1/20/97 6:55:19 PM Opening "Chat Log* 1/20/97"
Berrins: Hey, just got here, where's all the chatting?
NeonDust: <---have big small problems...;)
Rhyssa2: Hi Paul and group.
NeonDust: Hi, Debbie
Sushiwritr: Hi Debbie. Who's greeting tonight?
Berrins: Yello Debster
Rhyssa2: Amy will be greeting as soon as she arrives
Berrins: go figure
Sushiwritr: Now the Fiction Writers is beginning!!!
Rhyssa2: Paul do you want to wait for her?
Berrins: (organ theme music)
Sushiwritr: Possibly that's better.
Sushiwritr: Surf's up tonight.
Strebe: Dog Ends? LOL. Is that like dag ends?
Berrins: I think she's snoozing under a cottonwood tree
Sushiwritr: AMY!!!!!!!!
Sushiwritr: Wake up!
Berrins: teeth all stuck with peanut brittle
Rhyssa2: Until then... The eWorld fiction writers group will be meeting soon. Everyone is free to stay and listen. :)
Strebe: Dag ends is an Australian term that means "left-overs".
Sushiwritr: Discussing a work.
Sushiwritr: (mine)
NeonDust: Sushi, sorry I was up against the wire w/critique...barely got back to LA Sunday-camping was addictive
Berrins: Hot dags!
Sushiwritr: But you made it!
Rhyssa2: Ok Amy is here. We can start:)
NeonDust: Yup! :)
Sushiwritr: Ahem.
Sushiwritr: BTW--my wife is going to kill me.
Sushiwritr: Five minutes ago she asked me to drive her to work.
Mstrebe: Hello Everyone. I'm here, but I also have to work so I'm going to be rather ethereal.
Berrins: Save it for the mystery group
Strebe: Oh. That's not wise. Tell her I'll pay her upwards of $75 not to.
Sushiwritr: A friend took her, so its OK.
Berrins: Thats ok, i'm having cereal
Sushiwritr: I'll address your crits in rough order.
NeonDust: A ceries...?:)
Sushiwritr: Amy asked for more descriptions.
Sushiwritr: Of the characters.
Sushiwritr: But I wonder, physical or internal?
Sushiwritr: Where to add the details?
Strebe: Where's the hisssssssssing Australian these days??
Sushiwritr: Judy? Don't know.
Berrins: for me, internal. the police report gives the physical
Rhyssa2: I liked the detail in the police report, btw.
Sushiwritr: Those guys were rather calm, I guess.
Berrins: Has James always been religious, or is a recent convert like Ted?
NeonDust: <--liked the sparse style, perhaps more dialogue w/townsfolk..
Sushiwritr: Good point. Can add that detail. A bit longer, but not much.
Sushiwritr: Dialogue, like an actual "sale" or something.
Rhyssa2: That would be good.
Sushiwritr: Debbie mentioned a few things,
Berrins: Are they members of a large organized religion or a small cult sized group?
NeonDust: Maybe just a hint more of their 'outsiderness'.
Strebe: {{{ Leslie }}}
Cafe Mom: Didn't he mention that they were Mormon?
Sushiwritr: Smaller. Catholics don't have to beat the bushes like that!
Cafe Mom: {{{daan}}} hey there
Sushiwritr: Hi Leslie.
Berrins: No, just that Mormons like candy
Sushiwritr: Mormon area, not that the guys are Mormon themselves.
Sushiwritr: No books in hand--just candy.
Cafe Mom: oh, okay, just wondered what experience you have with Mormons
Berrins: I guess my children are Mormons, too <g>
Sushiwritr: Debbie said the guard at the gate was too relaxed.
Sushiwritr: (Lived in Mormon country for many years.)
Cafe Mom: I thought Matt's comments about the base were good
Berrins: Matt added what I thought; they would never have gotten in that easily.
Rhyssa2: I agreed with Matt's comments, too.
Sushiwritr: I might add that, surely, the first guard got in trouble.
Cafe Mom: then you should show us that
Sushiwritr: Perhaps, big trouble.
Berrins: Perhaps James was in the military, and his ID is the only one he's got.
Sushiwritr: Debbie mentioned "trouble peeing."
Berrins: Does that work, Matt?
Rhyssa2: He is in the brig with the guys.
Sushiwritr: Guys are locker-room urinal users.
Cafe Mom: This didn't seem like enough trouble for a compelling story, to me
Sushiwritr: The cuffs make peeing difficult. ;-)
Cafe Mom: (sorry I didn't get a crit in yet...I will, Paul)
Sushiwritr: Thanks.
Sushiwritr: If the guys had been "charged," it could be serious trouble.
Sushiwritr: But they were not.
Cafe Mom: but they weren't
NeonDust: I felt trouble coming, but in the end it de-materialized....
Cafe Mom: so....you would consider that?
Sushiwritr: I wrote it like a "slice of life."
Sushiwritr: Somebody said Road Novel. I like the term.
Berrins: a technical question; does someone have to be charged with something if they are read their rights?
Sushiwritr: No.
Cafe Mom: I thought the preserves were not realistic. Sorry.
Sushiwritr: My buddy, deputy Doug, sent me a Miranda card.
Sushiwritr: I read it to everyone at work.
NeonDust: The card?
Sushiwritr: Yes.
Cafe Mom: (we're not on protocol or anything tonight, are we?)
Sushiwritr: It just avoids the crooks getting off later, on technicalities.
Cafe Mom: which is rare
Sushiwritr: No protocal.
Mstrebe: {jerking suddenly to life} ID cards are designed to expire on your end of service.
Berrins: Any particular aspect of the story you would like questions on?
NeonDust: If anyone 'assumes the position' you'll know who's been around some...:)
Sushiwritr: I wondered whether to jazz it up.
Sushiwritr: Or just leave it like a "day in the life of."
Sushiwritr: Opposite to my other work, I now realize.
Mstrebe: < recovering Mormon
Berrins: the flat tone would work with some contrast, or as a "lull before the storm"
Sushiwritr: How DO you spell "damnednably"?
Rhyssa2: Are you striving for a certain word count, Paul?
Strebe: Matt, you recovered long, long ago.
Strebe: Damnably
Cafe Mom: Matt, are there 12 step programs for that? <g>
Sushiwritr: Sure?
Cafe Mom: 'course, then you'd be a recovering 12-stepper
NeonDust: I'd like the ending to reflect the two character's character...sorry to harp on that..:)
Mstrebe: Leslie-- Of course. It's called Beer.
Strebe: Am I sure of the spelling? I'd be willing to bet a GOOD milk shake on it.
Mstrebe: Two six packs
Cafe Mom: LOL
Sushiwritr: Roger mentioned adding the character's previous experiences.
Sushiwritr: How, that is, could they compare MPs with regular cops?
Sushiwritr: (Ever done anything irregular in a small town?)
Mstrebe: In my experience, MPs are a lot more likely to break heads.
Sushiwritr: Yikes!
Mstrebe: How does a small town get inside a military reservation?
Cafe Mom: Matt, that's what I was thinking
Sushiwritr: Appearances. Ever been to Los Alamos? It looks like two small towns
Cafe Mom: I almost got arrested on base for not standing for the Pledge before a Woody Allen movie
Mstrebe: The town isn't actually in the base though--It's like Ridgecrest: Adjacent to it.
NeonDust: True...I'm unclear why Parks would have authority over the MP's
Strebe: ROFL Leslie
Berrins: The local Vets hospital has a lot of housing on it. Is that different from a reservation?
Sushiwritr: "Looks like" a small town--isn't really one.
Sushiwritr: I think Parks had authority over the civilians.
Mstrebe: That I can buy, but you still wouldn't be able to buy gas or anything else.
Berrins: Leslie- they must have been bananas....
Mstrebe: Why does this have to happen on a Base at all?
Cafe Mom: I get it
Sushiwritr: I've done it before.
Sushiwritr: Used to work for an AAFES sub-contractor.
Cafe Mom: (It was Sleeper)
Sushiwritr: The clerks can be pretty lax.
Mstrebe: Some bases might be a little more relaxed--but not a restricted one.
Sushiwritr: About cards and all.
Sushiwritr: I saw Sleeper==a silly classic.
Sushiwritr: Roger, good points about the "negative" statements.
Sushiwritr: The one is ment to be ironic--the others I let slip by.
Mstrebe: Actually, there some civilian run business on bases, but not the gas stations.
Sushiwritr: That's what I figured, Matt.
Berrins: Thanks. I'm reading Safire's book "FumbleRules"; good information.
Sushiwritr: Have to check it out.
Mstrebe: So why does this have to happen on a base, since the base doesn't really act like a base?
Sushiwritr: He's one of the Guardians of English.
Sushiwritr: It could have been a number of other places, I guess.
Berrins: The pen as mighty sword.
Sushiwritr: This just seems the most bizzare sort of situation.
Sushiwritr: Oh, about those cottonwood trees.
Cafe Mom: I think it could be more bizarre with regular cops
Sushiwritr: In the Great Basin they mark settlements.
Rhyssa2: Some red-neck towns can be even more bizzare. ;)
Sushiwritr: Settlers planted them near homes and streams.
NeonDust: Paul, was it a coincidence that their ride to town turns out to be the spokesperson for the base?
Sushiwritr: Coincidence?
Cafe Mom: nothing is a coincidence, or nothing should be
Sushiwritr: No. Did not try to attach any big significance to it.
Sushiwritr: Daan, you mentioned about the "purpose of the story."
Rhyssa2: Amy is doing a wonderful job. It's pretty busy out there.
Sushiwritr: I did not "grow" the characters.
Berrins: cloned?
Sushiwritr: I was not thinking in those terms.
Sushiwritr: Should I?
Strebe: Well. Gosh. I finished the story not having understood why it was written.
Cafe Mom: May I say something?
Strebe: Not all stories require character development.
Sushiwritr: Do they need a purpose?
Strebe: That's why I couldn't comment. I just didn't understand what the story was for.
Sushiwritr: I'm usually bonked for overdoing that! ;-)
Cafe Mom: In a story this short, there needs to be something more.
Sushiwritr: It could be longer.
Sushiwritr: I did not preset a word count.
Sushiwritr: More what, Leslie?
NeonDust: ::was about to ask, 'What was the point of the ending?', but then glanced at my story in progress :)
Berrins: How about constrasting the peaceful desert with the sudden military response
Sushiwritr: The title, "Oasis," meant to tie in the base, and the ending.
Cafe Mom: More conflict, more intensity, more action, more of a lot of things
Cafe Mom: I do like the title, but they're my favorite band. ;-)
Sushiwritr: Oh!
Sushiwritr: Should a helicopter explode?
Cafe Mom: perhaps
Sushiwritr: Perhaps one carrying nerve gas?
Cafe Mom: I'm serious
Berrins: chutzpah gas
Rhyssa2: Matt must be asleep.
Cafe Mom: Why did one character have to be black? It didn't seem to matter.
Berrins: Actually , Paul, not a bad idea. Bring in some protestors later on.
Sushiwritr: So, there's a "real but dull," version, and a jazzed-up storytelling version.
Cafe Mom: fiction shouldn't be like real life
Sushiwritr: Those bases do attract protesters.
Mstrebe: Oh, helicopter--yes, good idea.
Mstrebe: Helicopters are like ketchup on a story.
Sushiwritr: Used to drive by the atomic test site, saw them every time.
Sushiwritr: atomic ketchup?
NeonDust: <--thought the style (clipped, somewhat terse) matched the surroundings nicely
Rhyssa2: glow in the dark good
Berrins: Yes, Paul, the style matched the setting, until they were detained
Sushiwritr: BTW, Mormons do, indeed, make candy.
Strebe: I didn't when I was Mormon. I just bought it.
Sushiwritr: Once ate pound-sized fudge from Salt lake City.
Strebe: I still do.
Cafe Mom: LOL
Mstrebe: Oh, they make it all the time. They don't buy it.
Sushiwritr: But I can assure you that European chocolate is very popular in SLC; Finnish, Dutch, etc.
Berrins: Hey, its enough that they are selling candy for a religious cause.
Sushiwritr: Glad you liked my desert-descriptions.
Cafe Mom: what does this have to do with your story
Cafe Mom: did you ever describe the candy?
Cafe Mom: I don't even remember
Sushiwritr: Makes it realistic.
Berrins: Assuming the head guy isn't absconding with the funds...
Sushiwritr: So that's an area of TOO much detail??
Sushiwritr: Maybe I ought to add on a PS.
Sushiwritr: The phone was off due to line work that day, or something.
Berrins: The candy part is fine; sweet, actually.
Sushiwritr: I did not mean to question anyone's sincereity.
Rhyssa2: Paul, I'm sure the picture, of the story, in your head is quite clear. You just need to show the reader more of what you are seeing.
Sushiwritr: True, Debbie.
Sushiwritr: That's why you guys are so great.
Sushiwritr: One of the many reasons. :-)
Sushiwritr: Things are easily missed in the translation to the page.
NeonDust: I found the beginning to be character driven, and the ending to be driving the characters.
Sushiwritr: Hmm . . .
NeonDust: But I like the writing.
Sushiwritr: That is like my character Sandy.
Sushiwritr: Swept along by the situation.
Sushiwritr: Maybe they need to be more active.
NeonDust: Maybe they should be the ones to get themselves out of their situation?
Berrins: Not necessarily, but something needs to be going on
Sushiwritr: Of course, the wrong sort of action would get their heads bashed by the MPs . . .
Berrins: Ted's past could get them into more trouble
Sushiwritr: About the ranks and titles.
NeonDust: Head bashing is lively reading...:)
Sushiwritr: Any ideas from you vets?
Sushiwritr: "Head MP" is not right, I know that.
Sushiwritr: Neither is "guard."
Cafe Mom: yes, I think some head bashing would be good
NeonDust: Just use rank..sergeants, corporals etc...
Sushiwritr: Matt?
Sushiwritr: Corporal so and so, please bash this guy's head.
NeonDust: lol
Sushiwritr: Sir.
Mstrebe: Rank is correct.
Berrins: Maybe Ted could panic, thinking his past is going to catch up with himk and he tries to escape.
Mstrebe: The station commander might be the correct title, or simply the Captain.
Sushiwritr: OK> What rank is a lonely guard, usually?
NeonDust: :::held his sputtering face into a jar of preserves on the gas weapon reserve:::
Sushiwritr: Seems like scut-work duty.
Rhyssa2: but will the guys know what the rank is just by looking at the sleeves>
Mstrebe: Lonely guards are generally e4 through E6 if they're MPs.
Cafe Mom: perhaps the person could brag about his rank. Military types sometimes do that.
Mstrebe: The Officer in charge (OIC) would be an O2 or O3
NeonDust: Good point, Cafe Mom
Sushiwritr: I had a guy do that once.
Cafe Mom: thanks, Neon
Sushiwritr: In Oklahoma.
Sushiwritr: "I am a Lt. in the US Army-" etc., like he was a cardinal from the Pope or something.
NeonDust: yeah, and...'you kids are in deep trouble' kinda thing
Sushiwritr: I appreaciate his service, don't get me wrong.
Sushiwritr: But the guy didn't impress me much, otherwise.
Cafe Mom: are you Catholic, Paul?
Cafe Mom: just curious
Sushiwritr: No.
Sushiwritr: OIC, eh?
Mstrebe: Officer in Charge. It's a generic term for the boss.
Sushiwritr: Sounds good--I'll use it.
Berrins: O3- term for ozone.
Sushiwritr: I wonder about jazzing up the story, though.
Cafe Mom: He could say OIC, and they could misread it as "Oh I see."
NeonDust: <--like to see Ted and James bust outta there, and look back on their ordeal, and carry on...
Mstrebe: Add a jazz bar.
Berrins: That depends on the tone you want.
Amylf1: more contrast between the characters...
Cafe Mom: a roadhouse
Cafe Mom: that would be cool
Sushiwritr: Quiet outside, fraught with potential perils.
Berrins: Good idea, Amy
Cafe Mom: kind of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfish
Sushiwritr: Ah, bikers eat peanut brittle too, you know.
Mstrebe: Have someone die.
NeonDust: lol
NeonDust: <--lol re: peanut brittle...:)
Sushiwritr: Contrast between the characters? How?
Amylf1: mmmm... their life stories...
Sushiwritr: In their attitudes, or ??
Amylf1: yes
Berrins: Paul, I like the austere, flat style, but pumping it up takes that away unless you use it as contrast
Sushiwritr: Yes, more about their lives. As narrative? Or conversation?
Strebe: Sorry. Got booted.
Mstrebe: Contrast: Have one be white and one be black.
Sushiwritr: lol
Sushiwritr: I'm lucky. Was booted twice, earlier on.
Berrins: Or one be russian and the other a red neck
NeonDust: Remember Pulp Fiction? The banal, bizarre conversation on the way to a killing...wow!
Sushiwritr: Red necks don't like religious door-knockers.
Sushiwritr: UNLESS they have yummy candy in hand.
Berrins: Or a husband/wife team with problems they are avoiding
Cafe Mom: Nobody likes religious door knockers
Cafe Mom: not even other religious door knockers
Sushiwritr: They don't like me . . . I debate them ferociously.
Amylf1: remember who has come to your door, asking for church donations?
NeonDust: <--hadda a cross door knob once! :)
Berrins: a converted red neck
Rhyssa2: Amen, Leslie. :)
Berrins: "on a mission for god"
Sushiwritr: But we've had Mormons over for dinner, too.
Sushiwritr: Long ways from home, 'ya know.
Mstrebe: I've had mormons over for dinner too.
Berrins: Main idea- the setting lulls the main characters into not discussing their differences
Sushiwritr: Active missionaries, I mean.
NeonDust: Paul, perhaps the person who called the MP's...you might give us a bit of her deal...
Sushiwritr: Yes.
Sushiwritr: Good idea.
Berrins: That, and their mission
Sushiwritr: Could object for any of several reasons--or all of them.
Amylf1: you captured the feel of the environment... very well...
Sushiwritr: I love the desert.
Amylf1: and I guess we want more description of the others
NeonDust: Yes.
Mstrebe: CharlesAP went on a mormon mission Paul.
Sushiwritr: Debbie--Vegas to Alaska--quite a contrast.
Cafe Mom: I have never seen the desert; therefore, I find it difficult to believe it exists.
Rhyssa2: Alaska is much better. :)
Berrins: The incident at the base (roadhouse, etc) forces them to confront the differences
Sushiwritr: Really!
Strebe: Well. What an awful connection.
Sushiwritr: Black missionaries have it hard. Racism and religious animosity.
Berrins: Don't cacti come in little stone filled dishes?
NeonDust: I fell right dab splat into the desert environment almost immediately..it was great
Strebe: I, too, served a Mormon mission. To Japan, oddly enough.
Sushiwritr: Aha! That's where you picked up on the nihongo.
Sushiwritr: I drive by the Defense Language Institute sometimes.
Cafe Mom: I think the desert is a NASA conspiracy.
Strebe: LOL Leslie
Sushiwritr: But they say the Mormon school is even better.
Berrins: nihongo?
Sushiwritr: Japanese in Japanese.
Rhyssa2: Paul, do you have any more questions?
Sushiwritr: I'm about out of 'em.
Sushiwritr: Whew!
Sushiwritr: Fingers typed to the bone.
Rhyssa2: Okay, then I would like to welcome our newest member NeonDust.
Rhyssa2: Please add him to your mailing lists.
Cafe Mom: Welcome ND
Sushiwritr: : : : : fireworks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Berrins: Shalom!!
Sushiwritr: Will add to list promptly.
NeonDust: Thank you all! :) <---ubiquitous happy face!
Cafe Mom: and a good speller, too!
Cafe Mom: ;-)
Rhyssa2: Amy has a few things to say about next week's meeting
Sushiwritr: I see why Neon wants more action in my tale. Think "screenplay." ;-)
NeonDust: Cafe M, have me good spells, me bad spells...:)
Berrins: Perhaps James's mother ran away, leaving his two sisters to be raised by their father...
Sushiwritr: Can I mention one more thing?
Strebe: LOL NeonDust (fuddy AOL connection. Sigh)
Sushiwritr: I kind of "cheated" on the plot of this story.
Mstrebe: No kidding.
Berrins: How so?
NeonDust: What!!!
Strebe: No. You plagiarized???
Cafe Mom: uh-oh....you didn't use Plotto, did you?
Sushiwritr: Only from Life.
Amylf1: <confession, Paul?>
Strebe: Okay. Gosh. I thought it might have been Somerset Maugham.
Sushiwritr: As they say on TV, this was "based on an actual incident."
Mstrebe: What were you selling?
Berrins: was it based on an actual base?
Amylf1: <one of the fellows is you?>
Sushiwritr: Improbable as it all seems, it really happened.
NeonDust: :::based....Base....hmmmn...:)
Sushiwritr: Almost 20 years ago.
Strebe: ROFL So much for it's not possible
Sushiwritr: The base was in Utah.
Cafe Mom: BUT...this is my suggestion. Just because it really happened, doesn't mean it's a story.
Cafe Mom: You have to add conflict
NeonDust: Were you selling candy?
Sushiwritr: True, and, yes.
Sushiwritr: Not candy, in fact.
Berrins: And you still have all your own teeth? Selling toothbrushes with the candy?
Sushiwritr: So SOME of it was made up.
Berrins: The brittle truth
Sushiwritr: It was another, home-made sort of product. hard to describe.
NeonDust: <--bought 'candy'...always inhaled... :)
Sushiwritr: (have all my teeth) :-)
Amylf1: cookie/candy... like
Mstrebe: Give it a shot.
Sushiwritr: Now I can jazz it up!
Cafe Mom: dope?
Amylf1: well... can we take a turn to other things?
NeonDust: Sushi, or maybe...blues...it up? :)
Strebe: No wonder I was bemused by the point of it...
Sushiwritr: Then I WOULD still be in "no daylight" territory!
Amylf1: it's now the hour of bewitching... and I have to cover a few things..
NeonDust: lol
Sushiwritr: Amy?
Berrins: Religious bread dough- still waiting for the second rising
Amylf1: next week is ShereeBee
Amylf1: please have your questions ready for her..
Amylf1: and I guess it'll have to be on some sort of protocol..
Sushiwritr: Yes--like, will you sign me on please?
Amylf1: LOL
Strebe: :-)
NeonDust: Please elucidate..e-mail me?
Amylf1: <read her bio... she's not into sci fi>
Sushiwritr: Hope it isn't a madhouse like the Clancy session.
Sushiwritr: sigh!
Amylf1: the other thing is...
Amylf1: in the event she can't get online..
Amylf1: becuz of the problems with access...
Amylf1: there needs to be an alternate plan for the evening..
Amylf1: Debbie..
Rhyssa2: Next critique will be for Matthew's session on 02/03/97.
Rhyssa2: Sorry Amy I had that one ready to go.
Amylf1: ok
NeonDust: Rhyssa2 is on de ball!
Rhyssa2: Alternate plan...any ideas?
Cafe Mom: a week off
Sushiwritr: Perhaps Matt could submit now.
Cafe Mom: to write our contest stories
Sushiwritr: If the agent does not arrive, we could do the live crit then.
Amylf1: when's the contest?
Cafe Mom: hey, good question...when is the contest?
Berrins: Good idea Paul.
Amylf1: you mean Matt's work?
Sushiwritr: Yes.
NeonDust: <--ready to submit my slab of life...keep us going for weeks..
Cafe Mom: Neon, you get one hour. LOL
Sushiwritr: Neon? Brave man!
NeonDust: LOL! :)
Rhyssa2: I would like to keep Matt's date firm.
Skizholmes: Enjoyed. See ya'll next week.
Cafe Mom: Matt? You up for that?
Sushiwritr: Thanks, Skiz.
Amylf1: thanks for coming...
Rhyssa2: Bye Thanks for joining us.
NiteSandra: It's been interesting but I have to go. Nite.
Sushiwritr: Welcome back, JD and Sandra, as well. :-)
Jdfogg: Hi :-)
Amylf1: what about topics we'd like to discuss..
Sushiwritr: nite, Nite.
Amylf1: well... I have another appt. online in 'bout five minutes...
Strebe: This connection is impossible. I gotta log off. Thanks Paul, and also Debbie and Amy...
Amylf1: bye
Rhyssa2: Bye Amy, Daan, and All
WZML: does anyone have an agent
Sushiwritr: Thanks, everyone.
Jdfogg: Sushi, what is happening here this hour?
Berrins: Goodnight daan and Deb
GUITAR 762: Thanks for letting me sit in gang. See you next week.
Amylf1: night all...
Sushiwritr: I believe this is the last scheduled crit or conference session.
Berrins: Sweet peanut brittle dreams, Amy
NeonDust: Rhyssa2, your first hosting went very well. I thought
Sushiwritr: After comes free chat.
Rhyssa2: Closing log :) I remembered!
Sushiwritr: The intellegence level thereof varies greatly from week to week.
Jdfogg: LOL
Rhyssa2: Thanks Neon
NeonDust: :)
Sushiwritr: So, agent, then Matt, then Neon?
Rhyssa2: Well, I'm out of here. Will send the log out. Yep. Paul looks good to me
NeonDust: Seeya, Debbie!
Sushiwritr: All may speak!!!
Cafe Mom: night
NeonDust: Sushiwritr, well put!
Sushiwritr: Goodnight, all.
NeonDust: niters, Paul..regards to Fujiko
Sushiwritr: Goodnight, all.
Onesuchone: What do you write?
Sushiwritr: sci-fi, shorts, opinion pieces.
Berrins: One- sushi's submission. He wrote a short story, "Oasis", which we all wrote critiques
Sushiwritr: Got to go.
1/20/97 8:08:18 PM Closing "Chat Log* 1/20/97"
