O, my luscious Buffistas, awaiting mailboxes is for the infirm of heart.
Mail the thing.
Imagine even more. This is the way.
Or it could be. Or not. Crap! I really suck at this Yoda shit.
You know, it's funny. We went to war never looking to come back, but it's the real world I couldn't survive.
Tracy ,'The Message'
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.
Gus - Mar 24, 2006 7:42:09 pm PST #5804 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
deborah grabien - Mar 24, 2006 7:44:07 pm PST #5805 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Crap! I really suck at this Yoda shit.
muHA!
"Step away from the email notification, young Jedi..."
I just sent my Kinkaid WIP reading list new stuff. Second part of chapter two. Must eat dinner now...
Consuela - Mar 24, 2006 7:51:33 pm PST #5806 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I mean, haunting waiting for them to send me a check or the damned thing back, Gus. It was mailed this morning.
And bless Betsy for the machete and Micole for the encouragement.
Gus - Mar 24, 2006 7:58:58 pm PST #5807 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
I mean, ... waiting for them to send me a check or the damned thing back...It was mailed this morning.
Just thought you might want see that again, for a reality check, 'Suela.
Gus - Mar 24, 2006 8:06:24 pm PST #5808 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
I am looking now at a page of my galley.
From the first line to the last, there is no sense. It is all guttural noises and punctuation.
deborah grabien - Mar 24, 2006 8:13:12 pm PST #5809 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Gus, that may be a signal that you need to put it away for the night.
Seriously. My own "ok, back up and away honey, do it NOW" signal is when I find I'm answering a perfectly reasonable copy-editor query by typing in "(rolls eyes FOREVER)" or "I don't CARE what the transitive form is, damn it!"
Gus - Mar 24, 2006 8:28:28 pm PST #5810 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Hearing the beat that DG is laying out, in a big way.
Reading your own stuff is hard enough.
deborah grabien - Mar 24, 2006 8:33:46 pm PST #5811 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
It was suggested to me, elsewhere, that every writer not only needs a "stet" stamp: s/he needs a "FOaD!" Stamp.
As in, "fuck off and die".
I'd actually love one of those, so I could stamp it all over my tax returns.
Although one of the things this particular copy-editor got completely wrong was not realising that "woad" - as in, source of blue dyes - was the word I had not only typed, but meant to type. He tried changing it to "wood" and then asked me to check my sources, as one cannot get blue dye from wood.
I would have liked a stamp that said "W-O-A-D. F-O-A-D."
-t - Mar 25, 2006 7:26:00 am PST #5812 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
OK, I'm sorry that you have to deal with the inanity, deb, but that's really funny.
deborah grabien - Mar 25, 2006 7:32:56 am PST #5813 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
that's really funny.
I know. I was laughing even while I was damaging my forehead by pounding it against the keyboard.
Same copy guy did the same thing in "Matty Groves". He very carefully wrote out - on a series of post-its, mind you, apparently using the leg off a lilliputian spider - every definition he could find for "baiting", in reference to me spelling the word wrong.
Only one he left out was the definition, and spelling, I'd used: bating, a sudden upward movement of a falcon's wings, usually when startled.
Fuckwit. I so do need that FOAD stamp...