Anyone who's interested in what a rejected partial looks like, I just posted over at my blog. [link] (It's in two parts.)
Poor little skating story that there's no market for. Boo, market.
Now, I can hold a note for a long time...actually I can hold a note forever. But eventually that's just noise. It's the change we're listening for. The note coming after, and the one after that. That's what makes it music.
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Barb - Jan 05, 2009 10:14:09 am PST #1250 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
Typo Boy - Jan 11, 2009 9:16:46 am PST #1251 of 6690
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Procrastination
Each of us is born with an unknown sacred mission,
which Death interrupts a day before it is finished.
Death always refuses us that last day.
"You got what everyone gets - a lifetime" she says. "It's not my fault you wasted the time you could have spent fulfilling your sacred mission"
Dedicated to Neil Gaiman's character "Death of the Endless".
dcp - Jan 11, 2009 10:04:21 am PST #1252 of 6690
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Dedicated to Neil Gaiman's Death.
Er...what?!
Atropa - Jan 11, 2009 10:06:54 am PST #1253 of 6690
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Dedicated to Neil Gaiman's Death.
Er...what?!
I'm assuming the character Death, from The Sandman. You know, the iconic friendly goth girl? Big hair, swirly eyeliner, ankh necklace?
dcp - Jan 11, 2009 10:11:22 am PST #1254 of 6690
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Oh. Okay. Just so long as it is not an announcement of recent news, or a statement of intent....
Typo Boy - Jan 11, 2009 11:04:50 am PST #1255 of 6690
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Yeah, maybe his most popular character. (The Sandman may be the titular title of the comic, but Death is the one who is so popular she became a cliche in Goth clubs for a while, and Goth girls stopped dressing like her. OK, maybe some of his non comic book characters are more popular.) I stole the line "You got what everyone gets - a lifetime" from Gaiman's Death. She uses it several times, once to a baby who complains "that is all I get", once to a guy who boasts of having survived Millenia. I think I'll edit to make it clearer.
Typo Boy - Jan 11, 2009 1:59:27 pm PST #1256 of 6690
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Typo Boy - Jan 12, 2009 9:04:38 am PST #1257 of 6690
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Just wanted to express my love for Erika's piece linked in press. I originally did so when she first posted, but unfortunately did not notice I was posting in press. (Sorry ita and Stompies).
This is totally top-quality pulp Noir. If the pulps still existed they would pay her a dime per word until some big Hollywood producer noticed her work, hired her to write for scripts, and she ended up with a tasteful suburban mini-mansion.
erikaj - Jan 12, 2009 9:33:34 am PST #1258 of 6690
Always Anti-fascist!
Thanks, Typo Boy...yeah, that's me, the second coming of Leigh Brackett. I kid, but that is something of an ambition, well, since I learned who Leigh Brackett was. Don't need the mansion...maybe just a comely minion to pick up the stuff I drop. Maybe some limber young dude, so I can say, like Frank Pembleton, that I keep him around cause I like how it looks.
Connie Neil - Jan 16, 2009 8:29:43 am PST #1259 of 6690
brillig
So I'm reading some old fic of mine from my Equalizer days and being amused by the 80s-ness of it and pleased that the plots and characterization hold up. But my POV is all over the place. I bitch at people when I'm editing about POV, and it really annoys me when other writers can't keep POV straight. Still, when I've tried re-writing these stories, a focused POV just seems cramped. I'm not sure if it's "mustn't change my baby!" syndrome or a case of "follow what's right, not what the rules say."
So, what "rules" of writing do you find yourself chucking out the window when the muse insists? Or is your muse better trained than mine?