That's one vote!
Like any of that's enough to fight the Dark Master. Bator.
Xander ,'Lessons'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
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Amy - Mar 20, 2008 12:11:48 pm PDT #9917 of 10001
Because books.
SailAweigh - Mar 20, 2008 12:18:19 pm PDT #9918 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I dunno, my mind went immediately to Hungry Like the Wolf and big hair bands.
Amy - Mar 20, 2008 12:19:45 pm PDT #9919 of 10001
Because books.
So which one do you like? It's okay if it's none of them.
Ginger - Mar 20, 2008 12:24:11 pm PDT #9920 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The story would be a different twist on Poe's "Premature Burial."
I like "Hungry as the Grave," particularly since I found this:
Cruel as Death, and hungry as the Grave!
Burning for blood! bony, and gaunt, and grim!
Assembling wolves in raging troops descend;
And, pouring o'er the country, bear along,
Keen as the north wind sweeps the glossy snows.
All is their prize.
The Seasons: Winter, J. Thomson
Typo Boy - Mar 20, 2008 12:25:41 pm PDT #9921 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.
There is another ballad similar to the "Unquiet Grave" .
A wife mourns her dead husband excessively, the dead husband comes back to comfort her. The results are not good.
Umm, obviously I don't remember the name.
Allyson - Mar 20, 2008 12:30:49 pm PDT #9922 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Ooof. I have huge writer's block, made worse by trying to sort out chapter subjects that all seem to flow together.
-t - Mar 20, 2008 12:32:13 pm PDT #9923 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I dunno, my mind went immediately to Hungry Like the Wolf and big hair bands.
Me, too, but that doesn't seem like a downside. I like Hungry As the Grave.
Amy - Mar 20, 2008 12:33:08 pm PDT #9924 of 10001
Because books.
I have huge writer's block, made worse by trying to sort out chapter subjects that all seem to flow together.
Lay 'em out for us.
Toddson - Mar 20, 2008 12:39:30 pm PDT #9925 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
oh ... how about The Empty Grave?
Allyson - Mar 20, 2008 12:44:03 pm PDT #9926 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Okay, I have so far:
The Atheist's Guide to Tragedy: The superstitious nature of my neighbors, the great lyme disease exorcism, focuses mainly on the twins across the hall.
I Could've Had a V8: My next door neighbor is a stripper in a Hell's Angels bar, a hairdresser in a hipster salon, and the house mother. We're the grownups, which is sort of sad.
The Pumpkin Man of Los Feliz Village (about the community garden, my city councilman, and the evil building manager)
Cobras and Matadors (about the restaurants, clubs, shops, and neighborhood gossip surrounding them)
The Lawnmower Ghosts (about the Mexican gardeners and maids who float through the neighborhood, invisible to almost everyone)
The Coke Machine Taunter of Hillhurst Avenue: About the homeless in my neighborhood.
This is the first half of the book. I have no idea what I'm doing for the second half. Mostly it's all sort of hazy stuff. I have a general idea for a chapter on the fire, perhaps to be titled, "The Liquor Store Is Always Open."