tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2888091845778631069.post1564937197680733225..comments2023-06-21T06:54:11.510-07:00Comments on The Midnight Library: Sew What?Donna Barrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16904536331777669867noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2888091845778631069.post-73060401009629965032009-02-17T08:57:00.000-08:002009-02-17T08:57:00.000-08:00It's kinda geeky-sad that I only recall colleagues...It's kinda geeky-sad that I only recall colleagues from those con panels. He and I had a cheerful difference about what you could get away with in fiction. I said a writer COULD get away with anything -- depending on how it was handled. <BR/><BR/>The example I gave was the young Rommel playing the part of a chorus-line ballerina because his cadet commander loved theater. The way to make it work was to use his pride in expertise: "He would be proud about being the only boy who could stay up on point!" <BR/><BR/>I used this later, in Desert Peach #30. It made for some very cute art.Donna Barrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16904536331777669867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2888091845778631069.post-30402629416126864352009-02-16T21:01:00.000-08:002009-02-16T21:01:00.000-08:00I once had the amusing pleasure of kneeling to wip...I once had the amusing pleasure of kneeling to wipe spilled cream from Neil Gaiman's black jeans at a gay and lesbian media awards dinner. He was so worried about any of it getting on his iconic leather jacket that he didn't see the big dribble of it down his thigh. (It was late in the dinner and the tired server stumbled...)<BR/><BR/>Which has nothing to do with anything, but it was the memory that came up when I was trying to remember if he was actually drawing a few small figures on the napkin. I swear I think he was but I can't be sure.Miss Jane A. Barcrofthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15490162593813782637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2888091845778631069.post-78074082952526925702009-02-11T08:39:00.000-08:002009-02-11T08:39:00.000-08:00They think they're covering comics when they featu...They think they're covering comics when they feature Neil Gaiman. Now we all love Gaiman -- he's a fine writer -- but he's a PROSE writer. I don't even know if he can draw stick figures. In comics he's a script-writer. A comparative handful of us are actual comics AUTHORS -- artists, letterers and colorists as well as writers on one book. Promote Gaiman on NPR all they like as a prose author, but he's not a "comics author."Donna Barrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16904536331777669867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2888091845778631069.post-8408788087108543282009-02-11T05:10:00.000-08:002009-02-11T05:10:00.000-08:00And you notice how the supposedly "progressive" Na...And you notice how the supposedly "progressive" National Public Radio never seems to mention women "non mainstream" authors? Instead, they invariably dig up Steven Barnes as their token (gasp! choke!) SF writer (which, by the way, is not meant as a reflection on Barnes' enviable talents, but on the perception of the hags running NPR). And Heaven Forfend they should deign to devote time to writers who also (ugh! shudder!) draw comic art.Michael Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11808166630399508232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2888091845778631069.post-86274358796498381382009-02-10T11:00:00.000-08:002009-02-10T11:00:00.000-08:00AGGGGH! Mainstream women writers! Don't get me sta...AGGGGH! Mainstream women writers! Don't get me started! "A poignant view of a woman's sacrifices and regrets at midlife!" "A sensitive portrayal of a mother's choices!" <BR/><BR/>Long ago my best "writing buddy" from high school joined a whole buncha writer's groups full of Sensitive Women Writers; got into the magical realism thing too. I knew just how it would go down at those tea-parties the minute I said that my storytelling models were John Buchan and Rider Haggard...Miss Jane A. Barcrofthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15490162593813782637noreply@blogger.com