Hilariously Embarrassing...

I was up late last night, writing, as usual.  I was also spending an exorbitant amount of time on Twitter procrastinating. 

It was during this time of "necessary" procrastinating that I came upon Gennifer Albin's (new author of Crewel) harmless tweet.  It is as follows:

GenniferAlbin Genn 
 five _ for the apocalypse #fillintheblank

So I thought for a moment (ponder, ponder) before replying

amberafterglow Amber Clites
@GenniferAlbin five kisses for the apocalypse? #especiallyifithastodowithfallen #darnyoulaurenkate

@amberafterglow that is a good one...changing my answer

@GenniferAlbin Hahaha...it's always about the kissing!

@amberafterglow of course, now i have to decide on the top 5

Ok, and now I drag in one of my favorite books and movie.  This tweet prove to be the precurser to my emabarrassment.

@GenniferAlbin That is a hard decision! Maybe start with The Princess Bride, after all in the book it says it blows every other kiss away!

@GenniferAlbin Although not sure if that counts as YA? But Westley and Buttercup rock!

@amberafterglow lol...that's my only, and top, answer so far!

@GenniferAlbin Seriously that book and movie are what started my initial love of fantasy! Plus Cary Elwes is drool worthy as Westley!

@amberafterglow i wish i could write like that

Such an innocent statement.  Who knew it would launch me into this fiasco?  Seriously, I just need to clarify the fact that The Princess Bride has been a long standing favorite of mine.  So much so that I have probably watched the movie at least 100 times.  One summer, my best friend and I watched TPB almost every day.  Every word was memorized, voices were impersonated.  The movie even makes a guest appearance in my WIP, that's how much I love it.   Now the book, I've read that at least 15+ times.  Don't believe me?  Below are a couple pics of my much abused and tattered copy.  I'm afraid it's so old it's had to have a tape job.  Shh...don't tell it!

 Ok, now that that is said let's continue with Gennifer's and my conversation.  Sigh, if only I hadn't tried to impress her with my knowledge of TPB.  *hangs head*

@GenniferAlbin Me too! Although William Goldman had to abridge the original by S Morgenstern because supposedly it was boring and political

@GenniferAlbin He made it the "good parts" version, so there's hope for us yet...lol

@amberafterglow omg, I bought that for years...lol...I use to look for the original until my mom, who thought it was funny, finally told me

 I'll admit, for a moment her comment confused me.  But I brushed it off, and continued on.

@GenniferAlbin I know what you mean, I bought a copy at a library sale years ago and was amazed by how much he says he cut from the story.

@amberafterglow just googled it and someone was questioning goldman's sanity for creating morgenstern...lol...it's creative metafiction!

Wait, Rewind!!  What?!  Morgenstern is fictional?  Goldman made him up?!  How was I not aware of this?

@GenniferAlbin What!? OMG I actually until this moment thought Morgenstern was real #mymindisutterlyblown Hahaha!

@GenniferAlbin Here I am giving a history and it's false information, I am literally cracking up

Her absolutely nice reponse, even though I have an inkling she is secretly laughing at me

@amberafterglow awesome! reread the book now..it's absolutely genius writing!

@amberafterglow I'm so tired and I was sitting here going " does she know?" I don't want to ruin it for her...lol

I am now frantically Googling The Princess Bride.  I click on Wickipedia  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_Bride   OMG, it's true!  Not only did he make up Morgenstern, but he made up an entire back story.  I'm speechless!  I mean I believed in this story so wholeheartedly that I even wrote into Ballantine Books (now Random House) for Goldman's version of the reunion scene.  The ruse even continues today http://www.harcourtbooks.com/PrincessBride/request.asp  And, just to defend my utter stupidity, below is a picture of the title page.

I mean why wouldn't I believe this?  So let the convo continue.

@GenniferAlbin I am still laughing....if you only knew how many times I've read this book!! Just did a Wickipedia #hangsheadinshame

@amberafterglow he's very convincing (Again such a nice reply)

@GenniferAlbin So tempted to go back and delete previous entries so only you and I are aware of my "Shame"

@amberafterglow I'll never tell...well maybe my husband...and my sister...and my CP #okayIsuck  (devious, but hilarious)

@GenniferAlbin I can't wait to tell my own husband, he's going to die of laughter! I've been trying to sucker him into reading it for years

And so I went to bed, thinking about what a creative genius William Goldman really is.  I mean he had me believing wholeheartedly in his story, and I'm sure there are hundreds out there still unaware of his duplicity.  Or at least I hope I'm not the only smuck that fooled.  Isn't that what every writer craves, for someone to lose themselves so completely in your story that they forget what is fact and what is fiction?  So I say well played Goldman, well played.

When I woke up this morning, this was the first thought on my mind.

@GenniferAlbin Woke up thinking Goldman is a genius and I'm an idiot #mighthavetoblogaboutthis

@amberafterglow lmao! seriously, reread it now and you'll just love it even more!

@GenniferAlbin Really, now I'm going to have to!

So here's to Gennifer for still talking to me and for laughing at me.  Because if it wasn't me that had been fooled I'd be laughing my butt off.  What am I talking about, I'm still chuckling over being duped. Sorry if you found this post boring, but sometimes embarrassing moments are just too hilarious not to share!