I'm just giggling with a little bit of glee that as someone who gets the magazine to her house, I'll get to read it in its final version.
Angel: Is that what you think you are--a hero? Spike: Saved the world didn't I? Angel: Once. Talk to me after you've done it a couple more times.
'Destiny'
The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Rebecca Lizard - Jan 26, 2003 8:25:24 pm PST #565 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
Susan W. - Jan 26, 2003 8:43:04 pm PST #566 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Assuming they accept it--this is one of those things where it seems more appropriate to submit the whole thing than to do a query.
Liese S. - Jan 26, 2003 8:43:46 pm PST #567 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Was a lot of that in second person? Doing that smoothly is a real feat.
I was GMing, and my particular RPG focused on not 'directing' the player, so no. That is to say, I could never have my background say 'You do this or see a grue'...I couldn't force their roleplay. I could just put in the details (and the grue, as applicable), and the player could choose whether the character noticed or not, and roleplay (and possibly get eaten) accordingly. Or hack, hack, slash, hack, whatever.
Connie Neil - Jan 26, 2003 10:46:25 pm PST #568 of 10001
brillig
Perhaps it's best if I never go back to role-playing. I saw the phrase "Hack and Slash", and my Bitchy brain immediately said, "Hm, first the swordfight, then the sex, could be fun."
erikaj - Feb 04, 2003 11:31:50 am PST #569 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Hi, everyone. I've got a character who has to decide not to kill herself(cause if she goes through with it, the story will be too short and it will undermine my message, anyway.)I know, sort of from experience, that wanting to live can be sort of a gradual realization, but what would that first moment look like. She's young and single, no kids.
Betsy HP - Feb 04, 2003 11:33:13 am PST #570 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
It can be something really, really stupid. Like "If I survive till my next birthday, I'll buy myself that trip to Spain."
DavidS - Feb 04, 2003 11:34:37 am PST #571 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It can be something really, really stupid. Like "If I survive till my next birthday, I'll buy myself that trip to Spain."
Something direct and mundane and concrete is good. Like, Anya's fruit punch scene in "The Body." "Shit, I'll never have peanut M&Ms again! Forget it!"
Connie Neil - Feb 04, 2003 11:37:43 am PST #572 of 10001
brillig
A fresh batch of chocolate chip cookies could make the difference for me.
erikaj - Feb 04, 2003 11:43:54 am PST #573 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah, that was where I was going, but you guys are better at focusing it than I had been. Thanks.
Ms. Havisham - Feb 05, 2003 5:36:11 am PST #574 of 10001
And we will call it... "This Land."
It can be something really, really stupid. Like "If I survive till my next birthday, I'll buy myself that trip to Spain."
Just to add... it can also be something like "But if I screw up and survive, how'm I going to explain it?"