there will be a READERVILLE WRITERS EVENING
Yay! Deb and Marta, plus others, on the same bill!
Mal: How drunk was I last night? Jayne: Well I dunno. I passed out.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Beverly - Jul 14, 2003 11:00:50 am PDT #1640 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Steph L. - Jul 14, 2003 11:01:29 am PDT #1641 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Deb! So cool!
Susan W. - Jul 14, 2003 11:02:05 am PDT #1642 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
My speaking voice and singing voice are similar (and reasonably pleasing to the ear, if I do say so myself), but I can project effortlessly when speaking. When singing, I'm a bit on the soft side.
Betsy HP - Jul 14, 2003 2:35:47 pm PDT #1643 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Deb, how did the reeducation go?
Ms. Havisham - Jul 14, 2003 5:53:16 pm PDT #1644 of 10001
And we will call it... "This Land."
Hooray for Deb! And how did/didn't the reeducation go?
I can talk. Really. I just don't choose to. And I spent some years in the school chorus and some years taking piano lessons and plus spent my formative years in a Southern Baptist church so I actually sing much louder than I talk. (that can work against me in, say, a Catholic church where everybody's murmuring the melody rather than actually singing) I like to think I've got a gritty-contralto thing going but, well, that could all be in my head.
deborah grabien - Jul 14, 2003 9:10:34 pm PDT #1645 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I am so tired. So very, very tired.
And BTW, readerville's Marta isn't my MIL; this is Marta Randall, who wrote "Islands", "Mapping Winter", former president of SFWA. But I am very much looking forward to it, as much as I can look forward to anything tonight. It's been a long day, and not only the reeducation aprt.
I have no voice, as in, my voice is a croak right now. I talked at them and talked at them and then I talked some more, and I started at 1 and ended at 6:45. They are very sweet people, they listened to me, they took copious notes. I have no idea if it worked.
They seem to think the bulk of the weekend and 5.5 hours today was worth rather more than $100. They'll send a cheque and we'll see.
I'd like a week of sleep, and I am not going to get it. Am I?
sj - Jul 14, 2003 9:14:07 pm PDT #1646 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
They seem to think the bulk of the weekend and 5.5 hours today was worth rather more than $100. They'll send a cheque and we'll see.
They are very right. I hope you are rewarded for your efforts both monetarily and in their actually understanding what you were trying to tell them.
Susan W. - Jul 14, 2003 9:21:59 pm PDT #1647 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Wow. 5.5 hours. I'm impressed.
In my writing news, I've realized that I have an adverb problem. As in, too often my people say things comfortably, or angrily, or defensively, or whatever. I realized this while reading Stephen King's review of HP5, a quite positive review that did however rebuke Rowling for doing the same thing. I'm not saying adverbs in dialogue attributions are universally bad; nor, I think, is King. However, I've been overdoing it. In the passage I took to writers' group tonight, I had a "defensively", "coolly", and "reasonably" for lines of dialogue that couldn't really be read any other way. (she said shamefacedly)
deborah grabien - Jul 14, 2003 9:22:07 pm PDT #1648 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
sj, I hope so too. I got very, very tired of earnest voices, chiming in unison, "but we researched that part..."
Yes, darlings, but your research is not fiction. Repeat after me. Your research is not fiction. it's a tool to enable you to create composites that resolve into believable characters.
deborah grabien - Jul 14, 2003 9:27:22 pm PDT #1649 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
(Sorry - got pulled off that last post early to go watch today's amazing disaster thing from the Tour de France. Whooooeeee...)
I don't object to adverbs at all, but I don't go overboard either; part of that is the way I tend to structure sentences. Rather than, say
"That's not what I meant at all," she said defensively
I'm far more like to write something like
"That's not what I meant at all." She sounded defensive.
It's not watching grammar, it's just the way I perceive interactions in which I'm not involved.