I was just pottering about (avoiding writing an essay) when I wandered across an Imaginary Interview written by Robin McKinley. Its not terribley interesting to anyone who is... oh, say, illiterate? Well, it is pointless, but I find her incredbly entertaining! ^^;

...and wanted to reply to things the said. but I cant, because shes famous, so into the diary (mwaha!) it goes!

Take, say, Athaliah. You havent heard of her, have you? No one has except people who know their Old Testament extremely well, including occasional non-believer nut cases like my husband, who likes odd or striking stories. Athaliah was queen of Judah for a while, by virtue of killing a lot of princes after the king conveniently died in battle. They get her later, of course. But the imagination-catching story about her is that after the young surviving prince is brought out of hiding and crowned, she comes alone to the courtyard crowded full of the priests and soldiers that are her betrayers and stops the celebration merely by her presence. Now thats strength of character. - McKinley

We had our celebrations ended that way plenty a time in school. Hell, children's egos are so fragile that if the teacher just stares at them long enough theyll freak out and stop talking (start rocking back and forth perhaps) but hey, theyre quiet! :)

and veering slightly off in a tangent here.... robin hood style...

We are indoctrinated. and the world is going to shite. At least, this suburban developed part of the world we live in. WHAT THE HELL. Do you realise that unless something significant crumbles up really really badly there will never ever be another robin hood? Can you imagine the 'keep off the grass' signs in Sherwood forest? Trying to run a revolution from... where? Central park? Your garage???? NO ONE fights for the poor, and if you gave to them I am so sure the tax department's gonna get you one way or the other, not to mention the fact that while some people may applaud you for stealing from the rich, you're still going to get fucked over because you left your DNA on the scene and no one's going to do jack to help you. Yeah sure funny stunt... that will end you in jail playing whoopsies with the scary folk who don't like people who play Robin Hood, because theres no respect for someone who not only stole something simply to give away, but got caught and ACTUALLY made the lives of those poor bastards worse if they accepted the mula.

So what about us childer growing up without a cause? Lets go raise ethiopian babies to be good christians! Did those infomercials never hear of the stolen generation??? Australia got done for attempting to do that....

We could sail the world exploring... oh wait, satellites. All discovered. Right. Forgot. So WHAT??? Dont mean to do the futility speech but if I don't want to get locked into the office building bureacracy until im 40 I'd better start off on my grand adventures soon....

So...? What? Anyone ever think about inventions? Ever think about when they happened? Think about it: with electricty and the assembly line came the age of almost all the gadgets I'm going to encounter in an average day. All of them, if you count the machines that make everything these days. So where are the new ones? How long ago did we achieve space flight? So WHY isn't anyone up there yet??? God, I have been brought up on scifi expecting a freakin space station to be the next logical step. So whats the delay? Money?

Yes of course. Because the world has no Robin Hood anymore. Who's going to pay for the advancement of the entire human race? You? Microsoft? The Government? Who's Government?!? Sure, we'd all be charming about that... just a fucking huge rise in taxes.. lovely, no, we dont mind!

We do. We arent Robin Hoods, the very notion of contributing our hard won bread and honey to a far distant cause is foreign and unacceptable. Why? I read a statement recently about capitolism, and how fear of poverty keeps us working classes where we belong... but I'm not one for anything to do with anything that might force me to discuss communism, so lets whoosh over that shall we, and move on?

We're locked into this litle cycle where our entire existence revolves around and depends on these tiny chits of paper and metal. Think about the children? Sound familiar? You may think you are, I mean, you're securing their financial situation, the environment they grow up in... but where the fuck are we growing to?

I'm a kid, (that isn't technically true, but it almost is!) and as far as I can see the next logical step is upwards and outwards, but all us mudgrubbers back down here are too scared to front up the money... and were going to suffer for it.

And while I can see with every little inch of my romantic section of brain, that a Robin Hood is SOOO necessary, theres no way I could or would drop the system I'm in to do it. Hell, all the forests here about burnt down a couple years back, and our garage is full of junk.

/rant.

Lovely, a diary :)

Well, Im going to be working on getting together an ezine here on writersco! All writers are welcome as staff or guest writers, and everyone who has any ideas... please! join us!

So far Im thinking to keep it very writing focussed, with exerpts from writersco member pieces, columns on anything from advice, (personal or professional) to weekly tutorials on writing styles and tips, to updates on the outside world of writing: book tours, publishers, new books from the old greats.. anything. We could also add in writerco poetry sections, information on publishers or getting published, messages or interviews from those who have been published (oh holiest of holy!) and anything the writers here want to see really!

If youre interested in helping at all or have suggestions for a name please contact me!!