Another writing rant

I don't know how people do it. How do writers write drabbles? How can they create this wonderful story with so little words?

I only wonder because my Fiction Class is throwing together this chapbook as an end of the year project. We all have to submit something. Now that the layout has been sorted out, the request has come down: one story, 350 words or less. 350 words or less? Gah. We had to do something similar at the beginning of the year with these writing exercises. We couldn't go a word over 350 and it really bugged me. I rarely came up with anything decent.

And here's something else to boot. The chapbook is going to be sold at some Creative Writing gala thing in April (where I'll have to read something for two minutes but that's a post for another time). I doubt many copies will be sold outside of the class, but the thought of having my crappy story out there for other people to read is just... depressing. Or scary. I think I'll go with scary.

User name meme

This meme brought to you by blueanddollsome.

Rule: Post the explanation of where your user name came from. Then tag FIVE users whose explanations you would like to hear. If you are tagged, post your explanation to your page.

Here's goes: Locker_Monster is actually my back-up user name. When I was starting out on the Buffy posting boards, I went with Ness since it was simple and my nickname. Of course, the only problem with Ness is that it's often taken so as I started to branch out I needed something else to go by. So (stay with me here) Ness is part of Loch Ness Monster and going from there I went with a great line from the Buffy ep "I Only Have Eyes For You", where Xander gets attacked by a hand in his locker and when Willow asked what happened, Xander replied, "I'll have you know I was just accosted by some kind of, um, locker monster" and Giles' response was "Loch Ness Monster?" Hopefully that made sense. So basically I sort of got to keep my main user name but at the same time made it relate to Buffy.

As for tagging people, I choose everyone else on my flist since I haven't bothered to make that many friends yet. So I inflict this meme on the following: browncoat_2x2, lorelei_frolick, newnumber6, and sl_podcast.