Episode 4: Screw The Man

FWW — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:00:39 -0500

Oh, God...I'm going to admit it. I don't usually tell people. It often generates a rolling of the eyes or a patronizing smile, but it's the truth — I'm a goddamn writer. Now granted it's not my primary source of income; that continues to be party planning and sucking the life out of Jeffrey's bank account. But how many writers actually do it for the money, right?

I'm a writer of poems and little fairy tales that I hide under the bed but what I've always really wanted to do is write the kind of big, sweeping love story that makes people think about the romantic possibility in life. Kind of ironic for a divorced woman but there you go. Irony is my middle name. (Actually, Ronnie is my middle name, short for Veronica, after yes, the famed Betty and Veronica duo.

My father had a thing for pin-ups who couldn't talk back which might explain a few of my problems.) The Veronica of it all may also explain why I wrote comics for a while and a long time ago, when I was in my "only wear black phase" (a phase I have every intention of revisiting this holiday season) I did this graphic novel. It's about this really smart little girl who always wanted a tail and then one day she gets one and it like, seriously changes her life because now she basically has a third arm and can get three times as much done as anyone else (you know, hold a cocktail, smoke a clove cigarette and eat a canapé at the same time) which makes her a super girl. I'm not famous or anything but girls and their moms really liked the book and there's all this talk about taking the three-armed super girl (her name is Willa) and making her into a doll.

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Episode 4: Screw The Man