Welcome back to DC's Writers Workshop. This is the tenth in a series of days on the blog where writers who are part of the blog's community will present work-in-progress in search of the opinions, responses, advice, and critiques of both readers who don't normally post comments here and local inhabitants of this place. I ask everyone to please read these works with the same attention you give the normal brand of posts here and respond in some way in the comments section below. Obviously, the closer your attention and the more you're able and willing to say to the writer the better. But any kind of related comment is welcome, even a simple sentence or two indicating you read the piece of writing and felt something or other about it would be helpful. The only guideline I'm going to give out regarding comments is that any response, whether lengthy or brief, praise filled or critical or anywhere inbetween, should be presented in a spirit of helping the writer in question. I'll be responding to the work too in the Comments section towards the end of the weekend. So, I guess all of that is probably clear. Giving support to the artists of different kinds who read and post on the blog has always been a very important aspect of this project, but this workshop series represents one of the first times that aspect has been made formal. This weekend's features Math Tinder -- writer, artist, author, blog/site proprietor, and one of this blog's longtime distinguished locals. She asks for any thoughts, support, or criticism you can give her. I thank her greatly for entrusting her work-in-progress to us, and I thank you all in advance for your kind participation. -- D.C.
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Decorator
by Math Tinder
You're onto something and you fully expect it to be visually rich. Why struggle when your time is so important? You already read A and still face the same problems. First Place Patterns knows how you feel. With our different and more realistic 2.0 paddle designs, you can find yourself solidly on your own team.
Still, this isn't simple. Did you try a book? You want the latest research learned by those who support your own code (and impress cocktail party guests). Our solution will load patterns into your sounds. You will see how the factory designs problems and better science. Why learn theory when you can look 'in the wild'?
You want to learn about a paddle design pattern.
You want to learn how First Place Patterns finished.
You want to learn the complex.
You want in a way that makes you alone.
At any given moment, we can help adapt. With First Place Patterns, access paddle designs in a way that will stick. As for the experience of others, try First Place Book. You also want to learn about patterns with others (to impress cocktail party guests). So often this wish is misunderstood. With First Place Book, you know the techniques that you'll learn will work immediately.
Also want to learn why your friend casually mentions 'real 2.0 design principles'? Don't be fooled. Here you risk looking to design in a way that makes you up a creek without. The next time you will have to find what to do instead. Your time is too valuable.
About the inheritance you might have: you know you don't desire something in the world, so why bother? You want to learn complex design problems (and impress cocktail party guests). Words, in the real word, will load patterns into your own clever use of their command. All in their native look: all 'in the wild'.
Your boss told you about the struggles with the prior format. Why? Time is so important, and this is more complex, like the Trading Spaces show. A book? But you want something compatible with the paddle design pattern.
You want design problems used in a paddle that is visually rich.
You want to know how First Place Patterns started.
You want in a way that lets you put these problems elsewhere.
In other want: to see how.
You know the next time--well, someone who struggles is so often misunderstood. When to use A? How to use it? In what environment?
Real world 2.0 design problems are the only answer, but if you are not careful they can and will hold you up a creek without. If you read A, you will have the same problems. Decorator is different because it is something from.
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p.s. Hey. Even though it's mostly a coincidence, a writers workshop seems like a really good way to get this place restarted properly. And Math's piece is probably the shortest work we've ever featured in the workshop context, which makes the plunge a relatively gentle one, which somehow seems appropriate too. So, please do dive in and give Math your feedback on her piece over the weekend. Much appreciated by her, of course, and by me too. I'll add the two cents of my response late in the weekend. Thanks, Math, and thank you in advance, everyone! Yeah, I'm back in Paris and kind of spaced out and feeling curiously rusty via a vis this p.s. writing business. I'm not used to sitting down much less typing. I'll do my best, but, yeah, expect a spacey p.s. today, and sorry. The vacation was pretty great, even if I think we stayed in each place about a day and a half too long, but, nonetheless, it was definitely a vacation, and I'll be parading a slideshow of trip pix here on Monday for better or worse. Anyway, I'll start catching up from where I left off last time. ** Pre-Thursday ** Polter, Thanks for laying out how you found my stuff. Its trippy and very Xmas-y reading that. ** Bollo, The worst was a 9 euro double espresso. The pizza was or is much, much better in Rome than in Firenze. I don't know if it's the local style or whatever, but every pizza we ate in Firenze was just a dry, burnt crust with a sloppy soup of barely cooked ingredients and sauce poured atop it. Oh, shit, about the reference. I was barely internetted while in Italy, so, ugh, sorry for the bad timing on my part. ** Little foal, To be a looky-loo, what you wrote to Polter was great. Harmony Korine, yes! Agreed, of course. Oh, your liking of Von Trier doesn't bother me. I liked 'The Idiots' except for the last fifteen or so minutes. And Yury likes 'Dancer in the Dark'. It takes all kinds or whatever they say and whatever that means. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi, D. Wow, Jim Nabors, that's a name I haven't heard or come across in a long, long time. And thanks a lot for the Lynne Tillman link. ** Jax, I got my second wind in Firenze. It lasted a couple of days. I think my legs are probably kind of muscular by my standards. Yury is someone who hates sitting still. Hence, my improved if sore as shit legs. But it is on amazon.co.uk. Sorry about the price. I muttered quite a whoa when I saw the asking price. Art plus CD books, what can you do. ** Misanthrope, Do a lot of characters die at the ends of my books? Hm, I guess in, uh, 'Closer'. And ... 'My Loose Thread'. And if video game death counts, in 'God Jr', but I think that's all? I mean if you mean death with a capital D. Hm. ** Inthemostpeculiarway, Hi, man! So nice to see you and your unfolding days again! Yeah, where did Kier go? I liked your day report squib, of course. The blueberry vodka and the 'Hoarders' marathon particularly. Envy on the latter, yuck on the former. Well, I have too many days full of too many things to report. It's a blur, and I'm a very spaced out me this morning. I'll just do yesterday, is that okay? Even though it was a blah day and not representative or anything. So, let's see ... we woke up in Hotel Fiorini in Firenze/ Florence, which is where we stayed. I thought the hotel was okay bordering on not so hot but doable, and Yury thought it was depressing. I had the hotel's free breakfast, which was kind of really bad -- instant coffee, store-bought cake thing, dry rolls, butter -- but free. Then Yury woke up, and we packed and checked out and left our stuff and walked around for a couple of hours. We'd pretty much seen everything there was to see by then (photos on Monday), and we were both kind of tired and ready to go home, so we ended up having double espressos at a cafe on the Republicca and watching other tourists walk around. I would say the breakdown on the tourist population while we were in Firenze would be, oh, 70% Italians, 10% Americans, 10% Russians, 5% French, 5% Japanese. Then we got a taxi to the airport. Firenze has the smallest airport for a fairly big city I've ever seen. There's just one tiny, packed terminal that you have to kind of herd your way through shoulder to shoulder with everyone else and very slowly. It was more weird and interesting than awful, though. The flight was 90 minutes. I read magazines and Yury took pictures out the window of the plane with his iPhone. He took so many photos on our vacation -- over 4000 -- that his iPhone kept crashing, but it's okay now. Paris was kind of gray when we got here. It looked very French and good, though, after all that Italian everything. I mean, the Italian everything was really nice, but we both decided we like French everything better, not that it's a contest or anything. So, we got back here. There was some mail including an invite to Oscar B and Kiddiepunk's wedding. And a couple of books. I plugged in my computer and enjoyed having the internet as second nature again, and Yury went shopping, and then we ate and stuff, and I fell asleep early 'cos I was pooped, and I'm still pooped right now, but I think I'll be normal-ish in a day or so. That's logical. Okay, man, how was your weekend? ** Tender Prey, Hi, Marc! I'm back on the horse and everything, I think, and I'll get on you-know-what pretty straight away. ** Math, Hi, M! It's your weekend, pal. Hope it goes great. I think it will. Thanks for being in the spotlight. ** Colin, Hi, Colin. Thanks for saying how you found my stuff. It's really cool to know how that worked. It's strange and a privilege. Oh, Kevin sent me you-know-what while I was away, so I'll get on that imminently. ** David, Greetings, sir. ** Sypha, Yeah, I think not having sex helps one write about sex or write well about sex or ... something. Spaced out, sorry. Nice to see you! ** Steevee, Hey. ** Alan, That's between me and my hairdresser. Oh, well, then I'm very pleased to have a avoided that Crypt. No, seriously, I feel like an idiot for missing that. I blame the sun. ** Thursday ** David Ehrenstein, Hi again. Oh, I can see that my gayness is interesting, sure, and I would guess my not being that interested in my being gay is part of what makes it interesting. And, of course, like you, I'm quite thrilled that my gayness helps preclude my 'fitting in', and I count my lucky stars for that, although, yes, having basic rights is beyond worth fighting for. So, yes. Thanks a lot for the link to the thing about Tim Dlugos. I remember that whole situation with Philip and the Gray Gallery's chickening out very well. I so hope to get the chance to see the finally completed collaboration. Lovely. ** Bernard Welt, You like them mouthy. That's interesting. Me too, I think, sometimes. ** Squeaky, Yep, Math fiction, and there it is. It's great that you guys shared your works and that you met Scott. Oh, yes, that anti-drug and anti-sexual adventure thing is so boring and self-indicting. I get that a lot with reactions to my books and almost always and only from middle-aged gay guys. All that nose wrinkling and holier than thou moralism and blah blah. It's shocking, really. Or maybe shockingly not shocking? ** Bill, Thank you, Bill. About my slaves. We'll have to compare notes about Italy. Any further Recollets news or reason for me to query them on your behalf or anything? ** Sypha, I'll finally get a my first decent look at my Facebook wall today. Cool if Melissa posted there. Thanks for the alert. Interesting and unfortunate about the new Current 93 album, or about the recent ones. Sounds kind of like he's doing what Coil/Peter C. did in that project's later phase, releasing and rereleasing a lot of so-so stuff and treading water for income or something? ** Math, Great response to the slaves, my pal. I loved that. Thank you! ** Alter Clef Records, Well, hey there, Nick! I'm kind of tired out and spaced. Italy was very cool, though. Worth the come down. Yes, a little kiddie told me you might be at the wedding thingeroony in July with a musical instrument of some sort in tow. I'll be there too. Whoo-hoo! Very cool about all the new projects and product. I can't wait to hear or read or both all of them. Talk soon, yeah, and love to you too, pal. ** Allesfliesst, Hey, man. Dresden, interesting. My only knowledge of it has to do with the Nazi era stuff. Oh, and that band Dresden Dolls. Sounds, you know, really nice and luxurious. Dude, I've been doing almost nothing but art appreciation for ten days, not to mention the large quantity of Madonnas involved, so my nerdiness makes yours, uh, whatever. Less nerdy at the very least. But I bet I'm more tan than you are. ** Syreearmwellion, Hey. That was the only picture of magnet4haters. Makes you wonder, right? Makes you suspicious too. Well, if you can get a satellite cable thing that gets MTV Italy, you'll get a bunch of rugby, but it's like a reality show thing where, I think, Italian teens are sent if they're bad or get arrested or something. It was hard to figure out. That Gold Panda vid/song was nice. Thanks for that. ** Steevee, Thank you kindly for that. Steve. There's a new Burzum album? Like new new? I didn't know that. I'll definitely get it post-haste, of course. What do you think of it? ** Jax, Legs feels like I'm walking in a lake but without the cold and getting wet part. ** The Dreadful Flying Glove, Yes, thank you, wonderful, thank you! You made my imagination feel like home again. I would say a lot more if my brain wasn't so strangely tired. And my arms too. I don't know why my arms are tired.Oh, wait, from carrying my busted backpack and laptop all over the place, of course. You are super-okay! That is awesome news! ** Casey McKinney, Hey, Casey! What a pleasure and a treasure! Oh, I'm back where the internet is almost free now. Yes indeed, about Blake Butler's new novel, right? Well, you read my blurb, and I meant it. Killer novel. If the earth doesn't shake before it, the earth is dead. You personally are reviewing it for Fanzine? If so, wow, cool! Yeah, sure, when there's a galley or whatever of my novel, I'll make sure they send you one. Awesome to see you, man. When is your kiddo going to be old enough to allow that long promised trip to Paris? ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi again, Ben. Can't wait for the new YnY. The event looks cool and trippy. What's that fish thing? Everyone, courtesy of _B_A, pix from the launch of event of the imminently forthcoming issue of Yuck 'n' Yum are here. ** Creative Massacre, Hey, pal! Thanks, yeah, the trip was pretty good. How have you been? ** Misanthrope, Hi, G. Yury really liked the trip for the most part except for the hotel in Firenze and the, in his opinion, utter lack of stylishness and unacceptable hair cuts and colors of the Italian people he came across. Hm, I would say a willing slave is far more interesting than an unwilling one, but remember I'm a anarchist, dude. Oh, yeah? How about, just off the top of my head: 'Now, I'm gonna love you / Till the heavens stop the rain / I'm gonna love you / Till the stars fall from the sky for you and I'? Defend that. ** Okay, now, please oh please give your attention to Math's work this weekend and leave respective comments between now and Monday. Thank you so much! I will go try to wake up or readjust to life or something now, and I will see you in the comments area come later Sunday, and I will see you back here on Monday.
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