Moving Finger yada yada
Mar. 19th, 2009 04:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
erastes
I am very much indebted to Chris Smith for introducing me to Etherpad, I know the thought of writing in public scares most of you shitless, and it did me, at first but now I’m enjoying it. I don’t invite everyone in like I did that first time, just a few people, the same people who are reading the book as I finish the chapters, but it’s good to get instant feedback – and there’s a couple of extra eyes to spot inconsistencies and stuff like “Jude reached for his sneakers.”
Only kidding, he wouldn’t be seen dead in anything less than Victorian Nike.
I’m getting a routine too, slowly. (about time, after a year not working, eh?) I write from 12ish to 1 and Chris waves the pom poms and the whip of procrastination, then she writes in her lunch break and I throw peanuts from the gallery.
The thing is, I was chatting to Sleveen earlier and telling her how much it has helped me, because if there’s someone watching I have to write, and not goof off and go and do something else. Then I said “It probably is something in my nature – it’s a famous family legend that I refused to walk as a child, and then my parents discovered that I would only walk when people applauded.”
I think that says everything about me that you need to know.
And – oh good grief isn’t Race Wank over YET?. Who the heck made you the Race Fairy?
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2009-03-19 04:37 pm (UTC)Mwah.
Race-fairy. Just... *throws a handful of xanax at the race-fairy and runs away*
no subject
Date: 2009-03-19 04:51 pm (UTC)I think Ms. Giggles said it best [not sure if she was talking about Ms Somerville or not, so I wont she was--]
"...really, some of us have better things to do than to validate your sense of importance."
The best entry on the Race discussions, sans immature axe-grinding, is here:
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/03/12/mary-ann-mohanraj-gets-you-up-to-speed-part-i/
no subject
Date: 2009-03-19 04:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-19 05:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-19 05:13 pm (UTC)It's worth reading - as for discussion - I too have avoided all of it because of people like Shetterly and his friends, and Coffee and Ink. With all due respect, even I knew her real name by googling it ages ago when she criticized 'Yaoi Fan girls aren't even fans of Yaoi' because I wanted to know who she was and why she sounded like a elitist ass. I had no altercation with her because a translated article from ComiPress ended up validating the portion of my entry that she disagreed with, [vindication is nice, but not worth wanking over]. I knew her name was out there-- only recently though did she claim a demand for privacy, of which Shetterly violated, and sparked the drama upon which Sommerville is milking for attention. :/ This is the sort of baggage that's defining what is otherwise a very good discussion about race.
no subject
Date: 2009-03-19 05:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-19 05:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-19 05:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-19 05:01 pm (UTC)As far as the online posting of work for feedback, are you at all concerned that these pieces will be at risk for being seen as published by possible presses? I’m wondering since their instant feedback sounds like a great thing, but I’m unsure how their group you mention works.
no subject
Date: 2009-03-19 05:05 pm (UTC)As to etherpad - nothing's published on line. It's simply a private chat room, not a group of any kind.
no subject
Date: 2009-03-19 05:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-19 05:20 pm (UTC)What I would love to see in that hairtangle is for someone to clearly define what it is they expect from writers who are not people of color. Whirling around in an angry muddle may be useful for venting, but I don't see where it's going to do any actual good.
And the thing is -- the people who are most likely to offend are off on their own LJs justifying their actions, and a great many of us who try to be conscientious about writing any "other" are not going to get into the self-abnegation and drama of the whole thing. If I judge people, it's by who they are and what I see them do, not where they came from or what color their skin is. I'll admit to being wary of some cultures, like the Muslims in the Middle East, because I'm a woman and I am not keen on cultures that consider my gender in terms of breeding potential. But then, I'm not keen on fundamentalist Christianists for the same reason.
Sigh.
no subject
Date: 2009-03-19 08:09 pm (UTC)Fleury is likely to encounter slaves in america. Am I looking forward to writing that. No, brother.
no subject
Date: 2009-03-20 03:29 am (UTC)I have the sense that a lot of people take what they're given as schoolhouse history and really don't know how they got here. They just buy lots of clothes with skull prints on them and wear too much kohl. *eyeroll*
that's a very bourgie way of thinking. (here from rydra)
Date: 2009-03-31 01:22 am (UTC)i been seeing a lot of that, er, middle-class mentality among people who claim racefail is 'too wide-ranging' or 'too sprawling', etc.
it's interesting...and telling.
no subject
Date: 2009-03-19 05:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-19 08:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-19 08:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-19 08:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-19 08:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-19 09:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-19 09:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-19 09:52 pm (UTC)*watches Kitty wander off uninterested*
no subject
Date: 2009-03-19 09:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-19 09:52 pm (UTC)