Tired and frustrated

[beandelphiki]

I keep wondering why I have giftedadults still listed. The community drives me fucking bonkers.


So the editor of Vex loves my shot of the ground from 525 feet up on the Calgary Tower's glass floor and apparently plans to use it as a double spread. That's great.

He also wants me to re-write the story. I saw that coming, really. But how do you write something sorta dirty/juvenile/Maxim-ish about the CALGARY TOWER?

I'm blanking so hardcore. I said I'd have it in by today (he asked for Monday) but that doesn't look possible right now.

What's dirty about the Calgary Tower? What could you POSSIBLY want to say about it in a Maxim-like magazine?

GAAAH!

Comments

[ratkrycek.livejournal.com]

Just off the top of my sleep-deprived little head...

1. Towers=phallic symbols
2. I don't know anything about the Calgary Tower. But I've been up both the Space Needle and the CN Tower. Maybe two people meet and have some sort of tryst there? Knowing each other previously not necessary, but could be cool, too - your call.

D'ya wanna write a Maxim juvenile story - oh, you said Maxim, not Penthouse forum letter (I will admit to having read some of those in college).

Um, er... start off with, "I took this picture of the Calgary Tower. Then my editor told me he wanted me to write a piece to go along with the picture for you fine people. Thing was, I couldn't think of a thing to write. What is there about the Calgary Tower that could possibly be interesting? I mean, it's just a tower, right? But something grabbed me about it and made me take that picture. Maybe it was the way the light hit it at that particular angle, but something engaged my vision about it. Now I wondered how I could get my brain involved. Kind of like when you first start dating a beautiful girl. At first all that matters are her looks and white teeth, the way she makes other guys look at you and wonder what you've got that they don't, to be with such a pretty girl.

But pretty soon that wears thin, and you may well find you actually want to talk with her without seeming like a complete idiot, and for many guys, the way they try to impress is by finding out what she's into and talking with her about it. That's why I now needed to do - have a conversation with the Calgary Tower, and find out what it was, if anything, behind the sizzle and flash that had attracted me to it."

Okay. Theres a reason I'm not a freelance writer. But you get the idea - find a hook, do some research - just find some facts and make them entertaining. I dunno. Maybe you'll meet a pretty face there and you can add a hint of pre-Penthouse Forum intrigue in there. Maybe you go on a tour and the person who escorts you up is extremely good looking and single, or, well, you know. Imagine you're writing it for guys who wants to impress the gorgeous architecture major in their dorms. There ya go. ;)

Add how thhey can llok down on the gorgeous girls walking under the glass... or something naughty having to do with the glass. I'm too tired to type anything more coherent just now. ;)

[theclamsman.livejournal.com]

I keep wondering why I have [info]giftedadults still listed. The community drives me fucking bonkers.

*joins*

:D

*trolls with fucked up questions/comments* >_>

Like that first entry I read out of the community from that blond broad whose stick up her ass is about 12 inches in diameter. I'd love to write something fucked up, but I might just wait/wade it out to see what other kind of elitest b.s. comes from her fingertips...I'm already laughing about it all.

[siegeengine.livejournal.com]

Don't know the mag, or the tower, really... but didn't the editor say anything about what he or she is looking for that's different from what you had already written? Or... were "juvenile/dirty/maxim-like" the specific guidelines? Just curious, mostly.

WTG, btw on getting published!!

[siegeengine.livejournal.com]

oh, just off the top of my head, too, ye might say that maybe it's a romantic spot to bring a date and look at the sunset over the skyline or something like that. Possibly, if there's some kind of broom closet there, or something, a person or 2 could join the "600 foot" club or however high it is.

er.. anyway.

[beandelphiki.livejournal.com]

!!!!! You're brill! I love you! The observation deck is almost that high....

And yeah, that was pretty much the only guidelines. He actually suggested "tower as a phallic symbol" like ratkrycek said. I think Rat's ideas are great, but the story's only around 200 words, so...

(And that's why I figure I don't have much more guidance - it's really short!)

Plus I have a copy of the magazine, and he said do it like the "Vex files" pages. Actually, I linked the magazine a post or two back...they have an online version, and so does Maxim. I spent most of last night reading Maxim's "So a priest walks into a bar..." jokes hoping for divine inspiration.

[kittystrophy.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to figure out if I knew you... but I don't know. I can't really really remember the QE days all that well. But you're the right age... and went to the right school so I thought I'd say hi... try to figure out if I knew and friend you because I can.
Cheers.
Amy