Everybody’s a critic!
Here’s my take on life - give the bitter with the sweet. Or sweeten the bitter with the sweet, you know…sweeten the moror with the haroset.
If I have a critical word to impart to someone…like, let’s pretend one of the new nurses I work with totally messed up her med sheet. Should I get all up in her face and say - Hey biatch! You totally effed up this med sheet and I wasted two valuable hours of my time fixing it so you better get your damn act together and shape the hell up! Should I approach her like that? If I stood in her shoes, I’d smack the crap out of me. I much prefer to approach the matter thusly - Hi Meggie, love your hair. That cut really looks good on you and the color brings out the blue in your eyes. Say, I noticed over the weekend that the med sheet for so and so was missing a few items. I straightened everything out with the pharmacy and the family and re-wrote it for you. Do you need some help with these new med sheets? They’re a bit confusing…
I bring this up because I have a friend, and she’s a really good friend, (Gentlemen Prefer Blonds), and every damn time she reads one of my books - which I always comp her - the first thing she says isn’t - Wow! Love the cover! or Damn, girl, that story brought me to tears! or Shit, that was a hot read! It’s always like this…I started your book. There’s a typo on page 23, line 10, or you’ve left a dangling participle on page 59, line 15, or I don’t think that word is the right word for what you’re describing.
Smack.
In other news: I’ve decided to risk the two a.m. newt face dropping. It’s a trade-off. Either I risk a newt or I put up with three cats playing whack-a-mole on my bed all night. I’ll take my chances with the newt.
I’ve developed a major girl-crush on author Donna George Storey, whose short story, Comfort Food, is near mine in The Cougar Book. She doesn’t know it yet, but I’m going to interview her because she is interesting as all hell.
Last but not least - I love this commercial and until Lindsay Lohan filed a lawsuit, it never occurred to me to associate her with it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEXZ2hfD3bU
