Do we talk essays, here, too?
I'm supposed to deliver you to the Master now. There's this whole deal where I get to be immortal. Are you cool with that?
Xander ,'Lessons'
The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Allyson - Apr 27, 2004 7:15:08 pm PDT #4242 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
P.M. Marc - Apr 27, 2004 7:16:16 pm PDT #4243 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
We talk essays here, too.
Anything that's not fanfic, basically.
Allyson - Apr 27, 2004 7:17:16 pm PDT #4244 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
So where to start?
Astarte - Apr 27, 2004 7:18:40 pm PDT #4245 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
Whereever you are, bebe.
P.M. Marc - Apr 27, 2004 7:18:55 pm PDT #4246 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Where to start on an essay, or where to start talking about one?
(I'm slow today. Ice cream brain.)
Allyson - Apr 27, 2004 7:27:18 pm PDT #4247 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
So I can post opening paragraphs for the chapters of the book I'll never get around to writing, and you can tell me whether they suck, and i can do the same for you, peppered with what will probably be destructive criticism?
P.M. Marc - Apr 27, 2004 7:31:34 pm PDT #4248 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
So I can post opening paragraphs for the chapters of the book I'll never get around to writing, and you can tell me whether they suck, and i can do the same for you, peppered with what will probably be destructive criticism?
Yup.
erikaj - Apr 27, 2004 7:31:50 pm PDT #4249 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Essentially, yes. I think somebody was concerned about making the header too long. But I guess that tattoo thing is an essay.
Hil R. - Apr 27, 2004 8:49:01 pm PDT #4250 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Memory drabble:
The baby’s crying, and I grab some crayons and start drawing. Her eyes get wide and she forgets the tears as the image takes shape.
Opa used to draw for me. In his hands, card stock and paper fasteners could become a puppet. Old calendars might make a collage.
If he pushed his sleeves up, I could see the scar where the number had been removed. He’d studied to be a lawyer in Vienna. The letterhead from his many failed attempts at entrepreneurship is a ready supply of drawing paper. I drew him a pigeon, and he colored it pink.
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This is an interesting format to work in. With the word limit, I have to really think about which details are neccesary. There was another one I started, but I realized I just had too much to say, and it couldn't fit into 100 words, ever. It might become something longer, though, if I have time to write it.
Liese S. - Apr 27, 2004 9:09:02 pm PDT #4251 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I find it so interesting that so many of the memory triggers are smell. Is it because we're less aware of our use of that sense, that lets us be blindsided by memory? Is it because it is so strong subconsciously?
I chose deliberately not to use a smell trigger, but on reflection, I feel like I could have fleshed it out better. Like how I put my hand on the dog's ribcage to feel his heat and fur and life in his breathing. Or how I listen, back turned, to the pace of my husband's breath.
But yeah, 100 words not a lot.
I'm also trying to do another sense one, less of a downer. But I'm kinda in downer mode at the moment.