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Old 08-18-2005, 01:45 PM   #1
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Would someone care to read a draft about getting angry?

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Old 08-18-2005, 02:29 PM   #2
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re: anger

First, some edits:

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I slam it down and get climb back into my seat to fire the ignition again.
Strike “get”

“teef” ?

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I got to the garage and met with a blonde receptionist who had as much body work done to her as any car this shop had ever seen.
“had had as much body work…”

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Every few minutes she would get up go deliver a message…
Word missing?

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...conciliatory as a eunuch in a strip club.
“an eunuch”

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There was a wooden seat with no cushions was a foot away from me.
Strike 2nd “was”

There’s a few more. I’ll let you find ‘em if you care. I’m enjoying the read.

You show some nice descriptive prowess. You write ambitiously. I am not sure if I found this gratuitously vulgar or not. But I did find a lot of it funny. Real funny. Love the descriptions of the sister’s boyfriend.

Didn’t get the ending. Didn’t quite get the story as a whole either, but it was a fun and entertaining read. Perhaps that is enough.

(Also, Updyke is one of my favorite authors.)
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Old 08-18-2005, 02:39 PM   #3
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Yeah, thanks for catching the words I left out. I think so much faster than I type and take shortcuts without even knowing it!

Basically my aim was to have show that the speaker thought about embarassing the guy and all the macho things he was going to do when in reality he was a meek guy who didn't have any balls to stand up to the obnoxious garage owner. So I guess the speaker's ID told you the parts about smashing the guy's chair and eating his lunch but reality was that he just got yelled at for questioning the owner.

There were other allusions as well, the Updike refernce was my way of foreshadowing an "A&P"-like altercation at the end and how some people with money don't have to answer to anybody.

Sorry if that was too difficult to understand, but that's why I posted it here... I need a bit of direction with my writing.

Thanks a lot for you input, critique, and corrections. I am glad you liked the humor, I am trying to make the adjustment from stand-up comedian to fiction writer.

Thanks again,

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