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.
Jayne: Yeah, that was some pretty risky sittin' you did there. Wash: That's right, of course, 'cause they wouldn't arrest me if we got boarded, I'm just the pilot. I can always say I was flying the ship by accident.
'Serenity'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
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SailAweigh - Oct 02, 2009 6:23:31 am PDT #2449 of 6690
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Gudanov - Oct 02, 2009 6:25:31 am PDT #2450 of 6690
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 6690
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 6690
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 6690
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 6690
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 6690
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 6690
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 6690
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.
Beverly - Oct 02, 2009 8:37:01 am PDT #2458 of 6690
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
erika, it sounds from the way you're writing that it wouldn't be worth the effort *to you,* *right now*. And that's the deciding factor, isn't it?