Month: June 2007

It’s quick…but oh so good!

Crystal Jordan here serving as secretary for THE Lillian Feisty, as she is too busy to type because she’s being a good little woman and cooking me dinner. And if you don’t know what I mean by Secretary, you should really see the movie.

We’re chatting about what it’s like for writer friends who you know online to show up and invade your house. I would be the invading horde here. (Also, I’m watching Mr. Manroot make dirty Secretary comments to her since she read the first paragraph out loud over my shoulder while making pasta) :trolls: Any second now, she’s going to assume the position and then I’ll have a real show. Can’t wait for them to bust out the saddle and the strap-on. :boob:

Back to invading hordes. :badgirl:

The thing with writer friends is that we’re spread to hell and gone. Every state and country has writers we can be friends with, some of them we never have the chance to meet in real life. We all try to get together for conferences every year, but finances and distance keep some away.

What keeps us together are telephones and the internet. We have IMing (Feisty said LOL out loud since I’ve been here–I mocked the shit out of her, of course) and email to exchange ideas and critiquing.

In our real, face to face interactions, we don’t have anyone to relate the writing lifestyle or to talk to about our writer friends. Who would you tell that Karen had an awesome-ass new story idea, or Eden told a funny inside joke? Thus ensues the madness of having a writer friend show up. You have someone to talk to, and you find out shit that you never knew. (The title of this post is an example–Feisty screamed “I never knew you liked country” when we were making music selections. Who doesn’t like cuntry, crazy ass? *spelling approved by Mr. Manroot himself*)

*This message has been read and approved by Lillian Feisty :hitit: *

I’m boring today – and brain dead. I’m on a mini vacation with my family and we walked all over the Monterey Bay Aquarium yesterday. Then I was kept up half the night by squawking seagulls. I’m not kidding. I love the coast but come on! That’s a little too authentic for my taste.

So anywho we’re gonna go the beach today and do whatever else. Run around chasing after maniac children perhaps? I’ve been people watching like crazy – there are some freaks that hang out here in downtown Monterey! It’s been very interesting.

I’m sorry for the boring post. My brain is too fried and tired to think up something interesting…

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You know over here at NAS, we tend to be irreverant, silly, naughty….and we like it that way, but we do all have a serious side (and NO this isn’t about old women pumping gas…sorta). Anyway, I was over at Karen’s the other day, lurking as usual when I stumbled on Skyla Dawn’s new project to benefit Equality Now, an organization that works for women’s rights all over the world (and no I’m not blogging about this to win a prize. I do have a point. It’ll just take me a bit to get there. I’m saying this because I think it’s important to say and as a writer, I’m in a place to say it).

We all know the atrocities committed against women all over the world, and I think oftentimes we find ourselves thinking, “It’s too much. There’s nothing I can do to help”. It’s almost overwhelming to think that a woman could be kidnapped and sold as a sex slave, killed for showing her face or walking down the street with the wrong man, but it happens. Hell even here in the United States women are killed trying to leave abusive relationships.

Guess what? There IS something you can do to help.

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