Buffistas

You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.

Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'

The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?

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A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.

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Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 21, 2009 6:04:21 am PDT #2578 of 6690

"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"

Am I thinking of doctoral projects? For those you have to write a book, yes?

A lot of people do, yes. Although academic books are losing currency with universities, over here at least, so people are more likely to turn Ph.D.s into several journal articles now. I think that's a shame, though. I love reading good, book-length non-fiction.

Agent~ma for you too, Amy!

erikaj - Oct 21, 2009 6:05:36 am PDT #2579 of 6690

Always Anti-fascist!

Barb, who doesn't want that? I don't even have an agent and I want that. Of course, I'm not likely to get an agent as a mystery writer who can't plot. Maybe I'll have to do it like improv: "Ok, give me a chronic condition, a deadly instrument, and a room in the house. Go!" Sometimes I wish another passion would well up in me so strongly that I just needed to hang up my keyboard for life. Because it makes me sad that writing could be my life's ambition and I'm still not that great at it. Because there is nothing else. I can't write well cause I haven't had a full life, yet the only way I really know to fix that is for the writing to get better. sigh.

Amy - Oct 21, 2009 6:35:47 am PDT #2580 of 6690

Because books.

Promising news! It's in an editorial meeting today! Meep.

Of course, it could still get shot down, but hey, someone liked it enough to take to meeting, so I'm counting that as a qualified win.

Ginger - Oct 21, 2009 7:36:13 am PDT #2581 of 6690

"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Yay! Yay! Yay!

(I was so excited I accidentally celebrated in Beep Me. Oops.)

Gudanov - Oct 21, 2009 7:37:32 am PDT #2582 of 6690

Coding and Sleeping

Congratulations Barb!

Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 21, 2009 7:38:30 am PDT #2583 of 6690

"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"

Barb, huge congrats! That sounds amazing!

Amy, sending lots of ~ma for the editorial meeting!

Amy - Oct 21, 2009 7:41:17 am PDT #2584 of 6690

Because books.

Yay, Barb!

Allyson - Oct 21, 2009 7:43:18 am PDT #2585 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'm supposed to hear back from my agent on Friday. I hope all the good news is contagious.

-t - Oct 21, 2009 8:03:03 am PDT #2586 of 6690

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yay, Barb, I'm so happy for you!

I hope so, too, Allyson.

Gudanov - Oct 21, 2009 8:12:24 am PDT #2587 of 6690

Coding and Sleeping

I hope the good news keeps flowing.

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