Bad fic writers, messing with my metaphors!

I deny everything! I did nothing naughty! In fact, I am the very model of a modern - oh, wait, that's Gilbert & Sullivan.....

Someone so needs to filk that thing, and make it about fic.

Two questions about my fic:

(1) As a title -- what about "Redux"?

(2) It's been a while since I've committed fic -- where should I send it? I can think of the BFA and G_O, but that's all that's coming to mind.

Oh, I like "Redux."

I like it muchly.

Thankee. I was tossing around "This Year's Girl" in my mind, wanting to convey that sense of "this year's girl returns, with a few new improvements." And my brain finally remembered that it knows words and coughed up "Redux."

Man, finding a title was harder than writing the story!

As for where to send them - I'm completely clueless. I wave my feeble technochallenged little stumps in the air and nice people offer to help me.

Steph - I like Redux too...it fits nicely.

OK - time for you write more fic...pretty please???

Theo, that's lovely. I mean, I don't know anything about the X-Men. I really don't. But that's a gorgeous piece of prose.

But that's a gorgeous piece of prose.

Aint it though? A definite honey.

Um? "She lies in his bed." Please. One of my twitch-points.

Lovely, Connie. I know nothing of the XMen pantheon, except from the first movie. But I could certainly get into the characters with your writing. Very smooth and insinuating writing--I was hooked before I knew it.

Deb, I've been offline all day. I'll get back to you by tomorrow on Needfire, okay? And am I on the bad crack or did you say you were thinking of bracketing The Pensioner with stories? So that now that we have the history, we still have an after-story to look forward to? You'd have something you might could market as a novel, if you're not careful.

She lies in his bed.

See, I've been known to use that particular little foof myself, mostly because, where I come from, "laying" is something mature chickens do, and eggs in bed, not so much. Also, in a lot of UK folk music (including Matty Groves, the basis for the newest novel), you have the word verbally pronounced "lies" - "Oh, how do you like my feather bed and how do you like my sheets? How do you like my lady, who lies in your arms asleep?"

Hey, if she's telling how good he is, and moaning oooh baby, and admiring his manhood, she could very well be lying in his bed.

(definite mileage variance on that one)

edit: never mind - it was laying and you wanted it lying. We are as one....

but I've seen it used both ways, truly.

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And am I on the bad crack or did you say you were thinking of bracketing The Pensioner with stories? So that now that we have the history, we still have an after-story to look forward to? You'd have something you might could market as a novel, if you're not careful.

Yes, I was planning to wait until after the season is over and write and end-times story as a coda to Needfire and Pensioner. But I'm damned if I know what to do with them; the Tales of the Slayer collections want no mention of Buffy and anyway they're set for the next four years. And since, strictly speaking, Amanda Lisle is a breach of strict canon (original character not created by the Jossian Powers that Be? Uh-oh), I expect they'll just stay posted as a trilogy, for fanfic enjoyment.

Unless I get some impetus, some connections and some cojones, and send them to Joss. "Here ya go, Big Guy. Got a Slayer-Witch for ya, hot off the presses."