Mal ,'Jaynestown'
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The usual way, I suspect: random, accidental insemination at a fertility clinic in Tupelo of a beautiful young ingenue who bears an infant son and then dies tragically in a golf cart incident, leaving behind a fortune and a beautiful-yet-emotionally-damaged Postimpressionist little boy.
Well, okay, yes, obviously.
It loses something when you leave out the golf carts and the mystery of how Gaugin's frozen spoodge got to Tupelo.
Doesn't it always?
See now, I had this whole story built up in my head about a Tahitian beauty whose hopes for domestic life with the painter were dashed deciding to take vengeance by raising her offspring to torment and confuse the French for generations to come...
"Per say" annoys me because people who write it clearly think they're being smart.
See now, I had this whole story built up in my head about a Tahitian beauty whose hopes for domestic life with the painter were dashed deciding to take vengeance by raising her offspring to torment and confuse the French for generations to come...
I, too, began with the exotic Tahitian beauty, but the story quickly got derailed by my brain demanding, "What do Tahitians look like, anyway? Because Roy Dupuis does not strike me as an exotic Tahito, yo. Blah blah genetics blah blah imperialism I'm putting far too much thought into this and I now see the flaw in my original plan is that it FAILS TO INCLUDE ELVIS ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE WHEN YOU ADD ELVIS OMGWTFUFO."
Rougher than usual day at work, honey?
Rougher than usual day at work, honey?
You know that sound Westley makes after Count Rugen uses The Machine on him for the first time? I've been making that noise all day.
My pet peeves are "free reign" and "tow the line," especially because I see them more often than the correct versions these days.
Oh, and I've noticed a lot of writers with an otherwise good grip on grammar are flummoxed by plural possessives. I got a manuscript back from a critiquer with the phrase "soldiers' wives" circled. I puzzled for several minutes before I figured out she was correcting my correct usage.
Susan, those are my peeves as well. I also get tetchy when people use "flare" when they mean "flair."
Don't even get me started on epithets (the tiny slayer, the blond vampire, etc.)
And what's with the obsession with full names, first, middle, and last? It's all over fanfic, and I'm starting to see it in unpublished genfic. I can't quite put my finger on why, but it just looks somehow...amateurish to feel compelled to open a story with, "Buffy Anne Summers blah blah blah."