You know that article I sold back in June? The check arrived today. It'll probably all go toward our car license renewal, but I'm going to make a copy of it to save before I cash it.
Anya: Are you stupid or something? Giles: Allow me to answer that question with a firing.
'Sleeper'
The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Susan W. - Aug 12, 2003 4:00:47 pm PDT #1756 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
deborah grabien - Aug 12, 2003 4:06:49 pm PDT #1757 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Susan! Yowsa!
Betsy HP - Aug 12, 2003 5:13:09 pm PDT #1758 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Do, Susan. My first check hangs, in photocopy, above my writing workstation.
Beverly - Aug 12, 2003 7:35:14 pm PDT #1759 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I should have copied mine. I may have done, but if so it's gotten lost. I know! It's probably in the big envelope with the extra copies. Now where the hell is that envelope?
Beverly - Aug 12, 2003 7:38:53 pm PDT #1760 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Deb, glad to. Still up, DH not home yet.
Susan, many congratulations!
deborah grabien - Aug 16, 2003 8:30:22 am PDT #1761 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
OK, my brain is draining. Bev, did I or did I not send you the corrections to the church registers bit? Willow got sick and all my attention got siphoned off to that.
Beverly - Aug 16, 2003 8:47:06 am PDT #1762 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
No, dear. Let me check your last to me, and I'll email you.
deborah grabien - Aug 16, 2003 9:30:13 am PDT #1763 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Just sent you stuff. Check your email. Bits and pieces, corrections to Chapt 7 and the beginning of Chap 8.
Susan W. - Aug 19, 2003 8:20:11 pm PDT #1764 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Woohoo!
t does end zone dance
For the first time in over two weeks, I actually made my writing quota for the day! I've still got it! I may be delayed a few weeks, but I'm really truly going to finish this novel in spite of it all!
Brynn - Aug 25, 2003 7:27:32 pm PDT #1765 of 10001
"I'd rather discuss the permutations of swordplay, with an undertone of definite allusion to sex." Beverly, offering an example of when your characters give you 'tude.
- catching-up about 300 odd posts*
whew. It sure has been a long summer. Anyway, I wanted to thank you again Deb G for editing those haikus for me. You're such a wonderful editor. It turned out the magazine that enlisted me to do them ousted them in favour of a vegan cake recipe instead, which kind of hurt, but I wrote them more to engage my bad poetic self than anything.
Actually, I am posting for some advice as well. From whoever cares to give it, really. I bumped into a friend from university (we took a creative writing class together) and it turns out he's the new news editor for the university's student paper. Anyway, he's getting married and begged me to take a few article assignments since he looks like a anal control freak because he has been writing all the articles(summer contributer slump) for the news section for the past few weeks. He's nice and I really respect him but article writing makes me crazy. After my first attempt he sent me this ten page article writing guide to presumably teach ignorant me about inverted pyramid style, so I fixed the article the way he wanted it, but it's making me feel embarassed to have my name attached to it. It's such a different mode of writing than I am used to. I sort of feel like I am "square peg round holing" my way through and I am a little worried I'll lose credibility in the university writing community (I have published in the U of W creative writing journal) if people come to associate me with these horrid articles. Fromt the friend perspective.. I don't want to bail and let him down in his time of need because he was always very helpful to me with editing and so on. Thoughts?