I have an idea for a book based on "it worked out for the best".A book composed of real life and fiction with poems or musings and written by different authors.The common theme is it worked out for the best and of course ending in a way that really wasn't the best.It's about showing how we see things that others may view as harmless and in some cases what some may find good and how they effect us in sometimes fatal ways.It could be dedicated to those who it didn't workout to be the best for.Storys could be about any subject under the two T's (TS/Tg) and could involve murder or suicide.Any profits could go to a charity set up to raise awareness.Please let me know your opinions on this idea and if you would be interested.Amy
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Sounds like
a wonderful idea... I don't know if I'd be interested or not, what with all the irons I already have in the fire, though.
If...
and, given my track record of stories-started-vs.-completed-pieces this is a big if, Amy...
anything comes of my diary piece written from the POV a kid going through "reparative therapy",
I will submit it to this project. The story as I envision it is very chilling, ending in much the same way
as 1984, with the narrator coming to "love Big Brother", glad that he is cured of his gender dysphoria;
but it would be written in such a way that the reader can see it was no cure at all but total brainwashing, and looks on with horror. I was tinkering with it, but then I read your IT ALL WORKED OUT FOR THE BEST,
and your story said just about everything I had wanted to say with this one. It would not be "fun" to write,
but I'll turn up the heat a notch on the backburner where it currently sits & see what happens...
~~~hugs, Laika
What borders on pure insanity?
Canada and Mexico.
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interested
But like Edeyn I have a few too many irons in the fire as well. I even had an idea like Laika's but a sci-fi dystopia version. So I can tell you a definite maybe.
hugs!
grover
Amy
I'm not sure about the market for this, but it certainly would fill a need.
I only question its viability because of the few people who seem to want to read stories that discuss suicide.
If you want, feel free to use my story "It Brings On many Changes" as part of this anthology.
Good luck.
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
It's not really about the suicide and murder
It's about what we as TG/Ts people see as a cause for our self induced/taken at the hands of another situation.Identifying those things that cause this to happen and writing storys based on the different causes themed around it worked out for the best which is sadly to say what some people think and doing it in a way that lays the baggage upon those who think that ways feet.Another words not letting them get away with it.Thank's so far to those who've responded Amy
Definitely worth doing
I have no doubt that it would be worth doing and worth reading.
I'll try to contribute... being one who tends to write "whee! I'm a girl!" type stories, it will be a stretch, but it's a very appealing challenge.
Kaleigh Way
Maybe
Edeyn has a project going she would like me to contribute to, I am teaming up with Itinerant and Bob Arnold on continuing major crossovers into Timeout. I have not posted a Timeout since this winter desipte having sevral, nearly finished. And I owe Angela Rasch a nearly yearlong delayed review of her murder mysteryand RAS a test read of a great magic story.
Then there is Glacier Girl II delayed over a year and a half plus possible followupps to How to Edit Yourself, Sgt Joe, Conversion Tables Zwei and Cristmas Eve. And I have emailed a bit with Holly about a possible MORFS story. And I may owe someone a look see at a fanfic of my Whateley fanfic involving two smilodons.
Maybe.
Ahhhhhh!!!!!!!
John in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
Irons and fires
My problem isn't having too many irons in fires at the moment--it's more a case of having a pile of rain-soaked logs and a book of wet matches. And I can't remember where I left the irons anyway. But if lightning should strike I would be honored to contribute.
I do remember an excellent short story in this vein posted over on Stardust a couple of years back (ah yes, here it is--"Correctable Developmental Anomaly," by Rachel Greenham). You might contact Rachel about including that one.
a few years back
There was a wedding invite, a church and a wall of disapproval. Later, questions and anger. No violence, just bigotry and quiet sorrow. It's a possibility.
Kristina