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To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (65052)	3/23/2004 7:22:29 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

You know something that really irks me? I realized rereading that chapter, that I changed our phone message after the Lauren call to say, "You have reached 329***. I hated that I had somehow been remiss and had my hand slapped. I had about ten copies of the book bound for the boys and family members. It is about 36000 words, however many pages that works out to-- I never have figured out how to add numbers to my pages on Works. It's called Voices From the Back Seat. I have three others also bound for the boys: Hyacinth Garden- a semi-fiction based very loosely on my mother's death (sadly, I did not really have an affair with the handsome doctor- I need to remember to tell them that), and two books that I did for the three-day novel writing contest. Croc introduced me to this contest, and she and I have done this two years in a row together and it is an amazing experience- you write for three days straight over LAbor Day . There is a point you reach where reality just isn't anymore. ONly the book exists. The first one (The Last Summer of Mary Alice*)is Youth Fiction. I used X's teenage daughter as my resource and she was great; we e-mailed back and forth about boys and music and THINGS. I was under strict orders not to tell X anything she told me. The last one (Julep) is again semi-fiction based on my experiences as a social service worker in the mountains, some of which I had talked about on SI way way back in 96! So you can see that SI inspired, nurtured, and was there in a lot of different ways--like some sort of incubator for many of us. I believe that several people found from the exchanges a belief in themselves as writers to actually try. I know one person no longer here who is completing a novel right now. I wonder if The Boys had any idea now many strange things would emerge from SI when they started it.