Buffy ,'Potential'
Where the Buffistas let their fanfic creative juices flow. May contain erotica.
Lay/lie, UK/US. I was giving it the US take, for the majority - I'm always getting yelled it for using the Brit "lie", even though, well, it isn't "Love LAYS Bleeding". I've just modified it a bit, though, and I think it reads better this way.
The girl was a nod/wink, Steph, definitely.
Typos, about to be fixed.
I just felt like a nice bit of Darla erotica and anyway, I miss Italy, and with the current world sitch, I don't see getting back to Arezzo anytime soon, damnit.
I'm US. It's lie. Hmmph.
I'm US. It's lie. Hmmph.
Well, that's what I think, as well.
But three - count 'em, three - separate copy editors back in the late eighties/nineties screamed at my usage for the "American market."
Feh.
Sure, Deb, Americans are supposed to use one fork at dinner and have bad grammar. :) I liked the Darla, and it creeped me out too. Who better than Klinger to act out an mpreg.(I just don't get that whole thing, I gotta tell you.)
I thought it was lovely, Deb.
(.... But use "lie", and I'll love it even more.)
I did make it "lie".
erika, those were AMERICAN editors, not UK editors. They screamed at me for it; I stetted "lie" they called me and howled. NOT UK copy editors being snobby; genuine US copy editors being insane. But their bosses wrote the cheques.
Yet another tiny reason I stopped writing for nine years....
I wanna see Klinger having an hysterical pregnancy, damnit.
Ugh, deb. I hope it's some consolation that around these parts you've got an audience that knows "lie" is the only right answer?
Yes, thank you. It's taken me years to get past some of the nonsense that was American publishing in that era.
Yes, thank you. It's taken me years to get past some of the nonsense that was American publishing in that era.
As opposed to the nonsense that is American publishing in this era? (:
Heh. Victor, so far this time around, I'm in the catbird seat, and I want to stay there. My editor's a legend and she loves me. Fingers, sooooo crossed, I'm surprised you can't hear tendons snapping.
Last time around, the Big Ole Masculine Kingpin of Publishing (and I am not naming names) helped himself to the sequel to Fire Queen and decided it needed "some good rapes. Readers like good rapes. Problem with women writers, they're afraid of sex and violence together."
(this, to a natural cross between an amazon and dom, right, brilliant....)