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Humor and a little writerly encouragement for my FList
Why yes...I'm having one of those days.
For yours and my amusement, some oldies but goodies:
The Lockheed Martin F-16 Warranty Registration Card never fails to make me laugh like hell.
No need-a-laugh day is complete without Star Trek (TOS) vs. The Roadrunner. This makes the Very Secret Diaries (LOTR) look weak by comparison.
Whenever I need encouragement as a writer, I always open up Writing Is Easy by Steve Martin, which is a very old essay he wrote for The New Yorker. It seems a couple of us on my FList have been stimied on the writing front lately. This? This will make you feel so much better.
[Interesting side note: When I was younger and stupider, I believed that everyone and anyone could write. It came so easy to me, that I didn't actually think it was a talent so much as a learned skill. I got into a fight with a fellow magazine writer over this very issue. A week later, I found a photocopy of this essay on my desk along with a sticky note that said: "You have talent. If you never believe that, then you'll never do better than you are today." The sticky note didn't convince me, but this essay did. It also made me a Steve Martin fan for life.]
I hope everyone's day is better than mine has been. It's been such a blah day all around....
For yours and my amusement, some oldies but goodies:
The Lockheed Martin F-16 Warranty Registration Card never fails to make me laugh like hell.
No need-a-laugh day is complete without Star Trek (TOS) vs. The Roadrunner. This makes the Very Secret Diaries (LOTR) look weak by comparison.
Whenever I need encouragement as a writer, I always open up Writing Is Easy by Steve Martin, which is a very old essay he wrote for The New Yorker. It seems a couple of us on my FList have been stimied on the writing front lately. This? This will make you feel so much better.
[Interesting side note: When I was younger and stupider, I believed that everyone and anyone could write. It came so easy to me, that I didn't actually think it was a talent so much as a learned skill. I got into a fight with a fellow magazine writer over this very issue. A week later, I found a photocopy of this essay on my desk along with a sticky note that said: "You have talent. If you never believe that, then you'll never do better than you are today." The sticky note didn't convince me, but this essay did. It also made me a Steve Martin fan for life.]
I hope everyone's day is better than mine has been. It's been such a blah day all around....
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(Really, really, really have to create filters for my FList because I keep missing stuff...)
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^_^
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Writing well is damnably hard. It's work. It takes skill and imagination and effort. Your writing impresses the hell out of me, and I read an awful lot, so that's not easy.
Hope your day gets less blah.
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Right now I'm feeling a dumkoff because Willow's not cooperating....
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Oh dear. Now she really doesn't want to cooperate. I'm sorry.
Willow! No more spankings until you play nice with Liz!
;-)
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I *told* that spanking Willow in that costume was a bad idea!
No one listens to me...*sniff*
Maybe if we bribe her with a DVD of Making Fiends...
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And so are you. Perhaps not as funny as Steve Martin (because really... who is?) but I can honestly say you are one of my favorite writers ever (fanfiction or otherwise). Your characters (yes, even the original ones... sometimes especially the original ones...) are full of depth and show not only an understanding of language and its many uses, but also an understanding of that which it has been the artist's job to describe: the human condition. There are times when I truly envy you.
Hope your days get better.
-Mark
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*blush* Thanks. I totally needed that compliment since Willow is being mean to me...
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It's not so much conflict or lack thereof. It's how do you make it interesting. Heh.
Maybe it was just the way it hit me at the time.
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On the surface, I don't think they can do anything if most "reasonable people" can't connect them to your post, but don't quote me on that. I think I know the post you're talking about (I checked your archive). You didn't use names or physically describe them and the distinguishing characteristics you gave are vague at best.
Also, I really don't see how any of that post was defamation (it was posted January 29, right?) and I think they might have a pretty hard time proving it.
What I'd do is tell them to go right ahead and try to sue you. Then wait and see what they do. If they get a lawyer, that means some shark out there thinks they have a slim case. Personally, I think a lawyer would be pretty stupid to do it...imagine...people "paying for what they say in their blogs" is a hot story right now. All you'd have to do is hit a newspaper columnist with your tale of woe and their names are all over the paper. I'm thinking a lawyer will advise them to back off.
If they get a lawyer, I'd worry then, but not before. That's just me.
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1. Tell them they have no evidence whatsoever that the post in question is about them. Or at least, nothing that would stand up in court.
2. Tell them to get over themselves.
3. Start singing "You're so vain, you probably think this post is about you..." while walking away.
4. Post, in a very vague and non-specific way, about asshats who think that calling them an asshat is legally actionable, when in fact the TRUTH is a defense against libel charges.
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Hope your day gets better, too.
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