Oh, yeah. That's one place I definitely want to go back to. I used to think Wisconsin was green, until we flew into Shannon. The colors were so remarkable, I could have stared out the window for hours.
Bunch of wanna blessed-bes. Nowadays every girl with a henna tattoo and a spice rack thinks she's a sister to the dark ones.
Willow ,'Bring On The Night'
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.
SailAweigh - Aug 01, 2005 1:47:59 pm PDT #3398 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
dcp - Aug 02, 2005 5:07:29 pm PDT #3399 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Results of the 2005 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest [link]
Winner:
As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual Stromberg carburetors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire, highly functional yet pleasingly formed, perched prominently on top of the intake manifold, aching for experienced hands, the small knurled caps of the oil dampeners begging to be inspected and adjusted as described in chapter seven of the shop manual. -- Dan McKay, Fargo, ND
Another good one--dishonorable mention in the Children's Literature category:
"What are you doing in my bedroom at this time of night, Ernie, and why are you grinning at me with those sharp teeth and how come you've been spending so much time with the Count lately, and why has Big Bird disappeared, and you should really do something about that breath, or my name isn't Bert the muppet." -- Vicki Nunn, Gladstone, Queensland, Australia
erikaj - Aug 03, 2005 6:04:05 am PDT #3400 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Sorry if I've been boring about this in recent days, but it seemed like a natural " green"
Unrequited
You tell me she’s beautiful. That it’s a thrill to go into a place with her on your arm, but you’re kind enough to wonder if you should feel guilty about that.”No,no, “ I say, meanwhile thinking “Ass.” But then I take it back, because I’d hate to judge. It’s like high school with more cursing as I’m back to hearing someone I care about wonder Why Girls Act That Way and forgetting they’re talking to a charter member. Not the one the Home Office puts on the brochure, but a real woman, nonetheless. And I sit here, green with envy.
deborah grabien - Aug 03, 2005 7:48:57 am PDT #3401 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Damn, erika. Ouch.
erikaj - Aug 03, 2005 7:52:53 am PDT #3402 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah.But not as much as when he told me how the sex was. One more detail and I might have written back: Sorry this is messy. It's hard to type with a razor blade in my vein this way. The Other White Meat
SailAweigh - Aug 03, 2005 8:02:41 am PDT #3403 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Ouch, indeed. I remember feeling like that in high school. It sucks there's times I still feel like that.
Fay - Aug 03, 2005 10:04:39 am PDT #3404 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Oh, erika. Owch indeed. Yes. I feel your pain. Been there, done that.
Further to a kerfuffle over the RWA which some of you may have been following (and if not, never mind), the following quote strikes me as something of a gauntlet:
Romance is apple pie, not anal sex.
...it makes me want to write a romance. Although possibly not one that would find easy mainstream publication.
deborah grabien - Aug 03, 2005 10:12:44 am PDT #3405 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Fay, I've been hearing about it from several people. My own feeling is that the outgoing president is a dopey little Anne Coulter wannabe who ought to be dropped down a laundry chute into an escape-proof room containing thirty horny sailors.
Susan W. - Aug 03, 2005 10:18:11 am PDT #3406 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Fay, where did you see the "apple pie" quote? Because I think it originated in a comments thread on the Smart Bitches blog, and the poster was paraphrasing her perception of the current leadership's views--i.e. it's not any kind of official statement whatsoever.
But yeah, it's quite a kerfuffle. I wrote my region's board members last night (at least one of whom has posted on one of the email loops to say that the presentation wasn't what she'd been led to expect based on the planning meetings they had back in March, and she's angry and trying to get to the bottom of it), saying that the only thing keeping me in the organization is the local and special interest chapters, and that I joined for career development, not to revisit the culture wars of the last two elections.
Fay - Aug 03, 2005 10:30:09 am PDT #3407 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
it's not any kind of official statement whatsoever.
? My bad, I had no intention of weighing in on the actual fracas, and I didn't mean to imply that anyone had made an official statement pertaining to the relative romanticism of apple pie versus anal sex. Without going back to check, I can't recall who said it - I rather thought it was one of the girls who (if I understood right) run the Smart Bitch website, whom I understood to have nothing to do with the fracas itself. But the line is practically begging for a reply in the form of romantic fic with anal sex, imho. (Although I guess that Bridget Jones already went there, now I come to think on it.)