One More Detour on the Writing Road

It's not exactly an uncommon last name...

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trolleypup.livejournal.com

Check to see if your non-LJ name is in use on LJ.

rparks: formerly available
robertparks: available

Alter ego:

amyg: taken

amygallagher: taken (by me)

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technomage.livejournal.com

Doubt they'll be there long. One post. Created in 2004 - I guess you could have squatted if you'd cared. How'd you notice, BTW?

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I friended a buddy who had just joined LJ, and saw that she had friended this person. Just followed the link.

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Yeah, I know. But the first isn't all that common, and the two together tend to get my attention.

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Yep, took another mutual friend to point me here. :-) What can I say? There's only *one* Kristine Smith in my universe. :-)

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As anyone will tell you, one is enough.

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One is bountious. :-)

Speaking of which, I'm still looking forward to the book I hope you write after the one you're working on.

[This Writer Nag brought to you by the good folks at Writerly Friends, "we nag while others sleep".]

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If I finish the one I'm working on, I will jump up and down.

The mentorly

alfreda89 read the synopsis in question, however, and pronounced it "lovely". Did me a world of good, because it is a change in genre, and you're never quite sure if change is a good idea.

I hope someone buys it.

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Oh, btw...

...*nagnagnag*

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alfreda89 is obviously a person of taste and discernment. Change keeps us fresh.

They will. Believe me, they'll buy it.

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Give the woman an inch...

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...she'll take Manhattan. The Bronx and Staten Island, too...

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...it's lovely going through the zoo.

HA! You *challenge* ME???? According to my child I know every song ever written (but she's 10, what does she know). On the other hand, I have a browser and I'm not afraid to use it.

Ugh... day job.

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I don't want to work!
I want to strum the guitar all day!

And maybe write a little. Put those shelves up in the garage. Put together the dinette hutch that's been sitting in its box since I bought it in February...

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Me, too!!!!

I wanna sleep all day and read all night. Except when I'm writing all night.

I wanna learn to play the piano.

I wanna make my own pasta.

I wanna pack a bag, hop in the car and pick a direction. Stop when I'm tired and pick a direction in the morning.

I wanna prowl through used furniture stores and refinish whatever I find that I fall in love with (furniture, not men - they don't varnish well :-).

I wanna spend *weeks* going through entire television shows I didn't discover until they went off the air.

I wanna have a garden that I can play with and ignore if I get bored with it.

I wanna win the lottery so I can afford to do all this and whatever else comes to mind.

*sigh*

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Hey, it's Julia! (Dave Klecha, here.)

I love making my own pasta...

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What's funny is that, in speaking, I often have to distinguish between all the Kristine, Christine, and Christina types that I know, or

tappu gets confused.

I think you're the only one I know to spell it with a K, but I could easily be wrong.

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Figured that was you. :-)

I've done it a few times, but that was before my life got soooo... complicated. :-)

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I can dig it. Haven't had much time myself over the past almost-nine-months now. ;)

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Here's hoping you get to come home soon.

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Should be in the US in a coupla days.

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