OMG! Too funny! Perhaps MM's line belongs in the weird meara-provided bestiality romance novel from the first F2F!

BWAH!

Maybe CE is now going to compare the burden of scrutiny her work is now undergoing to being swathed in smallpox-ridden blankets.

If she can find some previous author who described what that feels like, anyway...

(sputter)

MM, you had me face down on my desk giggling uncontrollably (luckily, I wasn't drinking anything at the time, or my computer would have been toast ... ed).

Nine Inch Nails lyrics are difficult to work in, eh?

Well, Yeats was kind of a pain. But I just walk the road mimicking what I hear, as children mimic.

Man. I just read the whole wank. Now am full. May need pepto.

I don't even know where to BEGIN with how awesome this lady is.

I'm still at the OMGWTF ... ferrets?!? stage.

And the guy who wrote the ferret article has chimed in.

This incident needs to be memorialized in our language. She needs a Law or a Principle or a verb. I don't even know what it would refer to, but it should exist.

And the guy who wrote the ferret article has chimed in.

That article needs to be read. It's pretty awesome. He details the entire dialogue, which is a post-coital discovery of ferrets for no apparent reason:

Shiona then tells Shadow Bear how she once read about ferrets in a book she took from the study of her father. "I discovered they are related to minks and otters. It is said their closest relations are European ferrets and Siberian polecats," she says. "Researchers theorize that polecats crossed the land bridge that once linked Siberia and Alaska, to establish the New World population."

Ohmygod that is so hot.

Finally:

Wow, that is some bad dialogue. It stands out as clunky and awkward even by the standards of romance novels. That's because Edwards didn't write it. I did.

That's a great article. And I can't even call the slams at romance novel writing gratuitous, considering the man just slogged through an Edwards.

She needs a Law or a Principle or a verb. I don't even know what it would refer to, but it should exist.

ok, so the Edwards principal is when you, say, reproduce the Magna Carta, call it your own work, then push forward (fake?) family members to smite all doubters, and then go on to liken yourself to a downtrodden tribe (to which you have seem to have no relation, but also seem to have profited mightily from via your writing, which - see above) and then continue to try to suck pity for simply coming up with the simile at all and then...

I vote for naming this whateveritis hubri-plagaris [yes, going snobby latin, but this angers me]. And making it a vice, not a law.

And I'll quit being all offputting now and go back to making inedible chili.