urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dbarrdbarrdbarrdonnabarr@hotmail.comdbarr2008-04-29T16:27:34Zurn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dbarr:3258Blogging -- The Writer's Life2008-04-29T16:25:41Z2008-04-29T16:27:34Z<p>I've got a creator blog over at <a href="http://www.donnabarr.blogspot.com">www.donnabarr.blogspot.com</a> It's a public blog, so no one has to register or log in. <br /><br />I'm scratching my head over what to say about my writing process. It's basically: hear stuff, see stuff, make my characters do and say it. It's not hard to make any of it funny, because practically everything humans do is ridiculous, if not amusing.<br /><br />If you don't think so, the next time you see a human doing something scary, bold or hectic, picture a chimp. The moves are the same.<br /><br />So is the screaming.</p><p> </p>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dbarr:2886Writer's Block: Friends Forever2008-03-30T14:50:58Z2008-03-30T14:50:58Z<div class='appwidget appwidget-qotd' id='LJWidget_5'>
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What do I bring most to a friendship? Loyalty. For years. Through knee-deep crap and craziness. But I don't have many people I would count as my closest friends, so it's not a major chore.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dbarr:2780Writer's Block: No Laughing Matter2008-03-29T18:42:46Z2008-03-29T18:42:46Z<div class='appwidget appwidget-qotd' id='LJWidget_6'>
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Nothing -- if you know what you're talking about. If you're Jewish, you can make the pogrom joke. If you're black, you can use the baby(crap) description. If you're a woman, you can say, "Stupid twat!" Otherwise, you will just look undipt. You don't want to sound like a kid learning to curse. Or the writers of "Deadwood," whose characters swear like 19th century British sailors, instead of white folks on the American frontier.<br /> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dbarr:2491Name that Manga2008-03-29T18:36:59Z2008-03-29T18:36:59Z Contest: Manga the German Military Journal Entry: <span title="1h 26m ago">Sat Mar 29, 2008, 10:08 AM</span> <div class="text pp journaltext"><keeper for="Smoothie.thumbs"></keeper><smoothie q="journal:17571120 by:rummelhart" qx="0" label="Journal: Contest: Manga the German Military" offset="0"></smoothie>More Desert Peach free downloads at <a href="http://www.wowio.com/"><font color="#3b5a4a">[link]</font></a> (Search: Donna Barr).<br /><br />Looking for JUST the Japanese word to describe the interest in the German army* I find among so many of my gender (regardless of their meat body). It NEEDS to be a Manga genre! <br /><br />The goal is to push my own work as the classic of the genre, and drag along anybody else who wants to blitz the Asian market, with a known genre. The more bees, the more flowers! (Even if they are little flowers with Stahlhelm or Offiziersmuetze).<br /><br />Whoever comes up with JUST the right term -- including katakana and kanji -- will be given credit and thanks in my next book, and a link to their art site. Please don't be afraid of introducing me to all the details of Manga parlance.<br /><br />Get out those Japanese dictionaries and go down in Manga history. Or flames, if you have the Noble Death mindset.<br /><br />Deadline: April 30th.<br /><br />*For you obsessive types, this could include extra terms for German Army/Gay, German Military, German Military/Cutey, etc. We Germans are anal and proud of it!<br /><br />Home: <a href="http://www.donnabarr.com/"><font color="#3b5a4a">[link]</font></a><br />More books: <a href="http://www.lulu.com/desertpeach"><font color="#3b5a4a">[link]</font></a></div>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dbarr:2249Klahowya!2005-05-27T21:59:07Z2005-05-27T21:59:07ZHey...<br /><br />Dan and I -- for absolutely no reason we can think of -- are slowly picking up the Chinook Jargon.<br /><br />For those of you who wish to join me in writing totally illegible email:<br /><br /><a href="http://chinookjargon.home.att.net">http://chinookjargon.home.att.net</a><br /><br />Spose alki mika mamook tenas stick wawa. Nawitka?<br /><br />(Which probably isn't right... but I bet you'll be able to understand it anyway. Chinook jargon is a bunch of words you string together to make new meanings. It can be quite expressive. Everybody spoke it -- Indian, Europeans and Americans, Chinese -- everybody. Kumtucks?)<br /><br />Tum-tum kahkwa chick-chick.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dbarr:1976Initial offering2005-05-27T19:51:27Z2005-05-27T19:51:27ZOh, I nearly forgot the first drawing BonnieBlue commissioned:<br /><br /><a name="cutid1"></a><img src="http://www.webcomicsnation.com/users/dbarr/Peeled.jpg" alt="Peeled." /> <br /><br />I do not know whose hands those are.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dbarr:1692Deep breath2005-05-26T23:53:02Z2005-05-26T23:53:02ZAnd here's the one Bonnie DID hyperventilate over.<br /><br /><a name="cutid1"></a><img src="http://www.webcomicsnation.com/users/dbarr/Tired.jpg" alt="Tired" /> <br /><br />He doesn't know we're there....urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dbarr:1289Tootsies2005-05-26T23:51:31Z2005-05-26T23:51:31ZOkay, so here's the one with the bare feet.<br /><br /><a name="cutid1"></a><img src="http://www.webcomicsnation.com/users/dbarr/Barefoot.jpg" alt="Barefoot" /> <br /><br />I think this is Bonnie's fav.<br /><br />But then, she didn't hyperventilate over this one...urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dbarr:1067Posting pretties2005-05-26T21:14:26Z2005-05-26T21:14:26ZOkay.... with the help of all my lovely LiveJournal friends, I'm trying the first not-very-naughty (but tasty, according to Bonnie) image.<br /><br />If it works, and I've followed all ettiqette properly, then we can add more...<br /><br />(I'm hoping the cut-tag works, too, for those of you AT WORK.)<br /><br /><a name="cutid1"></a><img src="http://www.webcomicsnation.com/users/dbarr/Cherries.jpg" alt="Cherries" /><br /><br />And WHO invented "work ethic?"<br /><br />Bet it wasn't the peasants...urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dbarr:1003Tease Tease Tease2005-05-26T16:14:29Z2005-05-26T16:14:29ZChristy says I can run my own red light district.<br /><br />Bonnie... wanna post one of those drawings...?<br /><br />Wait a minute... can I post peetchers on this thing?<br /><br />(The anti-geek...).<br /><br />(Maybe I should just let BB post the one she likes and make appropriate squealing noises....)urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dbarr:477Up and running2005-05-17T00:48:47Z2005-05-17T00:48:47ZWell, this is my first Livejournal post.<br /><br />I like the goat.