I already know what I'm gonna call her. Got a name all picked out...

Mal ,'Out Of Gas'


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."


Gudanov - Feb 26, 2010 6:23:11 am PST #10970 of 28351
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 28351
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 28351
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 28351
brillig

Why couldn't she finish it?


erikaj - Feb 26, 2010 8:27:06 am PST #10974 of 28351
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 28351
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 28351
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.


Amy - Feb 26, 2010 1:42:01 pm PST #10977 of 28351
Because books.

I shudder to think of what ends up in the "jokes" pile back at the office over there.

There are none, is the thing. Authors can go with whatever range of services they can afford, and the book still ends up being printed.

There are a lot of reasons working there was really hard. The staff is great; the manuscripts often made me tear my hair out.


Katerina Bee - Feb 26, 2010 2:49:39 pm PST #10978 of 28351
Herding cats for fun

I'm sad to hear you don't have a Pile of Shame collection for mocking and jeering. When I worked for a quick print chain, we had a collection of worst things customers ever gave us, and we even filed them in case we needed to be cheered up and feel superior to the customers for awhile.

My favorite document came to us as a resume. The guy stated that he'd spent the last few years hiking the mountains of Santa Cruz and smokin' God's ganja. We were pretty sure he'd have had trouble transitioning to the 9-5 grind in a manner that would have benefited us, so alas. No interview for Weed Man. But his resume lived on anyway.


Connie Neil - Feb 28, 2010 2:01:05 pm PST #10979 of 28351
brillig

I have achieved a book acquisition goal by finally buying The Great Book of Amber, which is all of the Amber novels in one place. Ten books. Maybe now I can keep track of all the politics. God, how I miss new books by Zelazny.