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The best thing today
- LoveHistory
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 3751
- Joined: September 2008
- Location: Wisconsin, USA
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[quote=""DianeL""]I won't get into details irrelevant to most of us, but today, rainy and cold and beautiful, is one I am grateful for in Christ. Training myself to humility may be beyond me in the end, but there is joy even occasionally releasing myself to a finer will than I can ever possess, and even more in finding hope for a loved one's greater good.[/quote]
Diane, you have my support. We will never attain perfection. All we can do is try to do better. And I believe we get credit, so to speak, for the trying.
Diane, you have my support. We will never attain perfection. All we can do is try to do better. And I believe we get credit, so to speak, for the trying.
- MLE (Emily Cotton)
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 3566
- Joined: August 2008
- Interest in HF: started in childhood with the classics, which, IMHO are HF even if they were contemporary when written.
- Favourite HF book: Prince of Foxes, by Samuel Shellabarger
- Preferred HF: Currently prefer 1600 and earlier, but I'll read anything that keeps me turning the page.
- Location: California Bay Area
I am absolutely thrilled today because I have been accepted as a one-on-one online critique partner by an HF novelist I respect very much, who has been in the business for over 40 years, has pver 30 novels out there and whose writing (for the most part) I enjoy. We met originally at the San Diego HNS conference and a couple times more at a local chapter meeting. Even though I panned one of her novels! (she agreed with me, how gracious is that?)
I hope she doesn't take one look at my latest opus and regret the offer. (Altho I take some comfort that she has at least seen a five-minute clip of my stuff; at our chapter 3 different writers get up to be critiqued each meeting and I was one of the first victims.)
I hope she doesn't take one look at my latest opus and regret the offer. (Altho I take some comfort that she has at least seen a five-minute clip of my stuff; at our chapter 3 different writers get up to be critiqued each meeting and I was one of the first victims.)
[quote=""MLE""]I am absolutely thrilled today because I have been accepted as a one-on-one online critique partner by an HF novelist I respect very much, who has been in the business for over 40 years, has pver 30 novels out there and whose writing (for the most part) I enjoy.[/quote]
Congrats, MLE!
Congrats, MLE!
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- DianeL
- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1029
- Joined: May 2011
- Location: Midatlantic east coast, United States
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[quote=""LoveHistory""]Diane, you have my support. We will never attain perfection. All we can do is try to do better. And I believe we get credit, so to speak, for the trying.[/quote]
LH, thank you. And what is amazing - yesterday came with a surprise which was even better. Truly amazing.
LH, thank you. And what is amazing - yesterday came with a surprise which was even better. Truly amazing.
"To be the queen, she agreed to be the widow!"
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The pre-modern world was willing to attribute charisma to women well before it was willing to attribute sustained rationality to them.
---Medieval Kingship, Henry A. Myers
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http://dianelmajor.blogspot.com/
I'm a Twit: @DianeLMajor
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The pre-modern world was willing to attribute charisma to women well before it was willing to attribute sustained rationality to them.
---Medieval Kingship, Henry A. Myers
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http://dianelmajor.blogspot.com/
I'm a Twit: @DianeLMajor
- LoveHistory
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Going to a Braves game tomorrow night. This will be first time I've been to an evening game. We went last year around this time to a day game and I nearly expired from the heat!
On the neither good nor bad front, they are apparently filming a movie in our office building and out on the surrounding streets. It can be interesting from a people-watching perspective, but it is also very disruptive. Adding to the fun, our office is renovating so it's total chaos at work today.
On the neither good nor bad front, they are apparently filming a movie in our office building and out on the surrounding streets. It can be interesting from a people-watching perspective, but it is also very disruptive. Adding to the fun, our office is renovating so it's total chaos at work today.
The signs say "Identity Theft". I'm guessing it's what I see listed for Director, Seth Gordon, on IMDb, starring Jason Bateman. What I mostly saw when I went downstairs to grab lunch was crews setting up in various areas around the building. Our office tower is connected to one of the major downtown hotels, so I suspect the hotel will be in the movie. Our building does have a lovely atrium/lobby area that probably lends itself well for filming purposes.