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Jul. 27th, 2007 11:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatI don't know why this is but some inexplicable reason I can't write today. Had to do a free hand writing sample for an interview and my words just got stuck. They would not come.
Did it again tonight with an lj entry. Did not any sense when I read it again.
Does this happen to you? The words just get stuck somehow. They won't come out.
Perhaps I'm tired?
Oh...has anyone heard of Allyson Beatrice? Or Buffistas? (The board group she moderated and ran?)
She apparently wrote a book entitled, I kid you not, Will the Vampire People Please Leave the Lobby: Adventures in Cult Fandom
And yes, if you guessed it was about Buffy fans, you guessed right.
Sigh. She beat me to it. Although from reading the excerpts in Entertainment Weekly, she's had far more bizarre experiences and done far crazier things than I have. So, I doubt I'd have gotten published. Plus Tim Minear encouraged her to write it. Can't beat that.
I'm not a fan. I just flirted at being a fan. A fan is someone whostalks follows (and I mean literally not just watching them on tv or reading stuff on the net) actors, writers, creators of the series about. And writes them. Emails them. That is a fan.
Me? I just happened to be a little obsessed by the show.
Did it again tonight with an lj entry. Did not any sense when I read it again.
Does this happen to you? The words just get stuck somehow. They won't come out.
Perhaps I'm tired?
Oh...has anyone heard of Allyson Beatrice? Or Buffistas? (The board group she moderated and ran?)
She apparently wrote a book entitled, I kid you not, Will the Vampire People Please Leave the Lobby: Adventures in Cult Fandom
And yes, if you guessed it was about Buffy fans, you guessed right.
Sigh. She beat me to it. Although from reading the excerpts in Entertainment Weekly, she's had far more bizarre experiences and done far crazier things than I have. So, I doubt I'd have gotten published. Plus Tim Minear encouraged her to write it. Can't beat that.
I'm not a fan. I just flirted at being a fan. A fan is someone who
Me? I just happened to be a little obsessed by the show.
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Date: 2007-07-28 01:18 pm (UTC)I had been to a Wizard World comic book convention in Chicago and it was chaotic w/horrible long lines 2 hours or more long, and they maxed out at 20,000 people attending. THIS convention is 120,000 people (!) and it is much more organized and the crowds are not as over-whelming (I have a bit of a crowd phobia).
Last night when I responded here I was all in the flush of having enjoyed listening to Gaiman, who has a theory that 'writers' block' is a grandeous way of not meeting one's deadlines and obligations, he doesn't believe in it. But then he is obviously one who speaks easily, and communicates with an incredible flow of words. He grew up reading everything he could get his hands on (literally going through the school library starting w/A) and who always carried a book (sitting under the table reading during family weddings).
Interesting comment by the DC artist search guys: they have more trouble finding artists who can draw people sitting naturally in chairs, or who can draw realistic children.... they are NOT looking for artist who can draw spandex covered muscles and over-blown female forms, those are a dime a dozen! They recommended that artists draw during the convention, draw the real people surrounding them.