http://blufzms.gather.com Recent Articles on Gather by Alice Bontecou en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:09:09 GMT 2010-01-04T02:09:09Z en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 http://www.gather.com/images/header/logo_gather.gif http://www.gather.com/ http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977285066 You can see my plot here:http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977284475&nav=Namespace As it says there, I am trying to figure out a way to make the plot more creative: essentially, . . . Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:04:28 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977285066 Alice Bontecou 2008-03-15T15:04:28Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977284475 Charlie (short for Charlotte) Mallery is an aspiring teenage writer with severe writer's block.   She doesn't like people and can't relate to them terribly well, so writing . . . Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:45:30 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977284475 Alice Bontecou 2008-03-14T18:45:30Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977284207 As some of you may know, I am intending to participate in Script Frenzy this April.   Script Frenzy is a web-based writing event in which each participant is required to write a 20,000-word script . . . Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:00:06 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977284207 Alice Bontecou 2008-03-14T14:00:06Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977283874 She lays a hand on my shoulder. "Ain't the sky beautiful tonight?" I don't respond. Sure, the pink and blue, almost melancholy sunset is indeed beautiful. But I shrug . . . Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:56:51 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977283874 Alice Bontecou 2008-03-13T23:56:51Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977283870 I was nearly certain that someone had somehow affixed a cinderblock to my heart without killing me or me noticing. The heaviness I felt in my heart was far to great to merely be a figment of my imagination. . . . Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:49:07 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977283870 Alice Bontecou 2008-03-13T23:49:07Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977281942 She was definitely not normal. Then again, she was currently living in a mental institution, and psychiatric patients typically weren't normal. But this girl was far different than the other inhabitants . . . Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:52:06 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977281942 Alice Bontecou 2008-03-11T19:52:06Z