Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 01:09:22 EST From: all rise! Subject: Re: [WRITERS] FILL:Paula, Monica, and Bill, Anthony :) On Fri, 3 Apr 1998 21:24:01 -0800, Nora Mulligan wrote: :) We can argue until the cows come home about what kind of person Clinton :) is and what kind of person Jones is and so forth and so on, but let's :) get the facts straight about what happened in court, okay? well, not exactly. see, now and then I get to fretting about this being a workshop about writing, and point out that we are neither in a court of law nor in a debating society nor, indeed, in any kind of forum where boisterous argumentation and similar swashblusters of the pen defiant and the keyboard malicious are particularly germane.... There are indeed forums where one could argue until the cows come home about the personas (public, private, real or merely concoctions of the press?) one may feel Clinton and Jones are associated with (please note that I am somewhat leery of the verb "is" in this kind of statement, as it asserts a rather unlikely relationship of "person" and individual). One may even be afforded the opportunity of dealing with the "so forth and so on" in those fora. Unfortunately, this is not one. This is a workshop for writing. thanks tink OWC: As an exercise, try identifying the characteristics or other features which people are using to identify the "persons" of Clinton and Jones. Write a short scene using those characteristics to show us something about a character--pro or con. Then rewrite it to show us the reverse, using the same characteristic(s). Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 01:14:28 EST From: just tink! Subject: Re: FILL:Paula, Monica, etc... My most sincere apologies. I was drafting a note intended for myself and got tired enough to decide to knock off and sleep on it. However, I believe I just sent that note to the list (instead of to myself). Again, this note was not intended for release yet. My apologies for allowing it to escape at this time. tink (who is going to go to bed)