Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.

Mal ,'Safe'


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 - Oct 04, 2005 2:36:07 pm PDT #4471 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Woohoo, Deb! That is fantastic.


deborah grabien - Oct 04, 2005 2:37:27 pm PDT #4472 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

In which Ringan - and the reader - realise just who is haunting who in this one....


Susan W. - Oct 04, 2005 2:44:23 pm PDT #4473 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Yay, Deb!

My editing process has slowed down this week what with all I have to do getting ready for the conference this weekend. Also, I'm having to rewrite one chapter completely, and since I just saw Serenity last night, Jack keeps wanting to talk like Mal.


SailAweigh - Oct 04, 2005 6:33:47 pm PDT #4474 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Divided

He sat across from me for twenty years. The table was carefully arranged to accommodate two lefties: Jim and I--the righties--on one side, Mike across from us--by himself, Mom on the end. Mike played linchpin in our fights, deciding alliances, so it served parental double duty—divide and conquer. It came in handy the time I threw the chair at him. I couldn’t throw it over the table, so I had to settle for throwing it at the ground.

I would give anything to be able to set the chair down for him to sit at, again.


Beverly - Oct 04, 2005 7:39:11 pm PDT #4475 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Sail, that's poignant, and very image-ful.

Susan, break out the Sharpe dvds and get Jack's voice back.

Deb, damn. Was it just last night we were burrito hunting and talking writing? I can't wait to read the whole of Cruel Sister. It may top Matty for sheer terror-building for the reader. It's a great send-off for the characters and the series.


deborah grabien - Oct 04, 2005 9:40:22 pm PDT #4476 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Sail, that was lovely.

Bev, I'm not sure my editor thinks it's the send-off. Her email about it was subject-lined "Next in the series".

Ummmm.....


Susan W. - Oct 04, 2005 9:43:38 pm PDT #4477 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Susan, break out the Sharpe dvds and get Jack's voice back.

Ah, yes. "Research."


Topic!Cindy - Oct 05, 2005 1:30:48 am PDT #4478 of 10001
What is even happening?

My editing process has slowed down this week what with all I have to do getting ready for the conference this weekend. Also, I'm having to rewrite one chapter completely, and since I just saw Serenity last night, Jack keeps wanting to talk like Mal.

Hee!


erikaj - Oct 05, 2005 4:47:47 am PDT #4479 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

I'm a giant mimic like that, Susan. That is why I've not read Deb's book yet. Because I'll get this. "Who's British?"
"What?"
"Is he that Bennett guy?"
So I have read nothing but hardboiled books and "Practical Homicide" for about six weeks.


deborah grabien - Oct 05, 2005 5:14:50 am PDT #4480 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

"Is he that Bennett guy?"

BWAH! "Good morning, Gordon."

edit: BTW, I'm a few steps closer to doing something as part of a mystery signing thing in Boston. May be January. Clea Simon's working on it - a place called Newtonville Books.