Thank you, Susan. I got it, and replied in e, saying the same. I'm so excited to read it.
It's called a blaster, Will, a word that tends to discourage experimentation. Now, if it were called the Orgasmater, I'd be the first to try your basic button press approach.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
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.
Topic!Cindy - May 17, 2005 6:12:57 am PDT #2181 of 10001
What is even happening?
Astarte - May 17, 2005 7:43:16 am PDT #2182 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
Those are very powerful.
deborah grabien - May 17, 2005 8:19:41 am PDT #2183 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Mildly cranky, edging on fullscale pissed-off.
Email from my editor this morning; not bad news, but she's being (to be kind) disingenuous, and I don't like it, and have emailed and left a message for my agent.
More later, when ironed out. At the moment, pretty cranky with my publishers.
Connie Neil - May 17, 2005 10:52:51 am PDT #2184 of 10001
brillig
more shadows
The nights are getting brighter here. Spotlights at the 7-11 on the corner. Stuttering street lights on every other block. Paranoid security lights that flash "How dare you walk here!" as I pass by.
I walk home from the 7-11, wincing at the halogen headlights that morons like to kick to Bright at pedestrians. I gratefully turn my house corner, which blocks all the lights.
My sharp-edged shadow lies on the sidewalk in front of me. I smile, turn, and look up.
"Hello, moon."
deborah grabien - May 17, 2005 2:40:47 pm PDT #2185 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
connie, that's a charmer.
I'm buried in publishing silliness. At least, not silliness, just surrealism. Will be back to form when things handled.
Susan W. - May 18, 2005 12:10:05 pm PDT #2186 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I've decided that when I'm published and therefore have enough credentials that anyone will pay attention to me, the workshop I give at writers meetings and conferences will be on the usefulness of adverbs, forms of "to be," and the past perfect tense. Because I am officialLY tired of people telling new writers they are bad things, which new writers interpret as meaning they must avoid them at all costs.
Connie Neil - May 18, 2005 12:14:14 pm PDT #2187 of 10001
brillig
Susan for Editor-in-Chief!
Susan W. - May 18, 2005 12:21:26 pm PDT #2188 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
The thing is, there's a sound principle behind all the advice. It's just not anything close to an absolute. But for some reason it's very hard to explain the nuances.
deborah grabien - May 18, 2005 12:21:39 pm PDT #2189 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
If you need a guest speaker, I'm in.
I'm especially fierce in defense of the adverb, used properly.
Susan W. - May 18, 2005 12:37:29 pm PDT #2190 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Question--in the most recent section I took to my Monday writers group, I referred to Anna getting a stitch in her side (as in, the pain you get from walking or running past your normal limits, not a gut wound being sewn up). One of the group members circled it with a question mark. That's not some obscure Southernism, is it?