Sizzler has these brownies. We've been known to pay for their buffet just so we can wallow in their brownies.
Does anybody else miss the Mayor? 'I just want to be a big snake.'
Xander ,'End of Days'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
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Connie Neil - Jun 17, 2005 7:33:08 am PDT #2778 of 10001
brillig
deborah grabien - Jun 17, 2005 7:38:34 am PDT #2779 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
It's weird - I'm not much of a brownie fan, possibly because for years, all the ones I ate were sort of heavy and bland. And everyone around me would be eating the fancier ones and saying, what a shame you die if you eat nuts, because a brownie isn't a proper brownie without walnuts in it.
So I learned to make things like tequila lime tart and (for those moments where chocolate from hell is needed) chapeau noir.
A writing question, posed to all of you. I could do it as a livejournal meme and probably will, just to get the broad range of answers, but I wanted to ask a question:
Say you're sitting high atop Writers' Mountain, being the guru. Students of writing toil up the hillside, to ask you for the One True Pearl of Wisdom that will shine the glow of enlightment on their labours.
One line, and one line only. Distill, please. What would you tell them?
For me, it's dead simple: "Stop agonising over petty bullshit and tell the fucking story."
Everyone? I'm curious.
ChiKat - Jun 17, 2005 7:41:02 am PDT #2780 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
It was a brownie. No, it was a brownie as clean and pure as the writing the books urge you to do. Free of fripperies like frosting and nuts. Heavy, rich. Adverbs could not touch it, "chocolately" was extraneous. It sat on the tonge like the divine exemplar of chocolate.
Ahhh...food porn in the morning. And, this is the perfect brownie.
a brownie isn't a proper brownie without walnuts in it.
This is a complete and utter falsehood. Nuts muck up a good brownie.
Nutty - Jun 17, 2005 7:41:54 am PDT #2781 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
One line, and one line only.
"Aspire to be someone other than Dan Brown."
Connie Neil - Jun 17, 2005 7:48:29 am PDT #2782 of 10001
brillig
"You cannot lie to yourself and put the truth on paper."
Plus it's slightly obscure and sounds like it might be properly guru-ish, being about truth and all that.
deborah grabien - Jun 17, 2005 7:51:27 am PDT #2783 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
"Aspire to be someone other than Dan Brown."
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
"You cannot lie to yourself and put the truth on paper."
Yup yup yup.
Amy - Jun 17, 2005 7:58:50 am PDT #2784 of 10001
Because books.
What would you tell them?
"Write the story you'd love to read."
erikaj - Jun 17, 2005 8:17:50 am PDT #2785 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
AmyLiz took mine. "Everyone has a story. It's up to you to find it."
Amy - Jun 17, 2005 8:19:28 am PDT #2786 of 10001
Because books.
Oooh, but that's a good one, too, erika. Awesome way to look at characterization.
Scrappy - Jun 17, 2005 8:20:08 am PDT #2787 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
"What matters is the final draft--what doesn't matter is how many rewrites it takes you to get there."