But erika, you write beautifully about sense memory, damnit. Hell, I haven't beta'd a single piece of yours that didn't.
Dawn: I feel safe with you. Spike: Take that back!
'First Date'
The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
deborah grabien - Apr 27, 2004 6:55:19 am PDT #4230 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Polter-Cow - Apr 27, 2004 6:56:34 am PDT #4231 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Deborah, I bought Robertson Davies' Murther and Walking Spirits yesterday. Have you read it?
erikaj - Apr 27, 2004 7:01:00 am PDT #4232 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Thank you! But now I have to write one.(I hate when the wife puts me on the spot in front of people. :))
deborah grabien - Apr 27, 2004 7:02:11 am PDT #4233 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
PC, yup, and it's bloody brilliant (Davies may be the only writer out there who could pull it off properly), but we're in the wrong thread for that discussion: Great Write is strictly for original fiction. We need to take it over to Literary.
deborah grabien - Apr 27, 2004 7:03:03 am PDT #4234 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
(I hate when the wife puts me on the spot in front of people. :))
Snerk. "But honey, you make the best meat loaf..."
erikaj - Apr 27, 2004 7:07:19 am PDT #4235 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Sigh. But this is the Last. Time. And you clean up.
deborah grabien - Apr 27, 2004 7:17:08 am PDT #4236 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Now, honey, you know I always do the dishes....
Astarte - Apr 27, 2004 7:47:06 am PDT #4237 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
These are fantastic. Really ripping.
Noodling around with my own ideas. Sense memory isn't one of my strong points in writing. It needs the exercise.
deborah grabien - Apr 27, 2004 2:03:34 pm PDT #4238 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Doods, we killed the thread.
OK. Another one:
Hair
It's only a lotion: Curel? Keri? The scent of my sister's flesh
Alice, nine years my senior, curled up on the bed behind me, wielding a hairbrush. She hated her tight ginger curls, never reaching her shoulders; like her hands, so dry that they would crack and bleed if allowed, her hair was brittle, and broke easily. She coveted my waist-length flyaway mess, red until illness stripped its pigment and gave me temporary ebony.
She would brush, stroking, her touch light. Sometimes, a long stray strand would escape, and she would gently bring it back.
Keri, Curel, my sister's hands.
§ ita § - Apr 27, 2004 2:08:15 pm PDT #4239 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Two for the week ...
*****
She squinted in the too bright room and found herself pressing back, sullen. It was every touch that wasn't that one which made her remember. If the hand rested diffidently on the small of her back, or when she was being steered, like now, instead of reveled in. If her nerves didn't ripple with anticipation, she could think of nothing other than when they had. Of someone else, somewhere other than here, dark and loud with noise swirling tight around them.
She snapped back to the moment.
"Kiss! Kiss!" they chanted at her over the din of silver on crystal.