Now I want a chantico...
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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 - 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.
erikaj - Mar 09, 2005 10:03:10 am PST #431 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
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
Always Anti-fascist!
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.
erikaj - Mar 09, 2005 10:40:56 am PST #436 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I think I fear I'll be overcome with self-love, um, apart from the kind that makes you go blind if you do it too much, and my whole world-view will be upended.
deborah grabien - Mar 09, 2005 10:50:21 am PST #437 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
It's not so much about posting a piece that you love of your own - it's more about posting a piece that you think is immediately recognisable as you.
Amy - Mar 09, 2005 10:50:50 am PST #438 of 10001
Because books.
Bev, I picked something so strange -- it's so hard to pick one small thing. I like a lot of my stuff, too, but as soon as I picked one, I wished I had picked something else.
Ginger - Mar 09, 2005 10:54:11 am PST #439 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I've had a hard time determining a favorite. There are articles I've written that I think were pretty good, but it's hard to find a paragraph or so.