Happy Birthday AmyLiz!
We knocked 'em deader!
Willow ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Laura - Apr 06, 2005 6:00:48 am PDT #1104 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
erikaj - Apr 06, 2005 6:16:30 am PDT #1105 of 10001
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
Happy birthday, AmyLiz. Deb, I can't find the formatted version of that story,. with my address on it and stuff, and it seems that the contest people want a footer and page numbers too...scary how little I know about Word after all this time. It really is embarrassing...I'd get a book but I'd need something that breaks stuff down as simply as humanly possible.
deborah grabien - Apr 06, 2005 6:43:17 am PDT #1106 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Amy! BIRTHDAY!
Sail, wow. That one was kickass.
erika, I still suck at Word; I was a WordPerfect girl and I still find Word clunky, cumbersome and opaque. Do you need it formatted?
Amy - Apr 06, 2005 6:49:52 am PDT #1107 of 10001
Because books.
Thanks for the birthday wishes, all!
erikaj - Apr 06, 2005 6:53:40 am PDT #1108 of 10001
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
Yeah, let me check what they want again...I've got till July but I tend to talk myself out of these things if I don't pretend to do them impulsively...I wonder what I did with the nice one I had.(I have a real problem with seeing my work as having a future, though...in fact I'm fighting the urge to type work like "work" right now, and it's NFG.) This one is nice because you don't have to pay...if I have an urge to throw away $10, there are plenty of other places to do it than fricking Glimmer Train. Thanks. Good luck with the editor, Deb.
erikaj - Apr 06, 2005 6:59:03 am PDT #1109 of 10001
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
Ed Gein: Everyone: What should I put in my cover letter? If they like it, it would be my first published fiction. My non-fiction is kind of relevant to this piece, though(It's the haircut one from the contest I lost.) Yeah, it's Short Story Bagged Salad.
deborah grabien - Apr 06, 2005 6:59:30 am PDT #1110 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Kewl! erika, send me the version of it you want to submit, and we'll get it formatted to their specifications.
erikaj - Apr 06, 2005 7:05:25 am PDT #1111 of 10001
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
I appreciate their not wanting to lose the stories, but they don't understand what it's like to write like Rain Man does math(I'm kidding, I studied too, but when it comes to presentation, stone tablets all the way.) And I won't even go into my bizarre rituals.
Connie Neil - Apr 06, 2005 7:51:45 am PDT #1112 of 10001
brillig
This is annoyingly interesting. I'm working the Library of Congress cataloging system, flipping through various headings. I'm in the Authorship section, and there's a subdivision for special topics. ONe of those topics is "Housewives as authors." I think I understand the phenomenon they're discussing, but I'm not sure. Are they thinking that a housewife trying to fit in writing in her life is different from, say, an accountant trying to fit in writing? Or are they thinking that housewives write a particular type of book?
There's a category for women writers. There are also categories for insane authors, laboring class authors, and prisoners as authors.
erikaj - Apr 06, 2005 7:54:25 am PDT #1113 of 10001
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
Ha.