Writerly Ways

I don't have anything to say other than it's been a rough week. I'm at the age where my childhood is dying off. I was not a huge Monkee fan but I was still very sad about Michael Nesmith and then I woke up to the news Anne Rice died

I'll be honest I had a complicated relationship with her fiction and her. In college I loved the first three of her vampire books and thought her erotica was ridiculous (I'm still not over the bound guy lifting a girl by his dick alone) I managed via some people I knew got invited to her infamous New Orleans Halloween parties but could never actually go.

By the time the early 90s rolled around I was getting a bit annoyed with her books. I remember in my senior year of medical school in an externship being at the temporary housing reading in the tub circling how many times she used the word preternatural. (it was insane). Eventually her shooting off her mouth about how she was too good to be edited nad the fact that she obviously wasn't (100 preternaturals later) sort of made me part ways

That said, she did have an impact on my writing style. I'm sad she's gone.

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