Inara: Mal, this isn't the ancient sea. You don't have to go down with your ship. Mal: She ain't going down. She ain't going anywhere.

'Out Of Gas'


The Great Write Way  

A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.


JohnSweden - Oct 07, 2004 10:47:22 am PDT #7039 of 10001
I can't even.

"Rowling" and "Tolkein"

Who?

Nice, the way the pace of the piece has the words and the emotions just spilling out, tumbling over one another. The sense of urgency and panic and resignation all wrapping in one.

Wow, this was hard to type (accurately). I'm fried by the stress everyone else here at work is infecting me with. I need alcohol and probably pizza.


deborah grabien - Oct 07, 2004 10:53:06 am PDT #7040 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Jeepers, lisah. That's intense.

I just did a nice 40-minute over the phone talk with the Shrewsbury Library. I think she said there were about ten people there, and they asked good intelligent questions, and we had a ball. It's possible (ya think?) that I talked too much, but luckily, I'm a very entertaining talker.


Allyson - Oct 07, 2004 11:37:10 am PDT #7041 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

It seems someone else is publishing a book on our fandom and stuff.

I'm crushed.


deborah grabien - Oct 07, 2004 11:38:00 am PDT #7042 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Who's Kiss Me Jane?


Allyson - Oct 07, 2004 11:39:05 am PDT #7043 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

No idea. Never heard of her til I saw the link at Whedonesque.


lisah - Oct 07, 2004 11:40:25 am PDT #7044 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

Allyson, at a quick glance that book seems very different from the one you're trying to write. It calls itself a "resource" guide. Besides, there's room on the shelf!


Beverly - Oct 07, 2004 11:43:03 am PDT #7045 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Allyson, don't be crushed. This may be an okay book, but it definitely won't be the same thing as yours, and yours is funny, and intimate, and touching, and very well-written. And as lisah says, room on the shelf.


JohnSweden - Oct 07, 2004 11:43:09 am PDT #7046 of 10001
I can't even.

Never heard of her

Ditto.

I'm crushed.

Well, since the world will receive her book with a hearty "whatever, I'm dying to read Allyson's book", I'm hoping you can still type in your crushed state. Or, y'know, bounce back.


Jesse - Oct 07, 2004 11:44:51 am PDT #7047 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

As the book is meant to be a resource guide, it includes many how-to's on some of these subjects as well as website links.

Not at all similar, Allyson.

And I just have to say that all of those "lie" drabbles are killer. Gutwrenching.


Ginger - Oct 07, 2004 11:47:16 am PDT #7048 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

The difference between the two books is that I can't wait to read yours, Allyson, and I could not possibly care less about hers.