Simon: Captain's a good fighter, he must know how to handle a sword. Zoe: I think he knows which end to hold.

'Shindig'


The Great Write Way  

A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.


Beverly - Oct 20, 2002 3:55:03 pm PDT #135 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Yes, you did use assuming, because you're smart, and with the words. Which apparently I am not today.

Nor the typing, if it takes three times to type 'today' correctly.


Hil R. - Oct 20, 2002 4:07:55 pm PDT #136 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I think that the quadriplegic thing would be OK if you make it slightly more over-the-top and include "perfect candidate" things other than the community service. Like, get rid of "all-honors," because it's a bit redundant with "valedictorian." Throw in that the person was also all-state in three sports and one or two other modifiers. Maybe throw in something like "Not that I haven't done my share of community service, but..." Make it clear that what you're (lightly) mocking is the student who does everything, not the community service itself.


Holli - Oct 20, 2002 4:25:43 pm PDT #137 of 10001
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore

Hmm. Maybe change "all-honors valedictorian" to something like "champion pole-vaulting valedictorian slam poet"?


erikaj - Oct 20, 2002 4:38:08 pm PDT #138 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

yeah, use that, Holli.


Connie Neil - Oct 20, 2002 4:52:16 pm PDT #139 of 10001
brillig

That's got my vote. Anything else, and you'd just have to call them Buckaroo Banzai and be done with it.


jengod - Oct 20, 2002 8:32:19 pm PDT #140 of 10001

I loved the disabled war orphans.


Liese S. - Oct 23, 2002 9:09:09 pm PDT #141 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Rebecca Lizard - Oct 24, 2002 7:46:40 am PDT #142 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

MOVIE POEM II			Alanna Simpson

tattered habit, out of my throat (it's cheerful) ribbon of blood regard and hooded director until the bars are shifting (they're removing clothing) in the movie -- until it's patterns striping across sand pelican wheeling in circles above our heads this thing is still minstrelsy green and leafing (shoot stalk blade) mannequins standard pole, sticking ingots, traverse bloom in the evening truncheon (and that is what I have,) hall, melodic and posing, or eventual laceration; repetition of body and Richter scale moving orange spray special (if it's at this) dis believe her

I'm writing for a new poetic persona, a character in my mother's new novel.


Betsy HP - Oct 25, 2002 12:37:16 pm PDT #143 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

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Do buyers from chain bookstores and big-box stores (Costco, Wal-Mart) ever ask publishers to change the content of a book? Word is that they do this just enough to scare authors and editors to death, but evidence of the practice has been nearly impossible to find.
Now comes news that Wal-Mart - or more specifically, Anderson Merchandising, the distributor whose sole client is Wal-Mart - has asked a publisher of romance novels, Dorchester Publishing Co., to change the content of a book to make it more "appropriate." It appears that a buyer at Anderson took one look at advance excerpts from Susan Grant's fourth book, "Contact," a lead romance novel from Dorchester's imprint, LoveSpell, and decided that the airplane hijacking theme of the story was "inappropriate" a year after 9/11. Changes in "editorial content" were requested by Anderson/Wal-Mart, but Dorchester refused, bless 'em. As as a result, "Contact" was declined by Anderson and is not sold in Wal-Mart stores. (Interestingly, it's available through Wal-Mart online, but that seems to be another story.)


DXMachina - Oct 25, 2002 12:49:24 pm PDT #144 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

(Interestingly, it's available through Wal-Mart online, but that seems to be another story.)

Which sort of implies that it's Anderson and not Wal-Mart that's the problem.