Wash: So, two days in a hospital? That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors? Simon: Hey. Wash: I mean, present company excluded. Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.

'Ariel'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."


erikaj - Oct 22, 2009 8:41:43 am PDT #10250 of 28377
Always Anti-fascist!

My favorite silver fox has written four books, so I'm gonna play like I'm on topic. [link] The dark glasses look good in this photo, compared to in-studio where they made me think either: "Hello, President Johnson," or "Hi, my young girlfriend made me think I could look like Elvis Costello if I bought these."


Frankenbuddha - Oct 22, 2009 9:36:24 am PDT #10251 of 28377
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Oops, my bad, Hec. I could have sworn that conversation was in a different thread.


Atropa - Oct 22, 2009 3:59:19 pm PDT #10252 of 28377
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Bekka Black's iDRACULA,

AAUUUUGH.

brb, must pick up debris from head explody.


§ ita § - Oct 22, 2009 4:08:51 pm PDT #10253 of 28377
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Thanks, guys. I will be snarfing these up as soon as I get home.


Polter-Cow - Oct 22, 2009 5:22:36 pm PDT #10254 of 28377
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

What does "cell novel form" mean?

I hope to God it doesn't mean what I think it means, which is a book told entirely in text messages.


Steph L. - Oct 22, 2009 5:22:49 pm PDT #10255 of 28377
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

LOL


Polter-Cow - Oct 22, 2009 5:26:27 pm PDT #10256 of 28377
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Cell phone novel.

I...don't even know.


Strix - Oct 22, 2009 6:48:14 pm PDT #10257 of 28377
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Huh. Interesting. Now, I read books on my itouch and on my computer -- instant gratification is EXCELLENT at 3 am when you've discovered a new series, or if you are in your underwear and scraggly hair -- but I cannot imagine WRITING anything lengthy on a cell.


P.M. Marc - Oct 22, 2009 7:53:31 pm PDT #10258 of 28377
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I, err.

::coughs::

Yeah, I've probably written at least 10,000 words of fiction on my iPhone, some of it through texting, some in note form.

I usually wind up with 300-400 word chunks that I quilt together and expand in the final versions, but really, most of my drafting now happens on the phone.


DavidS - Oct 22, 2009 8:04:35 pm PDT #10259 of 28377
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Cell phone/text novels are a big deal in Japan where they've been popular for years.

Really just updating the format of the old epistleatory novel, like Dangerous Liaisons.