Yes, I have it. half.com has been a big help writing this book(will I ever not feel like a pompous git saying that?) I was just looking in the Style section for it. oops.
I believe that's my hey. Hey!
Xander ,'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.
erikaj - Mar 10, 2005 7:27:41 am PST #476 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
deborah grabien - Mar 10, 2005 7:29:55 am PST #477 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Ruth uses different authors as an example in different years. I showed up in the 1993 edition, and didn't find out it existed until about four years ago.
Nutty - Mar 10, 2005 8:36:14 am PST #478 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I find that my nonfiction voice is very consistent, and comes to me quickly -- because I get a lot of practice with it, here and on LJ and in my job. I do nonfiction all the time, and I've developed a nonfiction manner just by meeting the needs of the several daily communications of my life.
I expect the development of a fiction voice is similar -- doing it makes it develop. (Of course, were I to do Deb's meme, I'd probably pick dialogue, because I am perverse.)
deborah grabien - Mar 10, 2005 8:53:11 am PST #479 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Nutty, I could probably read three sentences in a row of your posts, and know it was you. Your voice is extremely distinctive.
Lyra Jane - Mar 10, 2005 9:16:25 am PST #480 of 10001
Up with the sun
I don't know if I have a voice, or just echo whoever's rattling around in my head. I do think this bit is kind of typical me, especially in that I never finished the essay this was going to be part of.
Often when I start to write (or start to do anything, really, but especially for writing) I find myself thinking of a song from an animated Christmas special -- one of the ones where Santa is sad, I think.
Anyhow, so I sit down to write, and this chorus of Christmas elves starts up in my brain. "Put one foot in front of another," they tell me, "And soon you'll be walking cross the floo-oo-oor. Put one foot in front of the other, and soon you'll be walking out the door."
And that is how I write: foot by foot, word by word, sentence by sentence. I don't know where I'm going: All I know is that if I keep going I'll get there.
Topic!Cindy - Mar 10, 2005 9:21:38 am PST #481 of 10001
What is even happening?
Giles tries to make me his channel, and I am constantly trying to beat him back, because I ain't no Anthony Stewart Head, and I just sound like a pompous ass when I let him come through.
erikaj - Mar 10, 2005 9:26:56 am PST #482 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Sometimes I'm such a mimic, I'm not sure what's me.
Ginger - Mar 10, 2005 9:28:44 am PST #483 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
deborah grabien - Mar 11, 2005 2:47:48 pm PST #484 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Man, it's quiet in here.
Quick, someone write something.
Amy - Mar 11, 2005 4:12:24 pm PST #485 of 10001
Because books.
There once was a man from Nantucket...