I think publishers will fear it, maybe.
I hope not. It sounds the most you-like of them all. Plus, funny.
Danger's my birthright.
Buffy ,'The Killer In Me'
Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
amych - Nov 17, 2005 11:47:05 am PST #4960 of 10006
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
sarameg - Nov 17, 2005 11:47:53 am PST #4961 of 10006
I like Hate then Life Lessons the best. But I have a somewhat irrational (ok, maybe all the way irrational) dislike of tao of titles. I'd blame it on freshman english, but that'd probably just be making something up.
Why does the sky always start falling when I'm about to be able to do nothing about it?
erikaj - Nov 17, 2005 11:48:55 am PST #4962 of 10006
Always Anti-fascist!
And it'll leap out on the shelf. I love that, even if mine don't.
brenda m - Nov 17, 2005 11:49:20 am PST #4963 of 10006
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
The Kid Behind the Counter Hates You
Love this, and I don't see it as particularly unmarketable.
amych - Nov 17, 2005 11:51:06 am PST #4964 of 10006
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
But I have a somewhat irrational (ok, maybe all the way irrational) dislike of tao of titles.
I have a totally rational dislike of them. They always sound to me like copycat advice books propped up on really vagued-up Eastern bullshit and sold to business types. (And, sadly, I don't disagree at all with the "marketable" assessment.)
aurelia - Nov 17, 2005 11:52:45 am PST #4965 of 10006
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Love this, and I don't see it as particularly unmarketable.
And the "tao of" titles are probably a little too numerous at this point.
§ ita § - Nov 17, 2005 11:53:11 am PST #4966 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They always sound to me like copycat advice books propped up on really vagued-up Eastern bullshit and sold to business types. (And, sadly, I don't disagree at all with the "marketable" assessment.)
There's always "Zen and the Art of Lingerie Sales."
Ginger - Nov 17, 2005 11:55:54 am PST #4967 of 10006
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Or "Zen and the Pantyhose Man"
lisah - Nov 17, 2005 11:55:57 am PST #4968 of 10006
Punishingly Intricate
I'm partial to The Kid Behind the Counter Hates You. I think publishers will fear it, maybe.
A Pantyhose Man is a much scarier concept to me!
(I think both of those titles are great. I'm not a publisher though.)
sumi - Nov 17, 2005 11:57:37 am PST #4969 of 10006
Art Crawl!!!
Happy Birthday Jilli! I hope that the procedure goes well.
Isn't it funny how it seems that every year all the OTHER guys in People's Sexiest Man alive are sexier than the guy on the cover?
And for askye's fluffy cat, may I suggest the Norwegian Forest Cat? They are like a cobbier Maine Coon Cat and I met a most impressive one at a cat show. His front paws were at least as big, if not bigger than my hands.
