A first-pagraph drabble? On a book genre theme?
TEPPPPPYYYYYYYY!
You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with until you understand who's in ruttin' command here.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
deborah grabien - Jun 10, 2004 5:54:59 am PDT #5160 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Steph L. - Jun 10, 2004 6:03:12 am PDT #5161 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
You rang?
deborah grabien - Jun 10, 2004 6:09:08 am PDT #5162 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
(bounce bounce bounce)
Can we have that idea soon? Can we? Pleeeeeease?
As in, picking a genre - mystery, romance, scifi, whatever rings the writers' bellses - and having the drabble be the exact 100-word opening paragraph?
I think it would be a humongous help to folks having trouble focussing.
Steph L. - Jun 10, 2004 6:09:55 am PDT #5163 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Can we have that idea soon? Can we? Pleeeeeease?
Absolutely!
Connie Neil - Jun 10, 2004 6:21:29 am PDT #5164 of 10001
brillig
I think it would be a humongous help to folks having trouble focussing
Heck, and I just wanted to write overwrought pot boilers. Now Deb has to go and make it all useful.
deborah grabien - Jun 10, 2004 6:24:30 am PDT #5165 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
(bounce bounce bounce)
Here's another fruit drabble.
Witchcraft
The recipe is simple: a pound of strawberries, washed, dried and hulled. You slice them, and set them aside.
Two pounds of peaches - yellow, please, for while Babcocks are sweeter off the tree, they lose their celestial savour when baked. Pit them, peel them and slice them into wedges. Macerate in half a cup sugar until a syrup forms.
Spread them in a baking pan
Make a lemon-infused shortcrust, sweet-tart and doughy. Drop it over the fruit in spoonfuls; it will spread as it bakes.
Your kitchen becomes an orchard, a temple of the best smell on earth.
Connie Neil - Jun 10, 2004 6:27:20 am PDT #5166 of 10001
brillig
That noise you hear is my stomach growling. Damn, Deb.
I have no problem with beginnings, I can generally come up with a good, hooky opening. My problem is endings. I know where the story ends, but my characters always seem to just be standing around staring at each other, waiting for someone else to be the first to walk off stage.
Polter-Cow - Jun 10, 2004 6:29:42 am PDT #5167 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I can do beginnings and endings. It's those damn middles I have trouble with.
deborah grabien - Jun 10, 2004 6:30:50 am PDT #5168 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
So maybe a theme of "defining paragraph in a genre story"?
I really need to make what is officially known - courtesy of my daughter and her Raider - as Hot Fruit, and I need to make it soon. Both peaches and strawberries are nicely in season in California right now, and cheap (a pound of organic peaches locally is about 59 cents), and the peaches don't have to be soft and fully ripe for cooking.
And the lemon-infused crust is glorious stuff. I could eat it out of the bowl.
But really, nothing competes with the smell. It's purely divine.
Did I mention it's served hot, right out of the oven? With ice cream?
Katie M - Jun 10, 2004 6:32:35 am PDT #5169 of 10001
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
(a pound of organic peaches locally is about 59 cents)
Okay, now I'm whimpering. Peaches! We won't have peaches for... oh, a month at the earliest, I think.
I'm just going to firmly remind myself that I am enjoying strawberry season right now, and peaches will be here in their time. Yes. (Whimper.)