Anyone up for a chapter section beta?
This is so nice. Having everyone together for my birthday. Of course, you could smash in all my toes with a hammer and it will still be the bestest Buffy Birthday Bash in a big long while.
Buffy ,'Potential'
The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
deborah grabien - Dec 30, 2004 7:32:32 am PST #8929 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
deborah grabien - Dec 30, 2004 7:39:51 am PST #8930 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
(serial)
Separate
Atop a high hill, I look down at grief and carnage.
Above me, Mt. Tam's treeline arcs in dark spruce edges across the sky. Around me are stopped vehicles, bumper to bumper on this holiday weekend, hushed people, some with hands at their mouths, intent on swallowing their fear of mortality.
Below me, the shattered Cadillac, broken glass, smoking metal, eucalyptus buttons, a girl with shattered bones, holding a dead child.
I come down from the high hill, knowing this one precious moment of separation is done, and fall back into my skin. Eve, eyes open, cools in my arms.
deborah grabien - Dec 30, 2004 3:52:20 pm PST #8931 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Boy, am I hogging this thread. Where is everyone?
Another drabble:
Safe
Twice. I fell twice.
The sensation is an elevator, out of control, or so I remember: something in me snapped and the cage plummeting, out of control, faster than light and I thought, oh no oh shit oh man I am so very doomed, and then? There were his brown eyes, there to catch me, hold me.
Years later, that fall, but a different feeling - home again, home again, one foot on a banana peel and the other in freefall, into blue eyes and strong arms.
They shared a name, and my love, and the job of catching me.
Pix - Dec 30, 2004 3:56:06 pm PST #8932 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Oh, Deb, I love that one.
deborah grabien - Dec 30, 2004 3:57:09 pm PST #8933 of 10001
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(waving at Kristin)
Pix - Dec 30, 2004 4:00:12 pm PST #8934 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Hi Deb! I'm glad you're back online. I'm verra excited, btw--I will have a shiny new writing web site in the next month or so!
deborah grabien - Dec 30, 2004 4:03:36 pm PST #8935 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
A private site, a beta site, a publishing site?
Pix - Dec 30, 2004 4:06:33 pm PST #8936 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Ummm...yes?
I bought my own domain, so a private site, I guess, but I'm going to use it as part of my marketing ploy this year to (eventually) attract an agent.
My hope is to make it interesting enough to get a little following...people who will maybe check in every week or so (I'm going to be self-publishing an essay a week--some humorous, some more serious). We'll see. I'm excited by the prospect, in any case. Finally I'm doing something tangible.
Also, Deena and Dave are collaborating to design and code it, so it looks to be very (extremely, amazingly) pretty, if nothing else.
deborah grabien - Dec 30, 2004 4:10:07 pm PST #8937 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Hee! Excellence.
I know from excited-over-new-website mode. My treehouse is moving into its very own hosted domain, I've bought us the first year, and Jess is doing all the technical stuff, because she is wondrous.
Happy.
Ginger - Dec 30, 2004 4:29:08 pm PST #8938 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I've been working on something similar for a year or so, Kristin, although I'm thinking of mine as being sort of a magazine with contributors. (The domain name is straightgin.com.) Stoopid working for a living thing, not to mention the whole cancer thing, has kept me from finishing it, but I plan to tackle it again as soon as I finish redesigning my business website. May 2005 be the year that we all make great strides towards our writing ambitions.