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534. PelleNilsson - 4/18/2006 8:15:08 PM Enough. You have a project in mind? 535. arkymalarky - 4/18/2006 8:32:15 PM Why did I immediately get an image in my mind of two boys and a box of matches? 536. PelleNilsson - 4/18/2006 8:36:04 PM Hahaha! 537. uzmakk - 4/18/2006 8:49:05 PM Yes, a big one. Wheels turning on wheels. 538. PelleNilsson - 4/18/2006 8:57:14 PM A Ptolemaic system, then? Epicyles and all that? 539. uzmakk - 4/18/2006 9:05:37 PM No much humbler. Much simpler. Back to work; gotta getta package off today. I shall return. 540. Jenerator - 4/18/2006 11:00:12 PM Uzzie,
You're asking me why I would compliment Webbie? It's because I think she's gifted and I really want to read her stuff.
541. prolph - 4/19/2006 8:19:43 AM no reason not to faun 0n webfeet but not in this thread, 542. webfeet - 4/20/2006 10:47:08 PM You know, someone will have to crochet that one and hang it above the marquee: No fauning allowed.
Perhaps uzmak? Once he gets his muttonhead shishkabob out of his teeth.
543. alistairConnor - 4/20/2006 11:09:08 PM All very satyrical. 544. uzmakk - 4/20/2006 11:42:07 PM The spelling on this thread is absolutely fabulous. The wit too. Really really really really good. 545. webfeet - 4/20/2006 11:45:42 PM I thought it was more of a metaphor.
Jen, I didn't interpret that as fauning, but encouragement.
Have no fear, I'm not trying to ghostwrite the next Shopaholic in Paris novel. What I meant by marketability is that I have corseted some of the loose and freewheeling dialogue to give it more shape, moving the story forward to conform to a novelistic structure.
There is still adultery and plenty of bad behavior. Only most of it takes place in a children's world. And perhaps some of the characters are recognizable, stock figures of these books: the bohunk owner of a Vitamin Shop who is a secret object of lust for the Flowerpatch moms, the Flowerpatch school serving as a kind of fictional preschool in which I can satirize the worst of icky maternalism and competitive parenting. The treasonous best friend, in this case, she is french and her name is Gabrielle.
The climax of the novel takes place at a quack sleep institute/luxury spa run by a fraudulent doctor where the protagonist goes to be treated for a sleeping disorder. There, a lot of things go on from the loopy, comic and whimsical to a kind of self-acualization process that has nothing to do (or perhaps everything) with the bogus methods of therapy prescribed.
This part has been the most challenging to write as none of the characters are based on anyone I know (or despise)
A friend of mine who is an editor said, "I hope it's not just another mommy blog." And I hope not, too. 546. webfeet - 4/20/2006 11:48:45 PM Uzamk, for the last time, you have lamb in your teeth. 547. uzmakk - 4/20/2006 11:49:14 PM Faun away! 548. uzmakk - 4/20/2006 11:55:04 PM Actually, Webbie, I am also here for some kind of encouragement or inspiration, but I intend to take it in the form of head slaps. 549. Jenerator - 4/21/2006 4:16:03 AM Webbie,
Did you ever read The Nanny Diaries? 550. webfeet - 4/24/2006 10:59:25 PM uzmak, come, come, I am encouraging. In fact, I have a track record of encouragement. And I am not here hiding out behind my shrub, waiting to shoot pellets at anyone's contributions from my bb gun. Oh, maybe just a little! What's the point, if not to have fun?
551. webfeet - 4/24/2006 11:03:43 PM Jen,
It's rather hard for me to admit this. But I did, sort of, covertly at Barnes and Noble for as long as my children would let me. I think I muffled their protests with the delightful, ersatz madeleines they peddle at the juste a cote- starbucks. That gave me a full ten minutes.
They were handed an enormous amount of terrific material and they took every advantage of it. That's all I have to say on them.
552. Jenerator - 4/24/2006 11:12:06 PM I am imppressed that you got ten minutes! You have mommy skills!
Are blogs being put into books often these days? (I am so out of the loop). I read Julie Powell's Julie & Julia which was based on her blog -- she decided to cook Julia Child's prolific and monumental Mastering the Art of Freench Cooking in a year and posted her aches and pains along the way. But that's the only other one I know.
As for Vitamin Shop, I think your story line sounds solid with enough humor and realism to make it an enjoyable read. 553. Jenerator - 4/24/2006 11:12:41 PM Freench?
Ha ha!
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