[stylist] project I'm considering

Mon Sep 29 20:07:17 UTC 2014

My point exactly.

Bridgit

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From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Barbara
HAMMEL via stylist
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 12:22 PM
To: Sherry Gomes; Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: Re: [stylist] project I'm considering

Hey, and even if someone can point at yours and say "there's already one
like that" it's not written in your writing style because that is unique to
you. If we only aimed to write about something rarely written about, that
would be impossible. Even if you took the same plot of someone else's story
but wrote it in your own words, it would be a unique story. Everyone's
vocabulary is different, everyone's way of describing things is different.
We all have different metaphors and similes and cliches we love to use in
offhanded ways. We all have favorite words we like to use, favorite names,
favorite settings ... I think people who get stuck on "too many of those
have been written" look more at the topic than the construct of an actual
work.
(Just my two cents.)
Barbara

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> On Sep 29, 2014, at 07:19, Sherry Gomes via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org>
wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've been pondering over a possible writing project for the last 
> couple weeks and wanted it to run it by you all and see what you 
> think. I'm running it by some others I know, editors and writers as well.
> 
> About three weeks ago, I had to put my 13 and a half year old retired 
> guide dog to sleep. She lived with me in her retirement, for which I 
> am quite thankful. Anyway, many people have written books about 
> getting a guide dog, but I wanted to take a different approach. Bianca 
> was the smartest guide dog I ever had or ever met, but she was also, 
> and there's no better way to put it, she was a mischievous brat at 
> home! Until she was too old to be able to get into much, and then she 
> still found ways. So, I have many tales to tell about her adventures, 
> and I thought it might be cool to write a short book of stories about 
> her, with a few warm and fuzzy sweet things in there, but more the 
> humorous things, the irritating things, the times I told her that the 
> author of the book Marley and Me had never met her so didn't know a 
> mischievous dog yet! The emergency trips, yes trips, to the vet 
> because she got hold of something she shouldn't. The laughter, the 
> tears, the times I wanted to wring her sweet little neck. And yet the
great love and companionship and joy she gave me every day of her life with
me.
> 
> As I say, many have written the story of their experiences with guide 
> dogs, but I'm hoping by focusing more on the aspects of living with a 
> smart and mischievous dog, it could bring something new to the story. 
> And animal stories seem to be quite popular lately.
> 
> Anyone who has ever dealt with bad dog behavior could relate to the
stories.
> What does anyone think of the idea? Curious.
> 
> Sherry
> 
> 
> 
> "The day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our 
> friends and break all bonds of fellowship, when the age of men comes
crashing down.
> But it is not this day! This day, we fight!
> By all that you hold dear, by this good earth, I bid you, STAND! Men 
> of the West!"
> Aragorn, Lord of the Rings, Return of the King
> 
> 
> 
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