I shall now go out in the garden and eat worms.
then I'm going out and getting in the car and having Mexican food
Worms con Queso?
We use the latest in scientific technology and state-of-the-art weaponry and you, if I understand correctly, poke them with a sharp stick.
Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'
Buffista Fic: It Could Be Plot Bunnies
Where the Buffistas let their fanfic creative juices flow. May contain erotica.
Steph L. - Mar 06, 2003 8:57:26 pm PST #2161 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Beverly - Mar 06, 2003 8:57:42 pm PST #2162 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Lovely, Deb, particularly the tongue-palate bit. Yummy tingles. But I want to quarrel with her use of "phenomenal" to describe her own sight. It is, simply, how she sees. Someone else might call it phenomenal, but would she?
Your call, obviously. Just twinged me a bit. Otherwise, more, please.
Elena, do we get to read the men-dig-graves piece?
Teppy, I'm glad the darvocet's talking, since presumably that means it's also painkilling. Or at least pain-hamstringing.
Elena - Mar 06, 2003 8:57:57 pm PST #2163 of 10001
Thanks for all the fish.
Darvocet from 1998? OKay to take?
Absolutely no way of knowing if it's expired. Probably. Are the tablets flakey, soft, mottled, smelly, or discoloured?
Please say yes, as I took one half an hour ago and don't wish to induce emesis.
Why people don't ask before they ingest shit I'll never know. It won't hurt you. Might not work, but it won't hurt you.
Steph L. - Mar 06, 2003 9:00:37 pm PST #2164 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Are the tablets flakey, soft, mottled, smelly, or discoloured?
No, no, no, no, and no.
Please say yes, as I took one half an hour ago and don't wish to induce emesis.
Why people don't ask before they ingest shit I'll never know.
Because I was OUT OF MY MIND with pain today.
It won't hurt you. Might not work, but it won't hurt you.
Then at best the pain gets dulled, and at worst I'm exactly where I am now. My kind of odds.
deborah grabien - Mar 06, 2003 9:00:38 pm PST #2165 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Bev, you're quite right. Off to fix. Which is why I am BEGGING for a beta reader or two, once it's done? From top to tail? I know it's long (it'already at 9000 words and it isn't done), but please? Someone?
mmmmmmm.....wooooooorms.....
Elena - Mar 06, 2003 9:02:51 pm PST #2166 of 10001
Thanks for all the fish.
Bev, it starts here Elena "Bitchy Fic: It Could Be Plot Bunnies" Feb 26, 2003 12:25:16 am EST
By the way, does anyone have any title suggestions? I was thinking 'Unceremonious' or 'Unceremoniously' because it's remixed from a story called 'Ceremony'.
Beverly - Mar 06, 2003 9:06:13 pm PST #2167 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Thanks, Elena. Bookmarked.
Now. I have a question. This is me in the front row with my hand waving wildly to be Deb's beta...but.
Exactly what does a beta reader do? I'm a kickass editor, and a good line-editor. But I've never really grokked "beta reading." Someone please 'splain.
deborah grabien - Mar 06, 2003 9:08:38 pm PST #2168 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Elena, maybe "lack of Ceremony"?
Bev, basically what you did for me on Famous Flower and are now doing for Matty Groves, but with a bit more indepth immediacy. basically, it's the pre-release readover.
Elena - Mar 06, 2003 9:10:06 pm PST #2169 of 10001
Thanks for all the fish.
Some betas are good with the grammar and the spotting of tense switches and typos and awkward sentences and stuff. And some concentrate on characters, the right voice, the right action, consistency and stuff. And some just like to see the good fic before anyone else...
And, sometimes, it's all of the above and more.
deborah grabien - Mar 06, 2003 9:13:33 pm PST #2170 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
What Elena said.
Bev's been a beta-editor for the integrity of the humanity and scare factors for the last two books. juliana has been beta reading both novels. Betsy did costume advice and other beta stuff on "Weaver". All are thanked on the acknowlegements page of the books.