I'm sure the same words passed Mrs. Tolkien's lips many a night. Fat lot of good it did her...
If there's any justice, she saw a lot of productions of Wagner.
Maybe Der Meistersinger.
But that's just my point! You she obeys! She obeys you! There's obeying going on right under my nose!
Wash ,'War Stories'
The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
deborah grabien - Oct 28, 2003 8:49:42 pm PST #2495 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Susan W. - Oct 28, 2003 9:04:03 pm PST #2496 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Just finished my editing pass. Tomorrow I'll make a Target run for a fresh toner cartridge and a ream of paper, and print the monster out and have the complete in the mail to Marlene and the partials out to the conference contacts by the end of the week.
It's not everything I want it to be yet. In a month or so, I might make another pass just in case the Harper editor wants to see the complete. But meanwhile I'm going to set it aside and start my homework for the next one, and get down the scenes that are already teasing my brain.
Betsy HP - Oct 29, 2003 6:54:39 am PST #2497 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Suela, SUBMIT the sucker before you give up. Send it to Dandelion. All it costs you is a stamp.
Signed, Miss Do-What-I-Say-Not-What-I-Do
In unrelated news, a friend of mine got a scathing Kirkus review of her first novel, a YA fantasy. I am consoling her by saying that Kirkus doesn't matter nearly as much as Library Journal for kids' books -- am I right? Good Kirkus reviews are lovely, bad ones don't matter?
deborah grabien - Oct 29, 2003 6:57:40 am PST #2498 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Kirkus is notoriously edgy, Betsy - the word I want is "capricious". And yes, LJ and Booklist are the ones she wants.
Also PW. I hope they do Weaver; they did Eyes and Plainsong.
(fretting)
erikaj - Oct 29, 2003 7:03:05 am PST #2499 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Well, I'm getting the KFKD Morning show this morning, telling me I can't write my name...it had to happen, but I've forgotten how much it sucks.
deborah grabien - Oct 29, 2003 7:06:54 am PST #2500 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
KFKD?
Betsy HP - Oct 29, 2003 7:07:34 am PST #2501 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
K-Fucked. Courtesy of Saint Anne Lamott.
deborah grabien - Oct 29, 2003 7:09:52 am PST #2502 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Ah.
(mentally filing that one; I like it.)
edit: is that in one of her books about writing?
erikaj - Oct 29, 2003 7:13:18 am PST #2503 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah...Bird by Bird. KFKD tells you all the bad stuff. Like in my case, I had to steal characters to write about, and now I can't finish and who cares, anyway. And I should have studied something that wasn't writing. And, you, write a novel? Right.
Consuela - Oct 29, 2003 7:16:57 am PST #2504 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix