No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?

Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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.


victor infante - Apr 30, 2005 9:21:46 am PDT #1548 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.

Oh, yeah. That's a show I wish I'd have seen. I think I need to get back to SF for a spell, and this time not be on a whirlwind tour.


Lee - Apr 30, 2005 9:23:07 am PDT #1549 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I think I need to get back to SF for a spell, and this time not be on a whirlwind tour.

Seconded.


deborah grabien - Apr 30, 2005 10:19:49 am PDT #1550 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

What Perkins Said.

And Perkins, insending shortly.


deborah grabien - Apr 30, 2005 1:11:37 pm PDT #1551 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

One of my least favourite cliches.

If Wishes Were Horses...

Letter to a ghost:

Are you bored yet? Bored with my dislocation, my endless groping for one bright strand of memory in yesterday's mists, my bottomless grinding need for clarity and resolution?

You are? All right, my darling. Then grant me a wish.

Give me back just one day. I swear I'd fit it all in: I would tell you I loved you, and prove it. I would take you back to bed with no apologies, with all the joy I possess. I would make you tell me why I shouldn't leave you.

Are you bored with the beggar, riding?


Topic!Cindy - Apr 30, 2005 2:09:31 pm PDT #1552 of 10001
What is even happening?

Ooof. deb.


deborah grabien - Apr 30, 2005 2:12:12 pm PDT #1553 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Yeah. "Ooof" pretty much sums it up.


Allyson - Apr 30, 2005 9:24:35 pm PDT #1554 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

deb! I sent out my first batch of query letters today.

Nervous and excited and hopeful and realistic am I, all at the same time.


deborah grabien - Apr 30, 2005 9:56:27 pm PDT #1555 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Allyson, you rock like a mad thing, you know that?

Let the games begin! And now we sit back, and see what comes of round one....


Susan W. - Apr 30, 2005 10:26:03 pm PDT #1556 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

April is over. Since I restarted the wip in February, I'm three months in. As of tonight, I made it to p. 150, right where I want to be. Chapter Eight. Roughly 37K words. In my head the novel is split into three roughly equal acts, and I hit the end of Act I right around p. 130--perfect for my goal of a 400-page manuscript.

I feel good. And now I'm going to bed.


Scrappy - May 01, 2005 7:49:39 am PDT #1557 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Yay, Allyson! It's a book I would read, for sure.