Would anyone like to take a look at a WIP short story for me? As the television writers say, it's a bit "high concept"(read "weird" and I just want to know what kinds of notes it hits with People Who Are Not Me.
If the apocalypse comes, beep me.
Buffy ,'Selfless'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
erikaj - Jun 25, 2009 9:02:37 am PDT #1758 of 6690
Always Anti-fascist!
Anne W. - Jun 25, 2009 12:52:56 pm PDT #1759 of 6690
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
erika, I should be able to look at it this weekend.
erikaj - Jun 25, 2009 3:11:52 pm PDT #1760 of 6690
Always Anti-fascist!
Thanks, Anne!
Burrell - Jun 25, 2009 7:04:28 pm PDT #1761 of 6690
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I would be happy to read it erika, but I wouldn't get to it until next week probably.
Allyson - Jun 25, 2009 7:11:28 pm PDT #1762 of 6690
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I sent my manuscript off to Agent Kate, and now bite my nails for the next four weeks waiting to hear if the edits pass muster and the thing can be sent to publishers.
So now I'm at a "what now?" place. I have a couple of ideas.
1. another kid's book, a picture book called "Phillip the Vegetarian Zombie."
2. "The Universe Makes a Lotta Gas: Stories from the Sidelines of Science"
3. "4437: Life in Los Feliz" (about my neighborhood and wacky neighbors).
Where to start?
Amy - Jun 25, 2009 7:18:57 pm PDT #1763 of 6690
Because books.
2. "The Universe Makes a Lotta Gas: Stories from the Sidelines of Science"
There are a couple popular science books for kids very much like that, Allyson. I'd go with the either of the others.
Burrell - Jun 25, 2009 7:24:50 pm PDT #1764 of 6690
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Oh was Universe Makes a Lot of Gas aimed at kids? I had assumed it would be essays on the nuts and bolts of how science works from the POV of the woman who runs the office. And I for one would love to read that book, if you wrote it.
But then I realize you should listen to Amy, not me. She works in publishing. I hide all my writing on my desktop and never do anything with it.
Amy - Jun 25, 2009 7:28:32 pm PDT #1765 of 6690
Because books.
Well, I think I assumed, based on the first book, and realize it may not have been. But there *are* books like that for adults, too. I'd have to look up titles, but there were a bunch even in the little Waldenbooks I worked in a few months ago.
Allyson - Jun 25, 2009 7:31:44 pm PDT #1766 of 6690
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
No, it isn't a kids book. It's essays from my work in science, like Burrell says.
I often think about how it is that lots of people know medical doctors and see them in their daily lives, but people seldom run into physicists (that they know about).
I see physicists far more in my daily life than the average person, I think. Rocket scientists. They're interesting and foibley and I experience these off things everyday: BEEP BEEP BEEP of a truck backing up, and there's a spaceship on it. It's surreal.
Allyson - Jun 25, 2009 7:33:48 pm PDT #1767 of 6690
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Ah...hm. That's a horse of a same color, then.