KFKD?
Inara: Mal, this isn't the ancient sea. You don't have to go down with your ship. Mal: She ain't going down. She ain't going anywhere.
'Out Of Gas'
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A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
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.
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
deborah grabien - Oct 29, 2003 7:21:16 am PST #2505 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
See, I've got no chair at the books-about-writing table; I've never read any of them.
erika, since the fiction I've read of yours wants only a resolution, I'd say you didn't have to steal characters. Of course, the one's you do play with are pretty damned funny.
'suela, let's see what happens. I'm with Betsy on the submission being good.
amych - Oct 29, 2003 7:22:19 am PST #2506 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Go, Suela!
Consuela - Oct 29, 2003 7:27:15 am PST #2507 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I shouldn't be so stressed about this. Except:
1. It's very close to home: real me-experiences. This is how I feel when I'm climbing, this is what it's like. While it's not intimate, it's very personal.
2. It's not genre, or a character study, or even really a story. I'm all about plot and this isn't really. It's just a weird sort of thing that I don't understand why anyone would want to read, but I want them to read. Because see (1) above.
3. It's fiction, basically, and the last time I published fiction that wasn't fanfic was in 1979, I believe.
So, yeah. Weirdly stressed out about the entire thing.
I may send a copy to my dad. I showed it to my brotherthedoctor, who got me started climbing back in 1987, and whom I rather worship (even when he pisses me off), and he didn't say anything. Which, errg. You know?
erikaj - Oct 29, 2003 7:29:07 am PST #2508 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I know it's just KFKD. But, like Munch at the Justice of the Peace, I thought it would be different this time. I think my feeling good about myself two months in a row messed with the natural order or something.
deborah grabien - Oct 29, 2003 7:36:24 am PST #2509 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
'suela, magazine submissions are incredibly stressy. I'm fleshing out one I did as flashfiction, by another few hundred words, crime as told by the weapon, and I'm hating the idea of all the idiot guidelines.
Feh. Hang in.