It'll have to come out, then.
Works for me. Do you have a grapefruit spoon you aren't using?
We didn't have sex, if that's what you mean. That's all I do now, not have sex.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
deborah grabien - Jul 19, 2005 6:53:35 am PDT #3237 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Connie Neil - Jul 19, 2005 7:09:13 am PDT #3238 of 10001
brillig
I've got a plastic knife.
ChiKat - Jul 19, 2005 7:30:33 am PDT #3239 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?
Spork?
deborah grabien - Jul 19, 2005 7:41:58 am PDT #3240 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Actually, I want to see if I can get the first chunk of Chapter Ten done today, so ita can have it to read on the plane.
I'd probably better postpone the brain removal surgery until later.
§ ita § - Jul 19, 2005 7:42:25 am PDT #3241 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Whew!
deborah grabien - Jul 19, 2005 7:47:41 am PDT #3242 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Heh. ita, I'll send you what I've got done on WMGGW later on; it'll hopefully go up through the first half of chapter ten. It's sitting at about 45,000 words right now.
BTW, would you mind terribly being a suspect in the fourth book? At Cannes?
Allyson - Jul 19, 2005 7:48:01 am PDT #3243 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Okay. Query letter, bio, source list, overview, outline, and manuscript all neat and tidy and bound solely with a rubber band.
Envelope addressed neatly.
Must go to post office on lunch break.
Okay. So even if I get rejected in the end, I'm going to be cool. I am not going to spiral into a melodramatic self-pity fest.
I am going to develop a callous to such things.
I am going to remember that the work is a thing, the work is not me.
Except for the part that this thing is me. But we'll ignore that for now! yessiree.
It'll all work out, and it'll get published, and someone will pay me enough to pay off my credit card, and then I'll be content for about three weeks.
deborah grabien - Jul 19, 2005 7:52:44 am PDT #3244 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
(fistpump for Allyson)
Next time we're down there - should, hopefully, be September - you and ita to dinner again?
Betsy HP - Jul 19, 2005 8:00:19 am PDT #3245 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Allyson, the first submission is the hardest.
Susan W. - Jul 19, 2005 9:08:02 am PDT #3246 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Writer's Digest has asked me to write a short article on spec, which I'm fine with doing, because it'd be a nice enough credit that I'm willing to take the risk of getting rejected after doing the work. (And hey, I do that all the time with novels, which are hundreds of pages. This is just hundreds of words.)
Anyway, while Annabel is taking her nap this afternoon, I need to get on the phone and call a couple of sources to ask for interesting quotes. I'm tempted to drop the whole idea because I so hate calling people I don't know on the phone to ask for things. It's just the phone, and just strangers. I'll call people I know. I'll email or write strangers. I'll even approach strangers in person when appropriate or speak up fearlessly at Q&A sessions. It's just a very specific phone fear.
Remind me that it's irrational and I should just buck up and make the calls.