Hey Deb, did you know someone near and dear to you is featured on Romancing the Blog today? Check it out -- it's a lovely column.
You've got my support. Just think of me as...as your... You know, I'm searching for 'supportive things' and I'm coming up all bras.
Xander ,'Empty Places'
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.
Amy - Feb 23, 2005 6:14:52 am PST #206 of 10001
Because books.
deborah grabien - Feb 23, 2005 7:40:45 am PST #207 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
erika, whoa. And wow. That's strong as rock.
Amy, hook a girl up?
edit: never mind, found it. Go, Jenn!
erikaj - Feb 23, 2005 7:55:55 am PST #208 of 10001
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
Thanks, that's what I hope for. Sometimes I get "embarrassing navel-gazing" though. (although not of my actual navel...I still think that's unattractive.0
deborah grabien - Feb 23, 2005 2:09:42 pm PST #209 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
OK. Remember me writing an email to the Royal Engineers, about the vehicles used in bomb disposal in London, circa 1948?
"Dear Deborah
Beverley Williams at the Royal; Engineers museum, has been in touch regarding your enquiry about post war Bomb disposal vehicles. Today i have been in touch with a wartime Bomb disposal officer who remembers that the time in question 1948? that they were still using the wartime vehicles namely the Austin Tilley, and Morris 8 CWT. As Beverley wrote to you these vehicles had red painted front mudguards to distinguish that they were emergency vehicles. I shall continue to ask several other wartime bomb disposal personnel to see if any other vehicles were used, it is widely thought that about this time the Austin Champs were being introduced but i will be in touch shortly.
I love experts. I really do.
Connie Neil - Feb 23, 2005 2:11:50 pm PST #210 of 10001
brillig
Just saw a news bit saying that half the remains from 9/11 can't be identified with current technology. I've always thought it was an incredible opportunity for someone who thought that way to decide to disappear. Somebody who was already bummed, worked in the Towers, maybe got out, maybe was dawdling on the way to work.
Writer's brain is a scary, cynical place.
§ ita § - Feb 23, 2005 2:13:36 pm PST #211 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've always thought it was an incredible opportunity for someone who thought that way to decide to disappear.
I've seen it both ways on TV -- both to cover up disappearing, and to cover up an unrelated death.
deborah grabien - Feb 23, 2005 2:23:13 pm PST #212 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
That's a major plot point in Get Shorty: the gambler who misses his plane, watches it crash on takeoff, and tries to use that as a way to get out of the clutches of the mob boss he's in debt to.
Amy - Feb 23, 2005 2:23:29 pm PST #213 of 10001
Because books.
Writer's brain is a scary, cynical place.
I heard that report this morning, and I thought the same thing. Great minds...
Connie Neil - Feb 23, 2005 2:25:40 pm PST #214 of 10001
brillig
I occasionally have moral crises that while other people are going, "Oh, the poor families," I'm going, "I can use that."
deborah grabien - Feb 23, 2005 2:27:58 pm PST #215 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I occasionally have moral crises that while other people are going, "Oh, the poor families," I'm going, "I can use that."
That's not a moral crisis. It's just writers' mind at work. I don't think I've ever met a writer who didn't react that way, even as we may be condemning ourselves for being heartless.