"All the suffering days and nights until I dare dream again."

[greygirlbeast]

I look into the mirror, usually by accident, and see the face of someone who hasn't slept well in many years.

Very, very cold Outside (20F, feels like 8F), but warm enough in the House.

Still and all and yet, I wrote 2,014 words on The Drowning Girl yesterday. I passed manuscript page 100. And to the title page I added a subtitle, so that it's

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[haceldama]

Beautifully stated (big surprise, coming from you). There is a story in DARK DELICACIES III: HAUNTINGS, that manages to encapsulate nearly *every* problem you piint out about the "interauthor" (a phrase I worship now); it's entitled "Tyler's Third Act" by Mick Garris, which is a wonderfully grim and entertaining story until you reach the final few pages and the ending -- all of which completely negates the story's being able to exist in the first place. A lot of readers are going goo-goo-ga-ga over this story and it drives me to despair because, as if to make the antithesis of your point -- none of them have bothered to stop and ask the most simple questions concerning the interauthor's abilities and motivations.

I didn't mean to go off like that, but you hit at something very close to my heart as both a writer and reader -- which is to say it's a *sore* point. (I haven't slept well in years, either, so you've got nothing but my sympathy and understanding.)

I greatly admire you work, and you courage and wit as a human being.

Shutting up now ....

[greygirlbeast]

A lot of readers are going goo-goo-ga-ga over this story and it drives me to despair because, as if to make the antithesis of your point -- none of them have bothered to stop and ask the most simple questions concerning the interauthor's abilities and motivations.

This is such a great source of frustration for those of us who see it. Having seen it, you can never stop seeing it. And those who doggedly do not see it, likely never shall.