Susan, it is not a bad omen. Talk to the editor. Don't grovel; you have nothing to grovel about.
Maria, OMG, I am in love with your dress. When you're done getting married in it, can I please marry it? When's your date, again?
Mal: You want to tell me how come there's a statue of you here looking at me like I owe him something? Jayne: Wishing I could, Captain.
'Jaynestown'
Spike's Bitches 22: You've got Angel breath
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Rio - Mar 12, 2005 6:49:48 pm PST #6275 of 10001
Are you ready to be strong?
Maria - Mar 12, 2005 6:56:11 pm PST #6276 of 10001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Susan, what everyone else said. I'd just be repeating good advice already given.
Maria, OMG, I am in love with your dress. When you're done getting married in it, can I please marry it? When's your date, again?
Hee! October 1, this year. Yes, you can marry it, but I'd still like to visit every once in a while. But, um, won't Saget be uncomfortable sleeping on the floor?
Rio - Mar 12, 2005 6:57:28 pm PST #6277 of 10001
Are you ready to be strong?
I'm happy to sleep on the couch. With your dress.
Susan W. - Mar 12, 2005 7:07:59 pm PST #6278 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Thanks, y'all. I'm still new enough at this writing business that I feel like I'm navigating a maze, and that if I'm not careful I could make some mistake that feels tiny but is actually irredeemable.
Rio - Mar 12, 2005 7:08:39 pm PST #6279 of 10001
Are you ready to be strong?
Most mistakes aren't irredeemable.
Ginger - Mar 12, 2005 7:12:56 pm PST #6280 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I'm not sure there are any irredeemable mistakes in writing, unless it's the sort of mistake that makes the NY Times. The main market is the hundreds of mid-size publications, and I don't have any sense that the editors of these talk to each other, much less sit around gossiping about authors. If they do get together, these days they'll be talking about budgets.
Rio - Mar 12, 2005 7:14:42 pm PST #6281 of 10001
Are you ready to be strong?
Actually, we do sit around gossiping about writers. But the only ways to be, like, blacklisted are to be incredibly rude to your editor, to talk shit about one publication to another, to say horrible things about an editor or publication on your blog or to lie.
Ginger - Mar 12, 2005 7:22:40 pm PST #6282 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Oops. Maybe I've been gossiped about, then. I've never commited any of those sins, though.
Aims - Mar 12, 2005 7:32:54 pm PST #6283 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I'm twitchy. Anxious. Not sure why. Don't really want to go anywhere.....just.....feeling weird.
Aims - Mar 12, 2005 7:34:59 pm PST #6284 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
MARIA - I want to marry your dress after Rio divorces it.