have to retire our crowns, step down from our rightful places in the pantheon of losers...
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