GPyrenees's Profile
| Penname: | GPyrenees |
| Country: | United States |
| Web address: | www.bedroom-to-courtroom.blogspot.com |
| Favorite book: | Presumed Innocent, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Verdict, Fatal Vision, Lonesome Dove |
| Member type: | Author |
| Member Since: | Nov 8, 2011 |
| Bio: | Lawyers generally love to be feared, they love to win, and they don't mind being hated as long as the money's all right. Me, I have to admit that I kinda love to be feared (ooooh, what a rush!), I really really REALLY love to win (ooooh yeah, an even bigger rush!), but - honestly? I'm so sick of being disliked. It hit me smack in the face, when I realized that my friends were worrying whenever they got an email from me. Wondering if I was the bearer of bad news. Okay, okay, I get it. Being a matrimonial lawyer since the late '80's could explain that. On the other hand, a couple of decades of handling high-conflict, high net worth divorces can yield some pretty nifty story ideas for anyone with a creative neuron remaining in an otherwise numb brain. So I don't have a clue why most lawyers-turned-writers come primarily from the criminal law bar (i.e., prosecutors and defense lawyers), or they're lawyers who practiced law for maybe thirty days (yes, of course, I'm exaggerating - make that five or ten years, which still leaves 'em in diapers as far as I'm concerned). Got me. It makes no sense, especially when the matrimonial bar deals with sex, drugs and rock and roll just about EVERY DAY. : ) Anyway, I've spent the past few years unlearning how to write like a lawyer. Good legal writing is a solid one-eighty away from good fiction writing: It's telling, as persuasively and cogently as possible: Just the facts, ma'am -overlaid in tidy legal arguments and analyses. I can't, and won't, knock solid legal writing. It took me decades to hone that skill and, well, I'm pretty good at it. Lots of professional articles published, listed in Best Lawyers in America for about a decade, a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers since the 90's-- an elite bunch of some of the most talented lawyers I have the privilege of knowing. I've had a good run, just cheated out of a much longer run by an insidious thing called MS. As far as fiction writing creds, I just won a contest last year for a short story that's being published in November 2011. Working on a novel that I'm workshopping here on this great site, and hoping to do a full-blown query on in 2012. Love love love the supportive, friendly, and truly talented people I've been fortunate enough to meet so incredibly quickly here. |
User Writings
| Title/Name | Date | Ranking | Reviews | Type | |
| Jun 26, 2012 | 9 | 749 | Novel | ||
Casey Lang is a 34-year-old lawyer whose... | |||||
| Feb 25, 2012 | 756 | 8 | Short Story | ||
Laura Nyro was FINALLY inducted into the R&R... | |||||
| Nov 18, 2011 | 732 | 9 | Short Story | ||
A post-apocolyptic tribe of women survives... | |||||
| Dec 8, 2011 | 290 | 13 | Short Story | ||
This story won a contest run by Monadnock... | |||||
| Jan 6, 2012 | 560 | 11 | Short Story | ||
Anything - ANYTHING! - to avoid working on my... | |||||
| Mar 20, 2013 | 1903 | 3 | Short Story | ||
After reading Sheryl Sandberg's 'Lean In' and... | |||||
| Sep 5, 2012 | 476 | 11 | Short Story | ||
My golden retriever finally crossed the bridge... | |||||
| Feb 17, 2013 | 437 | 11 | Short Story | ||
Partly true, partly not. What did YOU do on... | |||||
