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| You guys I'm going like this right now
First draft done! Let's see what the stats are!
Well crap.
Now I'm like this.
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| This is a petition you might want to sign.
This is for the 11-year-old German girl who has been taken from the care of her mother simply because her mom supported her gender expression. (She's trans, and was assigned male at birth.) She is being transferred to the care of her father who intends to institutionalize her and not allow her to live outside the institution unless she "accepts" that she is a boy and starts dressing/acting/thinking like one. I heard about this story a while back but I didn't know the mother had lost the appeal. I'm so disgusted and horrified to hear about this happening to this poor girl. I can't imagine what she will be going through if they get their way. I also don't know if this petition can help but it is very close to the signature goal, so . . . please help her and boost this around. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| Thanks to everyone who gave me opinions on my request for book-slogan feedback the other day.
I was asking for your opinions because some literary agents on Twitter were letting us "pitch" books as long as the pitch was short enough to fit in a tweet. That went on today.
I'm still kind of going WTF.
I found out I didn't actually have to pick just one . . . so I tried several of them, hoping one would be intriguing enough to get an agent's attention.
Good news: It worked. An agent expressed interest and asked me to send her a partial manuscript.
Bad news: The line that worked? Was the one NONE OF YOU FREAKS PICKED.
Conclusion: YOU ALL SUCK AT THIS AND YOU SHOULD NEVER BE LITERARY AGENTS.
Just kidding. Thanks anyway. I have no idea why she liked what she liked about it.
The winning pitch was #5: Can't a gal and her other self have a good old-fashioned reality-crossing romance anymore?
Mulligan hasn't had a partial request in years--because I haven't been shopping it--so this is a welcome surprise. It may go nowhere, but a foot in the door is always nice.
ETA: It's a 50-page partial request. Yay. | | comments: 6 comments or Leave a comment |
| For reasons I do not want to elaborate on in public, I have to think of an attention-getting phrase, concept, or line that describes one of my novels. Like you'd see on the front cover of a book to get you interested in picking it up. Like these, sorta:
If you can't see them, this is what they say:
1. A girl. A car. A trip. A revelation...
2. Why be the sheep when you can be the wolf?
3. Stop the countdown. Save the world.
I have to think of something SORT OF like this for my book Finding Mulligan, and while it is allowed to be a little longer than those and is supposed to have slightly more meat, I don't want more than one or two sentences.
My request to you guys:
Tell me which of these phrases would make you most likely to pick it up. I'm allowed to stretch the truth a little, frame certain elements differently, be sneaky with the sensationalistic language. So long as it's something that gives an interesting gist or attracts attention.
Here are my examples so far.
- If your two personalities are in love with different guys, does that count as two-timing?
- Falling in love with the guy of your dreams? Awesome. Finding out he lives in your head? Not so awesome.
- Dream guys are the best. Until you wake up. [I don't like this one because it's too vague.]
- The world's strangest love triangle begins when Cassie's other self meddles in her romantic life. And then it starts to get weird.
- Can't a gal and her other self have a good old-fashioned reality-crossing romance anymore?
- Love triangle, shmuv triangle. With three guys in two universes chasing one girl with two personalities, this is at LEAST a love pentagon.
- Cassie's other personality shares her life, her dreams, and all her memories. You'd think she'd be willing to share her boyfriend too, but noooo.
I really like some of these and some of them I'm lukewarm on. I want to know your thoughts and suggestions, though. If you've read Finding Mulligan and you want to give me a suggestion or just tell me which problem, conflict, aspect, or element of the story you'd want to see in a mini-blurb like this, go for it. If you've not read the book--which is probably most of you--you can ask me questions or just pick from the provided examples. Yay! | | comments: 39 comments or Leave a comment |
| Figured I'd cross-post here from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif?v=92.2) asexuality.
Guys--in case you care and in case it hasn't come to your attention, I recently started a Tumblr which has an asexual theme.
Everyday Ignorance
I intended to mainly use it to toss around silly comments people make at me during my asexuality awareness quests. You know, ignorant YouTube comments and whatnot. Both as a way to blow off steam and a way to show people that a) we get these kinds of comments and b) this is how I counter them. So some people don't much like reading it since it's full of, you know, crappy ace hate. (Well, crappy ace hate being put in its place.)
Anyway, people warned me for a long time about how much wank there is on Tumblr. And I figured, hey, whatever. I can deal with it. BUT. Lordy. It really is pretty terrible. So, even though I kinda told myself I didn't want to get involved with the slap-fights, I found myself succumbing to the urge to rant today. I did so in this post which may interest some of you:
On the Inside
This is a rant about how people from outside the asexual community keep hating on graysexuals and demisexuals, claiming that their experience is actually quite normative and doesn't deserve a name, an acknowledgment, or any discussion. Because, you know, looking at it from the outside and dismissing it with a bunch of bratty talk is in no way something normatively sexual people do to us all the time. The rant makes the case for why both the labels and the discussion are necessary, and why people who can't see the difference between our experience and a normatively sexual person's experience don't have the right to define it.
Read it, reblog, follow, comment, whatever. Or don't. But I thought some of you might like to read it. ;) | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| BTW . . . started a Tumblr last night.
Everyday Ignorance
It's just an asexuality Tumblog that I'm going to be sharing asexuality-themed ignorant quotes on. Mostly YouTube comments and OKCupid crap . . . stuff most of you have already seen on Asshole of the Day and whatnot (though of course I will also add new stuff). It's only stuff that's been submitted on MY content--it's not harvesting quotes from around the awareness community.
I'm not thrilled with Tumblr's format but I figured it works for the content I'm sharing.
I started it less than 24 hours ago and I already have over 50 followers, which makes me feel popular.
You can follow me if you like. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
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