OK i'll bite
post 888! don't get much luckier than that...now we need to find member #888 
yeah i got greedy with posting pix, staying up late fightin' the CMS...doggone thing kept DELETING the photos it was already displaying, dunno what was going on. i got the main story on there but...i was telling a STORY, y'know, stories have arcs. they find their own curve sometimes.
in his book ON WRITING, ex-English teacher Stephen King describes a story as a pre-existing fossil. i LOVE this analogy--he says that yr job as a writer is to excavate the story. u gotta be very careful to use the right tools (he's specific about these tools, as they are language, and that's what he works with) on the right parts of the fossil. this is high-level stuff: he's telling u that yr story is ALREADY written, and now u have to get to WORK to get to it.
so with tonight's Betty/Lola piece, i had some cowboy come in with a pickaxe and break a few ribs off my fossil. if I'M the one wielding the pickaxe, OK, that's one thing. but as i spend all day fighting against technology, it's damn annoying to have it shove its ravenous snout into my memories and snap off the story's arc.
yeah well more B&L will surface, they will not be denied. u wanna know why? check out this OUTTAKE from the foto session...
JtB | |
