New Story - Bag Lady

[WearMeWell]

*desisting...

*sets out a tray of teas and coffees(decantors in the back) with various 'spiking agents" located on an adjacent tray....

*grabs a mug of tea and a bottle of "spiking agent" and goes to the big comfy chair at the back..."I'll be over here if anyone needs me for anything" *motions with the bottle gripping hand...

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Begs all to desist--- and offers grateful smiles, frowning brows and wry shrugs of the shoulders and slide back into my sick bed. As I sway from the medications the leeches insist will make me better, I ask nothing if not understanding and just a wee bit of indulgence that I am allowed to vent...

Yes- a lesson learned. And I did state why I dug it up again... Being neither here nor there now -

Co authoring is a tricky business. And fraught with its own special difficulties.

Hmmmmm maybe there should be a how to on "Co authoring...."

I cant write it - I cant learn a thing from instruction manual. I have to SEE it and HEAR it - then maybe sometimes I can look at it and go Aha thats what they didnt say in english

You've got a point about co-authoring, it is a difficult thing to get right and needs a partnership of total trust, respect and, hopefully, friendship. If the first thing you have to agree are the rules, this isn't going to be a marriage made in heaven. Empathy makes the world go round.

Until you said, I hadn't known you had spent a long time in a wheelchair. That just reinforces my point. This is a very important subject and with your writing ability, you could put something out that is really worth reading.

Forget the past and the bile - give it a go. If nothing else it will be a catharsis for you.

 

[sr71plt]

* The gentleman,(that would be you) in possessing the infamously intoned "more logical mind" of his gender, should be able to be above contrivances, or 'baited banter.'-- and most certainly above making a nuisance of himself. Being a gentleman, he should also understand that when a Lady has said stop, he stops.

I think where this connects with this thread is in the realm we call sexual tease here: "Yes, I'm wearing a tight sweater with no bra and cleavage dipping down to my navel; but you're a letch for looking."

 

[WearMeWell]

I think where this connects with this thread is in the realm we call sexual tease here: "Yes, I'm wearing a tight sweater with no bra and cleavage dipping down to my navel; but you're a letch for looking."

omgLMAOOOOOOOO!

*sobers suddenly...*shimmies*...*goes back to laughing

*Touche'...*oh that was very well done...thank you, i needed that laugh today...
*Deep curtsey would now be the time to issue a "cleavage alert?" *lol

(and just so you know, i had wondered if i had assumed much in applying the more "ennobling" tendencies of your gender thusly...*now i know...*heh

 

[MarshAlien]

You've got a point about co-authoring, it is a difficult thing to get right and needs a partnership of total trust, respect and, hopefully, friendship. If the first thing you have to agree are the rules, this isn't going to be a marriage made in heaven. Empathy makes the world go round.

Until you said, I hadn't known you had spent a long time in a wheelchair. That just reinforces my point. This is a very important subject and with your writing ability, you could put something out that is really worth reading.

Forget the past and the bile - give it a go. If nothing else it will be a catharsis for you.

Co-authoring is indeed a tricky business, although it can produce an excellent product. IMHO, anyway. I still think that rules are important, though, and one of the best that we have adopted (I think TK got it from someone else, although I'm not at liberty to say who) is that each author owns 100 percent of the story. That is, despite sounding like something Zero Mostel came up with, each of us has to agree with putting the whole story out there, not just the 50 percent that he/she wrote. There will always be compromises, sure, but each author has to be able to draw his or her own lines on what is acceptable.

 

[starrkers]

Co-authoring is indeed a tricky business, although it can produce an excellent product. IMHO, anyway. I still think that rules are important, though, and one of the best that we have adopted (I think TK got it from someone else, although I'm not at liberty to say who) is that each author owns 100 percent of the story. That is, despite sounding like something Zero Mostel came up with, each of us has to agree with putting the whole story out there, not just the 50 percent that he/she wrote. There will always be compromises, sure, but each author has to be able to draw his or her own lines on what is acceptable.

Yep. 100% ownership of the published product - the really good bits, the so-so bits and the steaming heaps of rat droppings.
And any dirty linen over it should be kept in private.

 

[tickledkitty]

Co-authoring is indeed a tricky business, although it can produce an excellent product. IMHO, anyway. I still think that rules are important, though, and one of the best that we have adopted (I think TK got it from someone else, although I'm not at liberty to say who) is that each author owns 100 percent of the story. That is, despite sounding like something Zero Mostel came up with, each of us has to agree with putting the whole story out there, not just the 50 percent that he/she wrote. There will always be compromises, sure, but each author has to be able to draw his or her own lines on what is acceptable.

Heh. Smug bastard.

In addition to what he said, I learned that complete honesty is essential. This can be difficult when you absolutely adore your partner. (At least it is for me.)