Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.

Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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.


Barb - Oct 02, 2009 6:17:59 am PDT #2448 of 6706
“Not dead yet!”

Oh, that was a Norwegian accent? I've always wondered.

Actually, I goobered, based on an assumption. I knew he was from North Dakota and somewhere in my memory banks, I had it in my head that he was of Norwegian or at least, some sort of Scandinavian descent. However, he was actually of German descent, his family coming from Alsace-Lorraine by way of Odessa, Ukraine. So his accent was actually a mutt of German and Russian.


SailAweigh - Oct 02, 2009 6:23:31 am PDT #2449 of 6706
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Oooh, lovely, all! So fun to see so many people contributing and so many different perspectives on just one word. This is why I love drabbling.


Gudanov - Oct 02, 2009 6:25:31 am PDT #2450 of 6706
Coding and Sleeping

Somehow I missed that there was a theme. Um. . . welcome to chapter 18.


Connie Neil - Oct 02, 2009 6:26:43 am PDT #2451 of 6706
brillig

I for one was never that wedded to the theme thing, but it is a handy leaping off point.


SailAweigh - Oct 02, 2009 6:32:47 am PDT #2452 of 6706
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Exactly. And wasn't one character welcoming the other in your drabble, Gud?


Gudanov - Oct 02, 2009 6:34:44 am PDT #2453 of 6706
Coding and Sleeping

And wasn't one character welcoming the other in your drabble, Gud?

Yes! I stumbled my way into the theme.


Beverly - Oct 02, 2009 6:38:08 am PDT #2454 of 6706
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Myron Floren was, however, Norwegian.

:facepalm::

And yet, I fail to remember my PIN.


Amy - Oct 02, 2009 6:55:01 am PDT #2455 of 6706
Because books.

Drabbles! It's so nice to see them in here again!

I should write one, too. Having a hard time thinking in the cold meds fog, though.

Which gives me an idea for a new prompt for today: fog.


Connie Neil - Oct 02, 2009 7:15:41 am PDT #2456 of 6706
brillig

oooh, fog . . .

I drive down the hill, around a curve, and the world ends. Red flashes ahead warn me to stop.

A deputy coalesces from the grey. "We're letting one lane go at a time, five at a time. Go slow."

My headlights off the grey blind me, but no lights is madness. I'd never see the tree that could kill me. There's no sign of the car that I know is ahead of me.

5 MPH, and I open the door so I can see the white line below me. Three miles of terror and awe.


erikaj - Oct 02, 2009 8:28:11 am PDT #2457 of 6706
Always Anti-fascist!

Ok, I've got a question that I'm aware, just by asking it, I could sound like a giant asshole, but I'm going to ask anyway: Is it always worth it to revise off editor feedback? It's not that the feedback is so awful, although a few pieces were certainly unexpected, but, you know, it's kind of an insignificant little 'zine, so even if I completely *nail* the revisions and do the best work of my life, I'll have twelve readers and a tiny payment two months from now. Yay me. Which I know I would have loved three years ago when I was all butt-hurt about the form letters and "Would a little feedback kill these bastards or what?" But he basically told me that I need to take the whole thing apart...getting it right would take a lot of effort and I'm not sure what the return is beyond the cheap hit of a byline.