River: They weren't cows inside. They were waiting to be, but they forgot. Now they see the sky and they remember what they are. Mal: Is it bad that what she said made perfect sense to me?

'Safe'


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, 2003 2:12:04 pm PDT #2350 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Got it Deb, and backflung.


victor infante - Oct 20, 2003 2:34:21 pm PDT #2351 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.

Posted this over on LJ, but waited until the board was better to post here.

I'm back to writing my ongoing column on writing, "Writing from the Real World," for Writemovies.com.

I'm trying a different tact with it this time around, less about screenwriting (which was the space my head was in for the first go round) and this time more general--more about poetry and fiction, et al. It's cynical and bitter and just a wee bit curmudgeonly, and I hope you enjoy it!

This week? The Validation Tango.

Also, if you have any great ideas for areas in the writer's life to explore, please let me know!


Betsy HP - Oct 20, 2003 3:02:14 pm PDT #2352 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

Since you've finished a Regency in a year, Susan, I'm not sure you need external motivation. NaNoWriMo is more of a "get up off your ass and WRITE, dammit!" challenge.

Which would actually be tricky unless you had the right desk. Must. rethink. metaphor.


Susan W. - Oct 20, 2003 3:04:42 pm PDT #2353 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Two years, actually. I started it back in 2001. I need to pick up the pace in the future if I'm going to make a career of this.


erikaj - Oct 20, 2003 3:05:31 pm PDT #2354 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

Victor, your column rules.(But I think kicking the little punk's ass would make me feel better, at least for the moment,)


Liese S. - Oct 20, 2003 6:02:17 pm PDT #2355 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

All right. I'm in.

Dammit.


victor infante - Oct 20, 2003 6:04:49 pm PDT #2356 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.

Victor, your column rules.

Thank ya!

(But I think kicking the little punk's ass would make me feel better, at least for the moment,)

Well, probably. But it would be an empty, fleeting pleasure...


erikaj - Oct 20, 2003 7:04:21 pm PDT #2357 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

Eh, you take what you can get, you know.


Deena - Oct 20, 2003 9:10:18 pm PDT #2358 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

Yay, Liese!

Am, of course I want to be added to the filter.

I, unfortunately, haven't been able to get back into active LJing since the move, but I'd like to. I can't seem to get up the whatever it is I need to do it. Maybe this will be the incentive I need.


askye - Oct 21, 2003 4:33:47 am PDT #2359 of 10001
Thrive to spite them

I signed up for NaNoWriMo as well. I've never attempted anything like this so I've already accepted I'm going to write crap. Now my goal is to write 50,000 words of it.