Speaking of short stories, today's Salon has an article up on the new collection of Connie Willis's short stories, which apparently includes both the wheat and the chaff.
Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.
Wash ,'Serenity'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kathy A - Jan 17, 2008 8:10:32 am PST #3880 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
§ ita § - Jan 17, 2008 8:13:38 am PST #3881 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Is it even remotely possible, allowing a certain amount of license for the hero of an action story, that my character can get off a Cutting Remark directed at the man who ordered him roughed up before he's overwhelmed by the pain and the extreme nosebleed?
Absolutely and totally. There are gradations of nose breaks. When I broke A's nose, she didn't even realise it. She just thought her nose hurt a lot. But I made her go look in the mirror because it didn't look the same as it had before I punched her. J had his nose broken twice--I was only there for one of them, but he was plenty vocal and sarcastic about it. There was a fair amount of bleeding and disfigurement. The second time was much worse--kinda splayed his nose across his face, and I'm not sure he was chatty then.
Daisy Jane - Jan 17, 2008 8:15:16 am PST #3882 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
At our magnet school (which had it's own aerodynamics lab) we probably had one maybe two truly gifted kids. The rest of us were just really interested in stuff and/or worked hard.
Kat - Jan 17, 2008 8:15:48 am PST #3883 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Do you find that kids who parents think are "gifted" are actually just kids who are less dumb?
HA! Yes. And frankly, as a teacher I'll take the hardworking kid over the gifted one every time.
Perfect Xpost with DJ.
Daisy Jane - Jan 17, 2008 8:17:00 am PST #3884 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Huh. Now he's a surgeon in New Orleans.
§ ita § - Jan 17, 2008 8:17:52 am PST #3885 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
frankly, as a teacher I'll take the hardworking kid over the gifted one every time
What about the kid who can perform B+/A- without working hard, and so doesn't? How much do you like them?
Daisy Jane - Jan 17, 2008 8:22:25 am PST #3886 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I'm not sure how hard I really worked, but I was really interested in most things-except biology. I always hated biology. It seemed so arbitrary, like "You need this body part, except when you don't."
ETA: Hee! ita is me!
Kat - Jan 17, 2008 8:24:26 am PST #3887 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
ita, a kid who is at a B+/A- is at least doing the work. The kids who irk me are the "But I'm GIFTED" kids who do exactly zero work and get an F, but have been told their whole life how smart they are.
sarameg - Jan 17, 2008 8:25:16 am PST #3888 of 10001
"You need this body part, except when you don't."
Placenta! The temporary disposable organ!
Yes, it's been 8 years and it still freaks me out. No less so now that I accidentally saw one.
Daisy Jane - Jan 17, 2008 8:25:19 am PST #3889 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Ah. Yeah, those usually left Magnet.