Or Jennifer Love Hewitt.
So there is something I can do, besides scream like a woman?
Wesley ,'Chosen'
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."
brenda m - Feb 26, 2010 6:00:17 am PST #10967 of 28352
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
Polter-Cow - Feb 26, 2010 6:14:05 am PST #10968 of 28352
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I tend to think of 'hero' as a gender neutral word.
No, I get it. Wren certainly seems as though she's the "hero" of the book, being the protagonist and main character.
Dargan Knight is a pretty great name, though.
Amy - Feb 26, 2010 6:16:15 am PST #10969 of 28352
Because books.
If it's a romance, there's a hero *and* a heroine, as ever. This chick just ... sucks. Which is why she's essentially self-publishing.
Gudanov - Feb 26, 2010 6:23:11 am PST #10970 of 28352
Coding and Sleeping
I think being embroiled in fantasy has skewed me.
When mocking writing, I always have the inner fear that mine is even worse.
Toddson - Feb 26, 2010 6:51:38 am PST #10971 of 28352
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
What gets me is that the book is WOVEN ... is this some new kind of craft?
erikaj - Feb 26, 2010 7:42:28 am PST #10972 of 28352
Always Anti-fascist!
My novel got the ultimate bad "review" in that my mother got to some point halfway and couldn't finish it...the only bright spot is that I think we saw problems at the same spot. But, still, that kind of stung. I still like the first half, though. Not as badly as if it had come out and people were pointing and laughing and shit, though.
Connie Neil - Feb 26, 2010 8:04:09 am PST #10973 of 28352
brillig
Why couldn't she finish it?
erikaj - Feb 26, 2010 8:27:06 am PST #10974 of 28352
Always Anti-fascist!
It seems to have lost the attention of most of my intimates about page 200, Connie. But when I asked her why, she thought I was pissed(or maybe she's just not used to taking written things apart, and felt she didn't have the words to explain.) I even tried "Pretend you bought this and I didn't write it," but it didn't really help. I have a bunch of great characters looking for a plot was my opinion, when I read it back last.
Strix - Feb 26, 2010 12:50:36 pm PST #10975 of 28352
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
You know, I wish my on-line Comp course wasn't preloaded, because having my students transform epubbed romance paragraphs into correct grammatical constructions would be a lot more entertaining than sentences about Socrates and Thrasymachus.
"The dripping wetness" is the subject; dripping modifies wetness. It's a descriptor.
"Her cavern that was honeyed was being explored by the sword of man which belonged To Dragan." Watch typos, please, and put this into ACTIVE voice. What is the subject? The man-sword. To whom did it belong? What is Dragan's man-sword doing?
Katerina Bee - Feb 26, 2010 1:18:26 pm PST #10976 of 28352
Herding cats for fun
Wow, the editorial services at iUniverse are kinda pricey. Reckon fixin' up the MS is a service to humanity in all too many cases. I shudder to think of what ends up in the "jokes" pile back at the office over there.
Wren accidentally lost her virginity when she left it on a bus headed for Tucson. It eventually found its way back home, but ever after it was infested with a tawdry romance novel sensibility that horrified her.