But I like tight prose, damn it! I get so damned bored with all these big goopy epics - half the story is buried under the concept of "hey, why use one perfect word when we can use eight possible ones?"
Bleah.
Dawn: I thought you were adequate. Giles: And the accolades keep pouring in. I'd best take my leave before my head swells any larger. Good night.
'First Date'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
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deborah grabien - Jun 10, 2005 6:24:14 pm PDT #2633 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Lilty Cash - Jun 10, 2005 6:25:20 pm PDT #2634 of 10001
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
I get so damned bored with all these big goopy epics - half the story is buried under the concept of "hey, why use one perfect word when we can use eight possible ones?"
Sing it, Deb.
Aims - Jun 10, 2005 6:25:48 pm PDT #2635 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
t makes ginger cookie sacrifice to Deb
deborah grabien - Jun 10, 2005 6:27:27 pm PDT #2636 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Lilty, use a spiral. Seriously. Spiral or looseleaf.
I lay on the beach at Cannes in 1990 and wrote seventeen pages about the minutiae of the South of France, for "And Then Put Out The Light." I used a 69 cent buckram notebook from Chinatown.
They're still my notebooks of choice.
Pix - Jun 10, 2005 6:28:31 pm PDT #2637 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Lilty, for goodness sake don't spend a ton of money. Get a bunch of single-subject spiral notebooks. They're lightweight, and you don't feel like you have to write perfectly. You can screw up or rip out pages or make lists or get email addresses on odd pages without feeling guilty. I adore my spiral notebooks.
deborah grabien - Jun 10, 2005 6:29:23 pm PDT #2638 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I have a nice husband. He's not only my plot consultant on this book - which deals extensively with the first love of my life, and nuff said about that in an open forum, because this one's locked down tight for the moment - he doesn't mind me wandering into the book and not emerging for five hours.
Nice man.
Which is a way of saying I should get off my arse and make a pasta sauce.
Not gonna. Not yet. Writing. Just up for air.
Oooooh! Van Halen! "Finish What You Started"!
Lilty Cash - Jun 10, 2005 6:29:24 pm PDT #2639 of 10001
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
I love spirals, too. I just get distracted by shiny things.
§ ita § - Jun 10, 2005 6:33:50 pm PDT #2640 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I hear you, Lilty. I have a stack of notebooks that I just enjoy for their own sake. They don't have to be filled with words or pictures to make me happy (in fact, there are a couple I dare not even start -- but I still love them).
Connie Neil - Jun 10, 2005 6:34:23 pm PDT #2641 of 10001
brillig
I keep seeing these journals and occasionally buying one, then I can't write in them because I feel like something a bit more high-toned than slash fic and scrawled chunks of overheard conversations should go in them.
Loose-leaf or spiral for certain, though, because not being able to write to the edge of the page because of binding freaks.me.out. Plus it won't lay flat.
deborah grabien - Jun 10, 2005 6:35:31 pm PDT #2642 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
ita, I love notebooks. I just wouldn't shlep the fancy ones all over Europe, to write in.
Seriously. Spiral is way better for that.