New drabble topic!
Challenge #141 (overqualified) is now closed.
Challenge #142 is recipe(s).
Mix well, bake for 30 minutes, and be sure to post your drabbles!
I hate to break it to you, oh impotent one, but you're not the big bad anymore, you're not even the kind of naughty.
Xander ,'Showtime'
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.
Steph L. - Jan 22, 2007 11:35:51 am PST #8862 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Strix - Jan 22, 2007 12:04:00 pm PST #8863 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
How to Make MarySues:
Dry Ingredients:
1 head of luxurious waving flame-colored tresses
2 too-large-for-fashion, I-regret-that-they-are-too-large, MyLord! firm, rosy-tipped breasts
2 firm-from-riding-wild-talking-stallions legs
2 large, lambent, discerning, desirous amythest eyes
1 serious sense of adventure (unleavened by common sense)
Wet Ingredients:
A sloppy helping of helpless charm
1 tight, pulsating womanhood, moistened by the merest glimpse from the hero's ebon-dark evil eyes
1 heaping handful of Purportedly Spicy Brains
4 pounds of My Lady's Multiple O's, despite the presence of...
1 glistening perfect cherry
Stir briskly with the Beaters of Slick Love, adding a pinch of FeistySpice, and a soupcon of Mi8ken ID for flavor. Bake at the heat of WhiteHot Passion for 3 hours, and serve with 2 Candied Eyes, rolled.
Liese S. - Jan 22, 2007 6:20:08 pm PST #8864 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Bwah!
Strix - Jan 22, 2007 6:28:06 pm PST #8865 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Thanks, Liese. It's not really a drabble, I guess, but it was fun.
Astarte - Jan 23, 2007 5:11:48 am PST #8866 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
Love that, Erin.
Hee.
SailAweigh - Jan 23, 2007 5:36:11 am PST #8867 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Cute, Erin. You should post that at some of the fic archives.
Diego Desperados
The gravel road was a dark gray shadow against the dense growth of scavvy and palm trees. I stubbed my toes on the uneven surface trying to keep pace with Chuck and CJ. While stealth wasn’t necessary at this point, it added to the adrenaline rush making my heart trip uneasily. It wasn’t too late to back out.
Two hot boys, lots of beer and a landrover stolen from the Royal Marines; a recipe for disaster if there ever was one.That was my thought two weeks later when I was standing in front of the C.O. during Captain’s Mast.
editted for more sense making.
Typo Boy - Jan 24, 2007 12:05:53 pm PST #8868 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.
Hah! real bite in that one, and makes me laugh too.
Question: when someone compliments a work by you and likes it more than you do, do you ever have to bite your tongue in order to just say "thank you" rather than correct them?
That is: is your impulse to to correct them and say "no it is really not all that - has the following flaws".
Astarte - Jan 24, 2007 1:44:24 pm PST #8869 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
Bite your tongue till it bleeds. Kill the impulse to self-criticize for an audience. It only makes people feel you're either fishing for compliments or that you think they're stupid.
IOW, why, yes, I know just what you mean.
headdesk
Typo Boy - Jan 24, 2007 1:49:05 pm PST #8870 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.
Thanks. Yeah I know better than do it. That's why the tongue biting, But yeah, it helps to know that others go through it.
Astarte - Jan 25, 2007 9:12:01 am PST #8871 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
Oh, yes, the voices in my head are very active.
My biggest challenge as a writer. Even more than time management.