March Is Question Month
Mar. 10th, 2011 05:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mallorys_cameraMarch is Question Month, as ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
anais_pf reminds us.
So go ahead: Ask me a question.
I'll answer anything -- even questions from anonymous readers of whom there are a few or so recent experience suggests. And I'll answer them truthfully.
anais_pf reminds us. So go ahead: Ask me a question.
I'll answer anything -- even questions from anonymous readers of whom there are a few or so recent experience suggests. And I'll answer them truthfully.
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Date: 2011-03-11 03:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-11 03:15 pm (UTC)My fantasy of fantasies is that one of these years, I will actually succeed in snagging a Stegner Fellowship to Stanford. I would so love to spend two years surrounded by writers, eating, drinking, breathing fiction.
Serious plan? Well, I've been faithfully applying to the Stegner people every year for a decade but no, I'd have to say it isn't a serious plan because it's such a long shot.
Robin wants to hightail it back to California as soon as he graduates from high school. He really wants to go to college at UC Santa Cruz. My oldest son Max -- whom I miss so much I sometimes feel as though my heart might break from missing him -- lives in San Francisco. And most of my really close friends live in Oakland and Berkeley, the East Bay, across the water from San Francisco. It's most likely that I'll return there.
Are we allowed more than 1 question?
Date: 2011-03-11 05:15 pm (UTC)I know my ex wasn't selected for a lot of fellowships for medical stuff because he was "too old" while we were still in our 30s (!!!), which I think totally rots, he'd have been a much better selection than some 25 year old boy for the majority of the positions, because he already had so much practical experience, which, in a scientific field, you'd think would be a plus. But I guess that wasn't something they were looking for so much as someone they could really effect, which I think also rots.
Re: Are we allowed more than 1 question?
Date: 2011-03-11 06:02 pm (UTC)Do you read The New Yorker? I've always modeled my submission stories after New Yorker magazine stories -- probably a mistake because it's not my natural voice. I use language more extravagantly than the typical New Yorker story and I also tend to have more of a narrative thrust. I kind of trade off -- one year I'll send them stories in my natural writing voice and the next year I'll send them faux New Yorker. :-)
Re: Are we allowed more than 1 question?
Date: 2011-03-11 10:46 pm (UTC)Re: Are we allowed more than 1 question?
Date: 2011-03-12 12:56 pm (UTC)Re: Are we allowed more than 1 question?
Date: 2011-03-12 02:58 pm (UTC)Seriously, I've been fired by friends. Over shit like contractions and stuff.
I'll tell you the truth. For example: my husband and I are all crosswise right now because I'm totally dogging his new store's recipes, BECAUSE THEY ARE CRAP, and over priced. He's acting hurt, and I'm just like, DUDE, FIX IT and it'll be fine! And he's being a sensitive artist about it all, which annoys the hell out of me, so it makes me even more ruthless and mean, which makes him even more withdrawn. But I'm right about this and if *someone* doesn't tell them, a real rational review will come along and the place will be totally screwed and I refuse to stand idly by and watch some foreigner be the voice of reason when all someone had to tell them was, TAKE OUT THE BAD PARTS AND FIX IT!
So, see?
I'm so lonely for adult conversation. I really don't know how I stayed home for 10 years with toddlers.
Re: Are we allowed more than 1 question?
Date: 2011-03-12 03:48 pm (UTC)