I'm not sure about the gritty carrots...I just have a Bob likes Carrots compulsion in re the Simonverse. I can't even write "falling" cause I'm all "Ooh, David Simon wrote that you don't physically hit the ground after being shot. Your brain just thinks you should. Unless you're loaded, and don't know you've been hit." Literally. My first thought. Crime writers don't have fangirls! I need to stop it.
Dawn: Are you kidding? Dr. Keiser: I never kid about my amazing surgical skills.
'Bring On The Night'
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erikaj - Dec 31, 2004 11:43:22 am PST #8978 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
WildDemon Cornelius - Dec 31, 2004 12:08:08 pm PST #8979 of 10001
Take your fingers off it, don't you dare touch it, you know it don't belong to you, to you...
Okay, sorry, no more crit here. I have this big love/hate thing going on with it.
Amy - Dec 31, 2004 12:16:47 pm PST #8980 of 10001
Because books.
Susan, sounds she like definitely went overboard. Sorry about the not-winning. But you can be glad she's not one of the editors/agents you're targeting, right?
erikaj - Dec 31, 2004 12:22:01 pm PST #8981 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
WDC, wrod. Part of me wishes I were better at it, and part of me thinks getting jazzed about what I read is one of my great strengths, and that some of the critics are kind of dispassionate.
Susan W. - Dec 31, 2004 12:45:15 pm PST #8982 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Susan, sounds she like definitely went overboard. Sorry about the not-winning. But you can be glad she's not one of the editors/agents you're targeting, right?
Totally. And I think what I'll do is wait till Monday, and then send a politely worded note to the contest coordinator praising her hard work, talking about the great and helpful feedback I got from most of the judges, and then saying that while I don't want to raise a fuss or change the results or anything, I think she should know for next year's contest that Judge So-and-So is deducting inappropriately, IMO, and explain why.
Pix - Dec 31, 2004 1:24:43 pm PST #8983 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Erika! Just popping in to add my congratulations! I haven't had a chance to read the article yet but plan to later tonight.
Ginger - Dec 31, 2004 1:32:40 pm PST #8984 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It's a great piece, Erika. Everything I read of yours makes me more impatient for that book.
Amy - Dec 31, 2004 1:34:39 pm PST #8985 of 10001
Because books.
Challenge #37: Falling
I’ve never been to Times Square on New Year’s Eve. I love New York otherwise—the energy, neon lights and voices and the rush of tires combining into a living pulse. But that many drunken people looking for excitement in one place frightens me.
On year, just uptown, I opened the windows to listen to the crowd cheering as the ball began to drop. I was watching it on TV, and counted down with them as the outrageous ball descended, brash and bright and too big, marking another year falling away with a rude good-bye. Quiet reflection comes with the hangover.
Pix - Dec 31, 2004 1:38:56 pm PST #8986 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Oh, I love that AmyLiz. You captured it so beautifully.
Brynn - Dec 31, 2004 1:43:47 pm PST #8987 of 10001
"I'd rather discuss the permutations of swordplay, with an undertone of definite allusion to sex." Beverly, offering an example of when your characters give you 'tude.
Anyway, best wishes to everyone for their writing in 2005!
edit: Deb, I meant to ask how your final edits on the my turn piece went? I can't imagine much changed...
edit 2: Susan... Not that I know much about the historical market, but I don't get the first person hang-up? The voice should be more removed because the time period is??? feh, I say. As long as it's well written. The only real first person issues I've encounted is with poetry and even those seemed kind of ridiculous... I had a prof who cautioned that poetry (especially in first person) doesn't get treated as fiction and should you decide to write a first person ode to a (fictional) dead relative, you can expect condolence mail. Haven't tested that theory yet.