evil ink-guzzling printer and writing
Sep. 11th, 2003 10:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaylarudbekI am working on my clerkship cover letter, and of course my printer has to run out of ink, after the stores all close. Grrrr. And of course the Internal Critic is running her mouth, telling me, "you're just like your father, always doing things at the last minute, you'll never get this done or in on time, you'll never get a clerkship, why don't you just give up now...."
GRRR!!! Shaddup already, Critic! I need Admiral Bob's laser to shoot her through the breastbone, and put her out of her misery for good...(insert scene of an angry woman shooting a humanoid crab as large as she is, with a high-pitched, soft whiny, irritating voice, with a laser. A powerful laser. I wish I could draw so that I could draw these things out.)
So my friend from college calmed down, after I told him:
1) I'm glad that I can write a flawed character, who's not a Mary-Sue;
2) Go check out FA and ff.net, as well as witchfics.org, restrictedsection.org, and adultfanfiction.net, and see what other people are writing. My stuff is quite tame in comparison.
3) Writing romance novels might help pay off the loans from undergrad...
He replied:
1) ok, if you're trying to write a flawed character, I can live with her having a crush on Snape when she was 11 and he was 17, being annoyingly passive-aggressive, etc.;
2) proposed all sorts of weird scenarios, some of which I haven't seen before;
3) said that maybe he could write his own fan book.
He's the only person who's ever said that Emmy Vector is annoyingly passive-aggressive. Maybe other people find her to be so as well, and no one's told me that yet.
Sigh. And I'm thinking now that I post too much, that I should try to cut myself down to just one LJ post/day, but then it seems that I always have something else to say. As the Old Man said when I showed him a catalog advertising a lawyer squeeze doll once, "They have the thing set up all backwards. Instead of 'squeeze the lawyer to get him to talk,' it should work as 'squeeze the lawyer to get him to stop talking.'"
I found about 40+ potential sources for the Comment Topic today. I sent the advisors an email telling them this, and that I'd started to try to separate out things a bit and still finding materials, but nothing exactly duplicating what I want to write about, and one advisor replied, "Sounds like you're making good progress."
GRRR!!! Shaddup already, Critic! I need Admiral Bob's laser to shoot her through the breastbone, and put her out of her misery for good...(insert scene of an angry woman shooting a humanoid crab as large as she is, with a high-pitched, soft whiny, irritating voice, with a laser. A powerful laser. I wish I could draw so that I could draw these things out.)
So my friend from college calmed down, after I told him:
1) I'm glad that I can write a flawed character, who's not a Mary-Sue;
2) Go check out FA and ff.net, as well as witchfics.org, restrictedsection.org, and adultfanfiction.net, and see what other people are writing. My stuff is quite tame in comparison.
3) Writing romance novels might help pay off the loans from undergrad...
He replied:
1) ok, if you're trying to write a flawed character, I can live with her having a crush on Snape when she was 11 and he was 17, being annoyingly passive-aggressive, etc.;
2) proposed all sorts of weird scenarios, some of which I haven't seen before;
3) said that maybe he could write his own fan book.
He's the only person who's ever said that Emmy Vector is annoyingly passive-aggressive. Maybe other people find her to be so as well, and no one's told me that yet.
Sigh. And I'm thinking now that I post too much, that I should try to cut myself down to just one LJ post/day, but then it seems that I always have something else to say. As the Old Man said when I showed him a catalog advertising a lawyer squeeze doll once, "They have the thing set up all backwards. Instead of 'squeeze the lawyer to get him to talk,' it should work as 'squeeze the lawyer to get him to stop talking.'"
I found about 40+ potential sources for the Comment Topic today. I sent the advisors an email telling them this, and that I'd started to try to separate out things a bit and still finding materials, but nothing exactly duplicating what I want to write about, and one advisor replied, "Sounds like you're making good progress."
