monday night writers (with drinks)
Monday, March 15th, 2010
Me: “I’d like to write a writing group. ‘Have you thought about writing it in the first person?’ ‘I think your story really starts on page 9.'”
Liz: “The poetry group would be ‘Why don’t you make it rhyme?’ or ‘I think you should replace every third word with the word after it in the dictionary. To make it more postmodern.'”
“People really say that?”
“Yes.”
“Don’t they have medication for that?”
Later I read out a line of dialog and Liz says “I have to show you a woman I know who writes really good dialog.”
“Are you saying my dialog is shit?”
“No!”
“I’ve had a quarter of a glass of wine so I’m paranoid. WHAT OF IT?”
Naomi: “They do have medicine for that.”
Liz silently hands me chocolate.
“There’s some dialog I would have liked to have written.”
