Inara: So. Would you like to lecture me on the wickedness of my ways? Book: I brought you some supper, but if you'd prefer a lecture, I've a few very catchy ones prepped. Sin and hellfire... one has lepers.

'Serenity'


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.


erikaj - May 10, 2005 7:55:25 am PDT #2004 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

My college one is embarrassing to me now.Not really due to angst, that was high school poetry. But I didn't know what I was doing except Maupin. Badly. And all of my scene changes were Homicide jump cuts, practically. But somebody still stole it; maybe they were hoping for porn.


Topic!Cindy - May 10, 2005 8:00:19 am PDT #2005 of 10001
What is even happening?

askye, I wrote my first novel at 15 - in Italian. It was all about a hippie on a commune, discovering the Answers to the Great Questions.
I defy anyone to be angstier than that.
At thirteen, I wrote mine about a 15 year old Christian girl who got pregnant (she and her boyfriend somehow gained access to the swan boats in the Boston Public Garden at night, and got carried away) and had to tell her family.


deborah grabien - May 10, 2005 8:05:10 am PDT #2006 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Cindy, BWAH! You may win this one.

Especially since, when I read "Hitchhikers Guide" ten years later, my first reaction was "Forty two! The Answer is 42? Why in hell didn't I think of that?"


Strix - May 10, 2005 8:20:03 am PDT #2007 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I read too darn many of them, too, at 14. By the time I was 17, they made me want to barf. Until I started reading fanfic, I'd forgotten how awful some of those stories could be.

Ohmigod. Diana Palmer. My mom, sister and I were obsessed with her (my sister and I were in our early teens, but Mom? I dunno, she was on a lot of drugs for panic attacks.)

Always a virgin, always the UBERmale, always got married.

And when I hit about 16, I started always throwing her books across the room.


Topic!Cindy - May 10, 2005 8:21:30 am PDT #2008 of 10001
What is even happening?

See? That's why I haven't done a bad writing drabble, yet. I have an unfair advantage. *g*

The bad writing here has been splendidly bad. I am so enjoying it, and have needed the laughs.


deborah grabien - May 10, 2005 8:23:54 am PDT #2009 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Oh, my.

Speaking of bad writing....remember that "you can't make this shit up" story about the Russian model turned dom and the murder of her Swiss lover in Geneva?

It's back in the news.....

And I still couldn't make this shit up.


Pix - May 10, 2005 8:46:31 am PDT #2010 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

BAD WRITING DRABBLE:

Her heart was heavy. Too long, she had yearned for his touch. Too long, he had eluded her soft, white grasp. He was the pinnacle of her every sweetest fantasy--his strong chin, his rugged features, his penetrating blue eyes. O, to be his truest love! O, to feel those manly hands run across her skin! But she knew it was all for naught--he was beyond any simple girl's reach. He was a bright star in her heavens--a fiery orb she knew would only burn her if she let it. Yet, like a bug drawn to the tempting light of the zapper, she was pulled to him.


Topic!Cindy - May 10, 2005 8:48:40 am PDT #2011 of 10001
What is even happening?

Hee! That's hysterical with the old style poetic O! and the bug zapper simile all in one drabble.


deborah grabien - May 10, 2005 8:49:04 am PDT #2012 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Yet, like a bug drawn to the tempting light of the zapper, she was pulled to him.

You know, you could make this even worse with the addition of just two words:

Yet, like a helpless bug irresistably drawn to the tempting light of the zapper, she was pulled to him.


Pix - May 10, 2005 8:50:37 am PDT #2013 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Ooo! Yes! I was already over my word limit, though, so I was trying to be good. While being bad.