Book ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
I have no interest in writing screenplays or teleplays, but I'll probably buy that disk.
Me neither Betsy, but it was fascinating.
Well, I'd love to be able to write screenplays. I've no ear for dialogue, though. Kristen says I can learn to do it, but it seems such a shaky ground.
Anyway, Tim was an excellent teacher.
There's probably a worse way to go than "no ear for dialogue." Like, "no heart for story" or "no yarn for needles." This is still the crafts thread, right?
Fury wrote me a blurb. But I guess only Emmy nominated writers can write blurbs.
oooh, BURN!
Maybe Nilly can Nilly me up a blurb.
Tim said nice things about my writing in here, once, i think.
I'll give you a blurb. You can pretend I'm famous!
I'll be famous once your book sells a brazilian copies. Want a blurb?
"Allyson captures my essence with a precision that makes me warm and fuzzy, as did her hostessing."
Maybe your mom and dad can give me blurbs, ita!
That'd be AWESOME.
"I almost met Allyson once, but got lost instead. Reading her book is the next best thing!"
"Hello, we're Tim's beagles. If we could talk (and read, for that matter) we'd be telling you how good this book is."
Blurbs can be powerful things. I checked out The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks based on the jacket blurbs, including one from William Gibson ("Banks is a phenomenon...Wildly successful, fearlessly creative.") and one proclaiming that it is a Hugo nominee for Best Novel. I gave up after ten pages.
Sample:
Luseferous had long, sheen-black straight hair and a naturally pale complexion which had been skilfully augmented to make his skin nearly pure white. His eyes were artificially large, but just close enough to congenitally possible for people to be unsure whether they had been augmented or not. The whites beyond the black irises were a deep, livid red, and every one of his teeth had been carefully replaced with a pure, clear diamond, giving his mouth an appearance which varied from bizarre, mediaeval toothlessness to startling, glistening brilliance, entirely depending on angle and light.