Don't make me use the word effulgent in something long and twisted, folks. Just--don't. Subject-verb is your friend!
I'm a vision of hotliness, and how weird is that? Mystical comas. You know, if you can stand the horror of a higher power hijacking your mind and body so that it can give birth to itself, I really recommend 'em.
Cordelia ,'You're Welcome'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
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Connie Neil - May 03, 2005 8:44:01 am PDT #1709 of 10001
brillig
deborah grabien - May 03, 2005 8:46:27 am PDT #1710 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
You realise, between me and Teppy, we've got the beginnings of a perfect candidate for our very own Bulwer-Lytton contest?
I mean, really. Overwritten, underwritten, pretentious....
TEP! Can we have a weekly challenge for "really really really shitty fiction" please?
erikaj - May 03, 2005 8:54:25 am PDT #1711 of 10001
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
Crime Fiction has its own special sins. Some cop's dinner is always getting puked in the gutter. They always hover over the nubile female vic all "What a waste."The Serial Killer italic flashback. Don't hold my fingers over the stove, Mommy. But Mommy always did. To purify Roger's flesh. Roger hated Mommy
Topic!Cindy - May 03, 2005 8:56:53 am PDT #1712 of 10001
What is even happening?
See, I have no idea whether my eyes are expressive or not...I can't imagine that they're not. I only know you online and the phone, but it seems to be you are an expression delivery mechanism. I meant that in the best way. There's a particular life to you--a vividness that manages to come across, even at a distance. I suspect that in person, you could kindle a fire with a glance.
Jesse - May 03, 2005 8:57:51 am PDT #1713 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
How do people make expressions, if not with their eyes? That's jackass. (She said, rolling her expressive eyeballs....)
Connie Neil - May 03, 2005 8:59:18 am PDT #1714 of 10001
brillig
rolling her expressive eyeballs....
Come on, 7! Baby needs shoes!
Topic!Cindy - May 03, 2005 9:00:51 am PDT #1715 of 10001
What is even happening?
snake eyes!
Scrappy - May 03, 2005 9:03:26 am PDT #1716 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
The Serial Killer italic flashback. Don't hold my fingers over the stove, Mommy. But Mommy always did. To purify Roger's flesh. Roger hated Mommy
This is hilarious.
erikaj - May 03, 2005 9:19:00 am PDT #1717 of 10001
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
It's funny cause it's true, Robin. Sadly. It's getting so I never want to read *anything* about that, between the dime-store psych and overused Catholic iconography...it's still weird to think "Bor-ring." at a time like that, though. But I'm picky now and less likely to accept airport paperbacks than I was BDS(Before David Simon)
deborah grabien - May 03, 2005 9:25:25 am PDT #1718 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
How do people make expressions, if not with their eyes? That's jackass. (She said, rolling her expressive eyeballs....)
Ah, but when you're rolling your eyes? Think about what the rest of yourt facial muscles are doing, and whether holding every other muscle in your face perfectly still, while simply moving your eyeballs around, would convey anything other than a sort of fascinated "whoa..." reaction in those around you.
Her dislike of it, so far as I understand it, is due to writers using the eyes to express the, er, gamut of emotions, without the rest of their face and body coming into play: that the eyes, all by themselves, show everything. On that level, I'm sort of with her, because they don't, not alone. She hates phrases like "I could see the love in his/her eyes." No, you could not, writer person. You could see the corneas in his/her eyes.