Dude! I am all about the many pages of the WIP, and in fact, having just done five more, I'm-a back at it.
Go, Susan! You don't need to be takin' that shit off The Man!
Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.
Mal ,'The Message'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
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deborah grabien - Jun 04, 2005 5:38:21 pm PDT #2527 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Susan W. - Jun 04, 2005 6:28:32 pm PDT #2528 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Over dinner I was reading over the latest Romantic Times Book Club Magazine and snarking over some groan-inducing titles and plot devices.
DH wants me to write a book about a TV chef who discovers that he's become an accidental bigamist, since his divorce wasn't as final as he thought. The title? Here's One I Laid Earlier.
SailAweigh - Jun 04, 2005 6:35:24 pm PDT #2529 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Bwah! That's a good one, Susan.
Deb, I can confirm on the clonidine, too. It was one of the drugs they gave my son as part of his ADD regimen when he was younger. It took maybe an hour after he took it to put him into a trance. He usually ended up sleeping from it.
deborah grabien - Jun 04, 2005 7:13:03 pm PDT #2530 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
41,000 words. 198 pages. This is the scene that's offering to tear me in half and it's pouring like liquid.
Dayum. Riding the tiger.
deborah grabien - Jun 04, 2005 7:32:59 pm PDT #2531 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Chapter 8 is done. I'm not even reading it back. Anyone around?
erikaj - Jun 04, 2005 7:49:59 pm PDT #2532 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I'm here.
deborah grabien - Jun 04, 2005 7:54:54 pm PDT #2533 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
sent. I'm too shaky, or exalted, or frelled, or something, to dick around with chapter separation. It's Chapter 8.
Must go cry all over Nic for awhile.
erikaj - Jun 04, 2005 7:55:54 pm PDT #2534 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
It's okay...
Susan W. - Jun 04, 2005 9:23:27 pm PDT #2535 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Research question of my own. I could try my Regency loop, but Buffistas is a bit more profanity-friendly....
So I've got this scene where Jack, if he were American and living in 2005, would call someone a god-damned motherfucking asshole. How do I say that in 1811 vintage Englishman?
deborah grabien - Jun 05, 2005 7:52:47 am PDT #2536 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Susan, a couple of suggestions for source:
Hughs, Geoffrey. SWEARING: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF FOUL LANGUAGE, OATHS, AND PROFANITY IN ENGLISH. (1991)
Cromie, Robert. 1811 DICTIONARY OF THE VULGAR TONGUE. (repr. 1971)