Oh, I wish those council guys would let me have an hour alone in the room with her, if I was larger and had grenades.

Willow ,'Storyteller'


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.


Pix - Mar 09, 2005 6:40:37 am PST #426 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Oh Liese. I adore that.

I stretch it out, languorous, like a summer twilight.

This especially.


§ ita § - Mar 09, 2005 7:25:37 am PST #427 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

She cradles the heavy mug closer to her body, leaning forward to capture more chocolate-scented steam.

It's too hot to drink now, but just the right temperature for the heat to seep through to her always-cold fingers and loosen them of their just-slept stiffness.

She almost prefers this moment to actually drinking. Basking in the pocket of warmth, she's briefly able to look at the snow-covered landscape without resentment or fear. Her memories of being a small bundle in a bright snowsuit become more real than frostbite earned scraping ice from her windshield.

But it's chocolate. It's not for holding.


sumi - Mar 09, 2005 8:00:28 am PST #428 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Bwahaha!


Liese S. - Mar 09, 2005 8:31:29 am PST #429 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Oh! That's great, ita. Nothing like it.


deborah grabien - Mar 09, 2005 9:46:21 am PST #430 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Now I want a chantico...


erikaj - Mar 09, 2005 10:03:10 am PST #431 of 10001
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)

Deb, despite all the attention I'm trying to get through writing, your meme is making me sweat. Because it still feels unseemly to me to think my stuff is good, or something. Except for ten seconds on the high of writing it, but hey, I'm stoned then.


deborah grabien - Mar 09, 2005 10:08:01 am PST #432 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

erika, at some point, you're going to have to learn to love your own voice. The voice is there. Don't muffle it - don't bury it.

And sweating is fine, so long as you don't let it drown you, or stop you.


erikaj - Mar 09, 2005 10:16:08 am PST #433 of 10001
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)

Well, I'm trying, but being *asked* to, makes me realize it's still hard.


deborah grabien - Mar 09, 2005 10:30:56 am PST #434 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

I hope you do do the meme. I really want to see what you come up with as first or spontaneous choices, both as reader and as writer.


Beverly - Mar 09, 2005 10:36:35 am PST #435 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

I know instantly what I come up with as reader. But I'm having a problem as a writer. I like a lot of my stuff--I just don't have one bit that I love.

Still looking.