Flower or Petal? Guess thats kind of old too. W need input from an actual English woman. Oh Fay...?
Giles: I'm sure we're all perfectly safe. Dawn: We're safe. Right. And Spike built a robot Buffy to play checkers with. Tara: It sounded convincing when I thought it.
'Dirty Girls'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
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Typo Boy - Aug 30, 2006 11:10:55 am PDT #8195 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.
Amy - Aug 30, 2006 11:13:39 am PDT #8196 of 10001
Because books.
Flower or Petal?
I'm thinking more of a way to refer to a woman, not something you'd call her. As in, "I'm chuffed I met such a brilliant [insert word here]."
Topic!Cindy - Aug 30, 2006 11:19:40 am PDT #8197 of 10001
What is even happening?
...woman?
Amy - Aug 30, 2006 11:20:16 am PDT #8198 of 10001
Because books.
Hush, you.
Aims - Aug 30, 2006 11:33:28 am PDT #8199 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
poppet?? (heh)
Topic!Cindy - Aug 30, 2006 12:28:48 pm PDT #8200 of 10001
What is even happening?
Amy, what's the sentence, otherwise? You don't want to over-slang it.
Amy - Aug 30, 2006 2:53:30 pm PDT #8201 of 10001
Because books.
No one sentence. I've got a Brit hero, and I had him calling her a pretty bird at one point, and it just felt ... weird. I wanted to know if there was something I could plug in at different points (because he's North London, uses a lot of slang).
Consuela - Aug 30, 2006 3:10:39 pm PDT #8202 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So I submitted a story in response to a call for submissions by an environmental magazine that doesn't usually run fiction. But it was a concept I thought I could do a decent job with, and I got some great beta on it (::waves at Betsy and Katie::). I was not surprised to receive a nicely-worded rejection, including a hand-written note from the fiction editor for the issue (a Hugo nominee this year).
All this happened months ago, but the SF issue of the magazine was supposed to run this summer, so I stopped by the website to see what they chose.
Turned out that they didn't accept any stories. The writers submitting had all failed to include one particular element in their stories--an element that the call for submissions had never mentioned.
Contrary to acknowledging this, the editor of the magazine merely snarked that the SF community "couldn't rise to the challenge", and published only the novella by the fiction editor of the issue.
I'm quite put out. I waste enough time in my professional life responding to poorly-written requests for proposals: why should I do it for fun?
Strix - Aug 30, 2006 3:26:54 pm PDT #8203 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
You might be able to approach Barnes and Noble, Target, Costco and the like, and end up with gift certificates, with which you can purchase more books. The Target corporation has all sorts of community programs, including a grant program: [link]
Cindy, great idea. I'm scheduling ameeting with B&N, and I will look into Target -- god knows I've pumped enough into their coffers, esp. for prescriptions!
-t - Aug 30, 2006 4:06:35 pm PDT #8204 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, that's aggravating, Consuela.
I hope that that's not a common failing of requests for submissions.