Dude, I'm reading about Esperanto, and then I discovered Riism. It's like a language patch!! Now I want to see the one that turns all nouns into strippers.
I'm sorry. You were going to ask me to choose, right? Did you want to finish?
Zoe ,'War Stories'
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."
Polter-Cow - Jan 10, 2008 8:53:43 am PST #4671 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Jesse - Jan 10, 2008 9:18:50 am PST #4672 of 28342
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I used to study Esperanto by mail.
OMG, I think I did too. Or, at least, I once mailed away for something about Esperanto.
§ ita § - Jan 10, 2008 9:31:20 am PST #4673 of 28342
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We had study sheets, and we'd do exercises, and then we'd mail them back in, and get new stuff. Such keeners.
Miracleman - Jan 10, 2008 9:34:05 am PST #4674 of 28342
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Now I want to see the one that turns all nouns into strippers.
"Funny...Joe never has a second noun at home..."
Dana - Jan 10, 2008 11:38:08 am PST #4675 of 28342
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Polter-Cow - Jan 10, 2008 11:39:57 am PST #4676 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
As a writer, a reader and a victim of plagiarism, I feel very strongly on this issue.
She does not appear to feel very strongly on THE SERIAL COMMA.
Dana - Jan 10, 2008 11:41:01 am PST #4677 of 28342
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
She's probably used to AP style, which eschews the serial comma.
Edit: Or possibly what I meant to say is that the article's in AP style. I don't know how they handle direct quotes from e-mail.
lisah - Jan 10, 2008 11:45:01 am PST #4678 of 28342
Punishingly Intricate
"When you write historical romances, you're not asked to do that," Edwards said, speaking from her home in Mattoon, Illinois.
god. Dumbass.
Volans - Jan 10, 2008 11:45:55 am PST #4679 of 28342
move out and draw fire
And coincidentally, I was just listening to an interview with William Gibson, in which he said "Now there's a metanovel hovering over my work, the idea that readers can, and will, go google everything in the book."
I suppose Cassie Edwards didn't think her reader base would google.
meara - Jan 10, 2008 5:05:00 pm PST #4680 of 28342
Sure, you're not asked to attribute your sources, or footnote, when writing a historical novel (though I have seen BOTH done. And endnotes).
But not even bothering to freakin' PARAPHRASE? That's what really gets me. Just paraphrase a LITTLE bit, and no one would ever have noticed. YEEESH.