I've got a story with an ending I now hate. I'd like the Buffistas to help me rehab it, but the piece is kinda long to post here,imo. But if I do, any formatting tips? I think I panic when stories get to a certain length and just sort of wrap them up "by any means neccessary"=cheesy endings
Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.
Lilah ,'Destiny'
The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
erikaj - Oct 01, 2002 2:00:25 pm PDT #46 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Holli - Oct 01, 2002 2:06:07 pm PDT #47 of 10001
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
Are there any Buffistas who'd be intereseted in reading my college essays, or mind if I posted them here in the future? I mention y'all in one of them.
erikaj - Oct 01, 2002 2:08:43 pm PDT #48 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I would like to, esp. the one with Buffistaness.
Rebecca Lizard - Oct 01, 2002 6:27:40 pm PDT #49 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
I'd love to read your essays, Hil.
Hil R. - Oct 01, 2002 8:40:58 pm PDT #50 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'd love to read your essays, Hil.
That was Holli, not me.
Rebecca Lizard - Oct 01, 2002 9:29:00 pm PDT #51 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Ah. Yes. Duh. I *do* know you apart. And that college-application essays aren't quite what's currently on your mind.
jengod - Oct 06, 2002 11:08:51 am PDT #52 of 10001
Hey, folks in the know...When one is submitting a non-fiction essay to online magazines, is it bad form to approach more than one at a time? Do I have to wait to get rejected by one to move onto the other?
Rebecca Lizard - Oct 06, 2002 1:49:19 pm PDT #53 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
I wouldn't make any distinction between online and print magazines in this case. If they specifiy anything about simultaneous submissions, that's important-- occasionally they'll say "ss are fine"; but, if they say "we really don't like ss" and you think you've got more than little chance of being accepted by two different magazines at once, don't do it. Especially if it's a small/indie magazine: it's not cool if you have to not use a piece you were planning on running. I actually had to write that letter a month ago. I'm not sure the editor will ever look at my work again.
Steph L. - Oct 09, 2002 7:07:10 pm PDT #54 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I don't write poetry, ever, but lately everything has been coming to me in poem form. So...I wrote this for class. Be nice to the non-poet, please...
Autumn Morning
Rebirth comes
not in
budding branches and
fresh new green
but in a
bold sudden
tympani of color,
russet and gold and flame.
Not in the
gentle warmth,
spreading slowly outward
after the thaw
but in the
crisp snap
of air made new,
respite from the heat.
Connie Neil - Oct 09, 2002 7:08:30 pm PDT #55 of 10001
brillig
That's rather haiku-ish.