'Objects In Space'
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
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."
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.
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.
Susan for Editor-in-Chief!
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.
If you need a guest speaker, I'm in.
I'm especially fierce in defense of the adverb, used properly.
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?
I'm familiar with the usage, but apparently my home region has a lot more Southernism than I previously thought. I thought it was fairly common.
That's not some obscure Southernism, is it?
I always used it as a kid. I don't know where I picked it up, but my grampa was from the midwest. Maybe he passed it down.
We used it here. My Nova Scotian grandmother (born 1906) used it, too.