One night, nearly a year ago, I was lying in bed with my boyfriend, Dancing in Socks Guy. We were nattering away about this and that, and somehow the conversation wended its way to the ever-fascinating subject of grilled cheese sandwiches and the various things one can add to them.
I said I liked to put dill pickle slices on mine. He turned to me, gave me the exact same look I'd give to someone who said their favorite food was Kitten Pate on Toast Points and said, "Get out of this bed!"
He's been making fun of that ever since. But that's okay because I make fun of him for other stuff.
Thus, when I decided to start a personal blog grilledcheesewithpickles made sense :)
So, what is this? Why am I bothering with my own blog?
For the past two years or so I have maintained a site where I make fun of a certain comic strip. Much of that comes in the form of what I call 'foe fiction' -- it's not FAN fiction, because I mock the hell out of it. I create stories loosely based on the strip's characters, most of which are novella-to-novel length. I've written five of them so far, which is amazing to me. That's like writing five books.
Which brings me back to why I'm doing this -- I'm writing real fiction as well. I have a long way to go before I am ready to submit anything for publication (note to Lynn Johnston, it takes a while) so I thought I'd put various bits and pieces up here for people to read and comment on. That's assuming anyone at all will actually read anything I write here ... blogs were so 2005.
Elle
I said I liked to put dill pickle slices on mine. He turned to me, gave me the exact same look I'd give to someone who said their favorite food was Kitten Pate on Toast Points and said, "Get out of this bed!"
He's been making fun of that ever since. But that's okay because I make fun of him for other stuff.
Thus, when I decided to start a personal blog grilledcheesewithpickles made sense :)
So, what is this? Why am I bothering with my own blog?
For the past two years or so I have maintained a site where I make fun of a certain comic strip. Much of that comes in the form of what I call 'foe fiction' -- it's not FAN fiction, because I mock the hell out of it. I create stories loosely based on the strip's characters, most of which are novella-to-novel length. I've written five of them so far, which is amazing to me. That's like writing five books.
Which brings me back to why I'm doing this -- I'm writing real fiction as well. I have a long way to go before I am ready to submit anything for publication (note to Lynn Johnston, it takes a while) so I thought I'd put various bits and pieces up here for people to read and comment on. That's assuming anyone at all will actually read anything I write here ... blogs were so 2005.
Elle
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