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The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Cool. An overenthustiastic purge of my collection. I hate it when that happens.
I feel like such a writer, I was going over the V!Giles stuff, came up against the laying/lying verb thing, then glanced at the shelf of writing books and actually pulled one down to use. I've read them all in a general way for info and inspiration, but I'm finally using them as tools.
I must have about a dozen books on writing now. They make me happy.
I'm thinking of calling this Exaltation Remembered
I think it's too long to post here (11,848 words), but comments, either here or in e-mail, are hereby requested of those who have the time and the want.
Deena, it's marvelous! I'm awed, truly. It's very sensual, not just visual but every sense. There's a ruined innocence, a joyous sensuality tainted with the ebbing knowledge of wonders lost, which makes your title very appropriate.
I'm also pissed, because my stupid computer cuts off everything after
"Lili?
"Yes, Eve?"
"Do you still love me?"
and I can't figure out how to read the rest. Help?
Beverly, whitefonted last line:
Lili flashed a fierce grin over her shoulder. "I will until my dying day," and she was gone.
Haven't read it yet (not even the last line that I posted - the advantages of English not being my mother tongue), but bookmarked it for later.
Yeah, that looks like the end there, and a very good end indeed.
Score!!!!
Sorry.
It is truly a lovely thing to want a story ... and then get the story.
Thank you SO much, Deena. That was beautiful.
Nilly, thank you for the last line. This has happened before and I need to find out what to do to fix it, so it doesn't happen again.
Deena, it's going to stay with me, you know. Those visual flashes, images that made a sharp impression, like bits of dreams remembered.
Beverly, thank you. You have made me absolutely gleeful! I love writing this kind of stuff and you have melted me into a puddle of gleeful goo with your reaction.
I've reposted it with some corrections, the title, and a dedication: For ita
I don't promise anything, but I do write better to assignment if anyone else is interested in a story of something mythic with a twist.
Thank you, ita, for giving me the idea. I feel so brilliant today! *g*