" ... On May 3, 7:17 am, Molly Brogan <[email protected]>
wrote: ... "

> I need to abstain here, gruff, as this is what I do for a living.

Your statement leaves me puzzled and wondering.  What is it you do for
a living that forces you to abstain from offering a critique.  It
can't be that you're a writer because critiques are something most
writers do well and love doing.  Mayhap it's because you're a vanity
press writer?  I've seen your rankings on Amazon and I seriously doubt
you're making a living from it.

> In the parameters of this forum, I would encourage you to keep working
> through story, and as you do, let go of the identity that you derive
> from it.  We all have our stories to tell and there are so many
> wonderful stories.  In the telling, at some point, we can let go of
> them and move into our potentiality.  What a powerful ending to a good
> story.

I'm sorry Molly but as usual your words are elegant but seem to lack
any real content.  Just exactly what does it mean to let go and move
into potentiality?   My first chapter may not have your elegance but
it certainly is real.  It's flesh and blood, grit and struggle, not
flowery words that melt into vaporous mist at the first contact with
reality.

> An embrace with a thousand arms of compassion straight from my
> heart is the best I can offer.  Good luck to you in this endeavor.

First you tell me to let it go and move on, then you wish me good luck
in my endeavor?  I can't let it go and luck is the hobgoblin of people
who can't make their own way.  That piece I wrote is part and parcel
of who and what I am.  If you couldn't deal with this first chapter
than you certainly won't be able to deal with what follows because it
gets bloodier, grittier and more real than anything I think you could
imagine.  The world is not as vaporous and ethereal as you like to
paint it.  It's much harsher and dirtier.  I also find it hard to let
your thousand arms embrace me.  They are as as unreal as your
perceptions of life.

But that aside, I wish you good luck with your own endeavors.
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