OK, I'm sorry that you have to deal with the inanity, deb, but that's really funny.
Love isn't brains, children, it's blood, blood screaming inside you to work its will.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
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.
-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
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...
Gus - Mar 25, 2006 12:54:51 pm PST #5814 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Okay, galley is done. Dead trees? In the mail.
On final analysis ... on reading the thing as if it was a book I'd purchased ...
... It sucks. The language has a pleasant rhythm that drags the eye along, and the world-building has an inner consistency that mostly works, but it is not about anything new.
Typo Boy - Mar 25, 2006 1:00:09 pm PST #5815 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Nothing new under the sun, Gus.
Bit by bit
Putting it together
Piece by piece
Only way to make a work of art
Every moment makes a contribution
Every little detail plays a part
Having just the vision's no solution
Everything depends on execution
Putting it together - that's what counts"
Yeah, a Sondheim quote, not his best but I think the point is a good one.
So if "The language has a pleasant rhythm that drags the eye along, and the world-building has an inner consistency that mostly works, but it is not about anything new". Hey as long as the first two are true, and it is in fact about something then the fact that this something is not new is irrelevent and probably unavoidable.
Gus - Mar 25, 2006 1:23:24 pm PST #5816 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Thanks for the encourage-boo, Typo.
It is about this boy who meets this girl. The girl decides to back his play, mostly because he looks good in pants.
SailAweigh - Mar 25, 2006 1:27:58 pm PST #5817 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
mostly because he looks good in pants.
That wouldn't be my logic, but, hey, to each her own.
Gus - Mar 25, 2006 1:34:55 pm PST #5818 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
That wouldn't be my logic, but, hey, to each her own.
See? I know nothing about why women do anything about anything.
erikaj - Mar 25, 2006 2:42:36 pm PST #5819 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Well, I guess you need to talk to more of us...and I think I don't mean porn.
Beverly - Mar 25, 2006 8:50:40 pm PST #5820 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Title, please, Gus? Need to know how to look it up in the bookstore.
deborah grabien - Mar 25, 2006 9:52:16 pm PST #5821 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Yep - what Bev asked, Gus. And what's the release date?