Zoe: I thought you wanted to spend more time off-ship this visit. Wash: Out there is seems like it's all fancy parties. I like our party better. The dress code is easier and I know all the steps.

'Shindig'


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.


Beverly - Feb 26, 2006 9:53:46 am PST #5597 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Oh Amy, that nails it. Perfectly. Yes, that's exactly how it was.

I wanted to write about my crush's 59 black Caddy we called "The Hearse," but all I would have come up with is your drabble, and you did it better.

Deb's copy editor needs an ectomy of her literal gland., or an imagination infusion.


SailAweigh - Feb 26, 2006 10:03:52 am PST #5598 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Amy, that is a good one. That kind of thing and the posturing in loud cars down the main drag on a Friday night. Good times.

A Sunday Drive

“What are you doing?”

I unzipped his pants and settled in his lap. The dress had a tube top; it was a simple matter to shove it down over my breasts. He looked at them with interest, but his eyes kept darting up and away.

“I don’t think this is a good idea.”

“Come on, you like to live dangerously.”

“But I can’t see!”

“Here, let me lean this way a little.” Too late, the car veered into the ditch and just as violently careened back onto the road. We came to a jittering stop.

“Well, that was something different.”


deborah grabien - Feb 26, 2006 10:27:05 am PST #5599 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

(snerk)

Bev, what my copy editor needs is to try and understand that, if you can trust me to write a publishable novel based on the lyrics in the first place, you can probably trust me to post the right lyrics.

This sort of thing infuriates me, and it has nothing to do with ego. The problem is that it adds time and trouble to an already long editing process, and it isn't necessary.


Gus - Feb 26, 2006 1:13:58 pm PST #5600 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

Tell someone you're anti-homophonic, and watch their brains blank out.

...


Gus - Feb 26, 2006 2:59:44 pm PST #5601 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

if you can trust me to write a publishable novel based on the lyrics in the first place, you can probably trust me to post the right lyrics...

Sure. Like anyone in New York has ever trusted anyone, about anything.

The true motto of NY: "Check your trust at the border."


Gus - Feb 26, 2006 8:56:20 pm PST #5602 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

I am reading a "note" over and over. Editors of text do not use marks which mean things to programmers. It all seems to be about the layout of the frackin' thing.

Lay it out as you will. Just send dollars.


Gus - Feb 26, 2006 9:17:45 pm PST #5603 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

I am not kidding. I'm staring at these glyphs and thinking ... "Ah! They are dialing a StarGate!"


deborah grabien - Feb 26, 2006 9:58:25 pm PST #5604 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Gus, I feel your pain. I dealt with that crap last year and the guy wrote it all on post-it notes. And 99% of them were layout questions.

I have never written "Not the writer's purview" so many times before, and I'm damned if I ever intend to again.


Volans - Feb 27, 2006 3:37:54 am PST #5605 of 10001
move out and draw fire

Write them back, "I'm the content, you're the CSS, bucko."

He called me "funnier than a monkey in a crack house, and twice as twisted."

Now THIS is a t-shirt!


erikaj - Feb 27, 2006 3:54:22 am PST #5606 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

Don't get him started on the T-shirts again.