A new story is up on my shiny new creative thingies page: check out Wag It Forward, a users guide to your latest appendage!
Excerpt from Wag It Forward
The first thing you figure out is that it doesn’t want to slide down your pant leg. I bet that first morning you panicked, and of course you had somewhere you needed to be, and you had to find a way to cover it up right away. So, you tried to thread it down the back of one pant leg and then the other, but it really didn’t want to go, right? The trick –you figure it out eventually- is to let it relax. You could no more pull on a shirt while flexing your biceps then you can pull on a pair of pants with your tail all jacked up. And, just so you know, gentlemen who “dress left” or “dress right” dress to the same side with their tails, know what I mean?
Listen, the deal with the creative thingies page is that the work has to be password protected, unindexable, and as un-public as it can possibly be, while still available to friends and colleagues. There is a lengthy explanation on the page, but in a nutshell, I could email a story to a thousand people in my contact list and it would be considered unpublished, but if I put it on my blog, which is read regularly by a couple dozen people, it can be considered published. That’s big bummer for a gal like me, who wants to share work (and often just fun stuff) and snag a few decent publishing credits, too.
If you want to read what’s there, check out the disclaimer on the page and shoot me an email (lauren b flax at gmail dotdiddlyot com), and I’ll send you the password.
Most of what is there now is available in other places on this blog, except for Wag It Forward.
