Another happy question from me, but how long do they leave up crime scene tape?Because all of the articles I've read have just convinced me I'm not the only wannabe Simon out there...that yellow tape makes a lot of reporters swallow The Big Book of Metaphors or something.
Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.
'Shells'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
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erikaj - Feb 25, 2005 11:37:36 am PST #223 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Atropa - Feb 25, 2005 12:04:16 pm PST #224 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
122 words for the 'something small' drabble topic. I couldn't tighten it more than that.
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I look at a playing card he handed me.
"So this is going to revolutionize gaming?"
Kyle swipes another sip of my coffee sitting on the table between us, nods.
"I like the art. The rules look really … mathy, though."
"The guy who designed it is a math professor. But it's going to be huge."
I shrug. We stop talking about his new job, instead gossiping about the live-action vampire game we're both in. Before he takes me home, Kyle tucks the card into the band of my top hat. I don't know it, but the card holds my future; a new job, travel, a husband. All I see is some better-than-average fantasy art, and rules text I don’t care about.
Connie Neil - Feb 25, 2005 12:15:10 pm PST #225 of 10001
brillig
Aww, the history of Jilli and gaming, all in one drabble.
deborah grabien - Feb 25, 2005 1:43:22 pm PST #226 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Jilli! That one's a sweetie.
deborah grabien - Feb 25, 2005 2:50:34 pm PST #227 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Wondering about submitting a short story or two here.
I've got a few friends with stories already published there or accepted there - Kate Maloy, Susan Ito, Russell Rowland - and it's tempting. I'm worried about Vonnegut being their gold standard, though...
Beverly - Feb 25, 2005 11:55:22 pm PST #228 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Submit, Deb. The chances are 50-50 going in, without any other considerations at all. Spare? Your writing is both spare and elegant. Go for it.
deborah grabien - Feb 26, 2005 7:34:58 am PST #229 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I'm actually thinking of expanding an existing drabble into a longer piece. Would that be kosher, do you think?
SailAweigh - Feb 26, 2005 7:36:17 am PST #230 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Would that be kosher, do you think?
Why wouldn't it? It's your writing and it's original. Meets the criteria, yes?
deborah grabien - Feb 26, 2005 8:23:16 am PST #231 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Yes, but since I've posted the drabble that would be the core of the story both here and in my livenjournal, it might count as "prior publishing", especially since this is a web magazine.
But I didn't see anything in the submission requirements mentioning that. And anyway, while the core of the story would be the drabble, it wouldn't be on one continuous form.
Will ponder.
SailAweigh - Feb 26, 2005 8:36:20 am PST #232 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
both here and in my livenjournal, it might count as "prior publishing"
Hmmm, that is a good question. Since the internets are pretty much public domain, anything ever put on it could be considered priorly published. In my head, though, I think of "published" as having taken money for it. Kind of like the difference between amateur and professional in sports.