(or): Love is not a part time job…
Love is not just a word. It is not just an emotion that you feel. Love is what you do. Love is like a job. If you say the word ‘love’ without backing it up with actions, it is like saying the word ‘work’ and expecting that some actual work is getting done. Work isn’t just a word. It is all the things you do when you are at work. It takes time and effort. You have to do stuff.
So you go to ‘work’ and you do ‘work’ all day, and then they pay you money. Love is like that. You have to do stuff. It takes effort and thought. It takes time. But the rewards are much more worthwhile and far longer lasting than the rewards you get from your job. Put some effort into it. Maybe you will get a promotion… or even a raise… ha! I kill me!
Now go out there and make ‘love’ ‘work’!
Pouring My Art Out 
More succinctly, love is an action not a feeling.
I padded it a little.
And what if what you love is your work?
That is just sick and wrong… unless you are a hooker…
Real classy… I leave you with this. Picture a man. Or a woman. Picture a man who used to be a woman. Picture an inter-racial bisexual relationship with a fascist film director. Picture a movie shoot in a jungle gone wrong, and a flood of water washing the hero of our journey into a deep crevice, in which live a population of sentient ants. Picture surgery one small ant-bite at a time, as they reconstruct the man but decimate the woman.
Sorry, I pictured that yesterday.
How’s it end, smart guy?
You don’t know, I can’t tell you… I am using the edited chapters you sent right now… you ripped me a ne one, but in a good way. I think I used all the changes but one in the first chapter.
k cool. I edit harsh. i think adverbs are evil. think the chapters were all well-written, just tweaking around the core stuff to emphasize the core stuff (which is good). just a bit of filler in there, so i hacked.
Ha… I was going for word count
That’s what she said… kidding. Hope the edits are somewhat helpful, I like to be constructive as possible. But I don’t really know what tone your other chapters may inherit by the time others are finished with them (Anasera and I chatted about this – what if all your 3-chapter bundles sound different from each other in tone?).
You do tend to cut off my extra bits at the end of lines. I overdo those. I hate a sentence that doesn’t have a ‘he said’ or a ‘she explained’ with it either in front or back. That bit at the very end of chapter three, I purposely used a different word each time as a sort of dance.
I really agree with you here. Most people don’t like to admit that any relationship, even a great one, is a transaction. You give something and you get something back.
It drives me crazy when someone complains about their partner and says:
“They lie to me, insult me, don’t consider my feelings, forget my birthday, never cook or clean, are mean to my friends, and I’m pretty sure they’re stealing from me.”
“So why are you with them?”
“Because they LOVE me.”
You gotta love people…
And be prepared to put in some unpaid overtime, too.
Just because the boss says she wants to try you out in a new position doesn’t mean you are getting a raise or a promotion!