Just in case anyone else has this same question that someone emailed me (email is in the lower part of the sidebar under “contact”):
I’m a new reader of your blog and I’m confused by some of the terms you use, like MB and pippa. Can you tell me what these are?
Absolutely, new reader, and welcome! I’ve tried to explain some things here, in my admittedly horrible, cringe-inducing “About” page.
Eh. It’s a work in progress.
To me that means, if any of you want to work on it for me, it will probably progress. I myself have flappy-armed anxiety about it and try not to look at it because — I’m not kidding — it causes me pain. I’ve worked on it off and on for months now and the more I fiddle, the worse it gets. I literally cannot write an About page. I just cannot.
But, thank you, new reader, and I hope that page helps answer some of your questions.
Hard to describe you in a couple of paragraphs!! Don’t worry the About page is fine.
I cannot remember not knowing what Tracey meant by pippa or who MB was. I also don’t ever remember being told. 🙂
I think it’s an organic process. You just absorb the Tracey-ness of it over time. Like learning a foreign language through immersion… Except you made perfect sense to me pretty much immediately.
Hahahahaha, thank you, Lynne. I guess I feel like the whole blog is my “About” page, but that’s not helpful to someone who’s a new reader.
Ack. Just …. I have a block about writing that. It’s like when an interviewer says, “Tell me about yourself” and you just want to die.
Marisa — “Like learning a foreign language through immersion.” Hahahahaha! Yes, you’ll get there eventually!
I honestly forgot where “pippa” had come from, but the memory made me laugh when you explained it.
Best Thing Ever.
A contest. Tracey picks a theme, for example, England.
The readers all choose a Best Thing Ever for that theme.
One per customer, first come, first served.
Then she randomly assigns everyone a constestant in a tournament event, eg. Wimbledon.
Your player’s fate is your fate.
As you advance or are eliminated, you must prepare a winner’s or loser’s speech in- this is the whole point- character>/i> as your Best Thing.
I think that should be an entry, edited as if Tracey wrote it.
Because as you can see, Sal has trouble with tags.
damn
New readers probably want to know who “Gammie” and “Peaches” are, too.
I know my parents never understood why I yelled, “Beefy Peach!” at the TV during “Dancing with the Stars.”