Tonight I drug Amber to a writers' (where to place this ' is arbitrary depending on whether you see that as a plural or a singular) group. Yeah, you're not the only one thinking "what was she thinking?" Mostly I was thinking I was being nagged from a source that can lay down a nag barrage. So I went. And I drug Amber.
Let's see. Highlights? A dude writing a YA novel about a Nazi who dropped the n-bomb all over the place in the first five pages of his manuscript that the group READ OUT LOUD. Excuse me, wtmf? To make this all the more comfortable, he was asking for a critique of whether these pages were acceptable to submit to an agent after they asked for pages off his query letter. I tried to be polite by saying NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO /darth (actually I was V V NICE), but these people didn't know me. That is to say, this jackass didn't give a SHIT about what any of the women in the group said. Who am I anyway, just some random chick off the street who thinks that YA novels w/ Nazi protagonists (written from a close 3rd) are not cool.
Seriously, what the world needs is another story about a frickin' Nazi and the white boy who defeats him. ??????????
Well, ok then.
We're going back. There's material in this.
I hope the fangirl who was in the writing group reads this and it's someone on my flist. Are there lots of n-bombs in your writing group? Did you feel weird and uncomfortable in the room w/ PoC as white people dropped n-bombs all over the place? The whole air of patronizing misogyny was also very special. I expect blood next session.
Why can't you just go to a writing group and make it through without men talking over you and white people being clueless as fuck? Reality, she is a harsh mistress.
PS: YA novels about Nazis are not cool. Please stop.