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.)
Very convincing. Makes me completely want to put myself under government control. Please take me to where you can make me unconscious and naked.
Riley ,'Help'
Buffista Fic: It Could Be Plot Bunnies
Where the Buffistas let their fanfic creative juices flow. May contain erotica.
erikaj - Mar 22, 2003 4:28:56 pm PST #2796 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Rebecca Lizard - Mar 22, 2003 4:50:45 pm PST #2797 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
I thought it was lovely, Deb.
(.... But use "lie", and I'll love it even more.)
deborah grabien - Mar 22, 2003 8:20:29 pm PST #2798 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
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.
amych - Mar 22, 2003 8:28:20 pm PST #2799 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
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?
deborah grabien - Mar 22, 2003 8:31:21 pm PST #2800 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Yes, thank you. It's taken me years to get past some of the nonsense that was American publishing in that era.
victor infante - Mar 22, 2003 8:33:06 pm PST #2801 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
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? (:
deborah grabien - Mar 22, 2003 8:38:40 pm PST #2802 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
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....)
Lee - Mar 22, 2003 8:44:34 pm PST #2803 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I want to come up with some witty condemnation of that editor Deb, but my mind got stuck on "But that's just wrong. And gross. And wrong." so that's what I'm going with.
victor infante - Mar 22, 2003 8:45:01 pm PST #2804 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
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.
Woo and hoo! My manuscript (already published columns and essays, so no big whoop) is gathering dust while I'm preoccupied trying to launch a magazine. Blech.
deborah grabien - Mar 22, 2003 8:57:54 pm PST #2805 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Perkins, same editor told me that they wouldn't look at people like Hemingway and du Maurier today ( that being 1991 or thereabouts); too hard to (get this) "niche-market" them.
I destroyed the sequel rather than let them have it, put the book I was working on (it happened to be Weaver) in a drawer, and walked away for nine years.