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Post by Suzy on Apr 19, 2014 13:56:19 GMT -5
Love that! Caddy, how can you possibly not have been to France? It seems like your spiritual home. I'm going there next week. To the south of France, a trip that was my Valentines' day gift from my husband. Ohhhhh! I'm so jealous. I doubt I'll get there in this lifetime, as we have very little money anymore. It makes me very sad to know I'll never visit. It hurts in my gut. However, to answer your question: I don't mean to go all spiritual or anything, but I believe my last life was there. I do remember it (as I have been to someone who works in this several times). So, in a way, perhaps you are right that it helps to have been somewhere to write or paint about it. Does a previous life count?  I've informed Dave that next time we are going back to Paris (he's been with me a very long time). I also warned him I am going to be a man (as I prefer that, although this life I was always the perfume, lingerie, make-up type. I'm not butch.). So, I told him if he wants to be my love interest he either has to be female or gay. Period. Not negotiable. I miss my bite! (and if you know French, you know what that is) Mais oui, mon chou! I am trilingual. French-English-Swedish I grew up speaking French and Swedish. English happened at about the age of 12. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2014 15:20:08 GMT -5
Most of the French I know is sexual or cursing. I can curse quite well in French after writing Gastien.
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Post by vrabinec on Apr 19, 2014 18:38:00 GMT -5
Endings are hard... a little bit confusing. There are no ends! Things keep happening after you finish writing, you just aren't documenting it anymore! I've mostly done short stories until fairly recently. I finished one novel a few years ago that will never see print for a number of reasons (foremost being I would have to include a family tree and creating one is highly impractical) and I believe I ended it with a note from one of the characters requesting the book be kept safe in case his enemies find it. The one I'm editing right now... I don't really like the last line but my mother (I mostly wrote the book to get her to stop pestering me about writing something for her to read LOL) loves it so I'm keeping it. I'm not too fond of sappy happy endings, though. Life wasn't perfect – it never would be and I knew that... but it was a lot better than it used to be and at the moment forever just seemed too short to contain my happiness. Well, I agree with your mother. Your voice has a very familiar ring to it. Do you post over on KB? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2014 18:50:30 GMT -5
Nope. This is the first writer-based anything I've really been involved with. Posted a few things to DeviantArt to placate a friend but the only real response was a few people bookmarking things for eventual reads. I didn't take any of this seriously until I had half a dozen people yelling at me to finish the next chapter (until it became 'NEXT BOOK, DAMMIT!') and insisting I publish one way or another. I'm still debating whether they are just being nice or I've gotten good enough for it to be worth putting my work out there.
I'm considering the CritiqueCircle thing that was pointed out... but... that requires taking time away from editing and writing... I'd rather spend my little bits of down time here!
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