That does help sometimes, Seska. You can do it! Submit, submit!
To the journal, I mean.
Hey, if it means I don't have to read any more, woo and, might I add, a big hoo.
Xander ,'Sleeper'
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.
Amy - Jul 13, 2010 5:11:03 am PDT #3441 of 6693
Because books.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Jul 13, 2010 5:24:33 am PDT #3442 of 6693
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
To the journal, I mean.
Heh.
Typo Boy - Jul 13, 2010 7:10:50 am PDT #3443 of 6693
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.
Back in the 60's Asimov along with a number of other writers voted a pretty editor as the editor to whom "we would most like to submit".
Gudanov - Jul 14, 2010 6:05:05 am PDT #3444 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
I'm now down 23,000 words. So far the cuts aren't too bad. Maybe I can save a couple of scenes that I thought would hurt if they were removed.
Connie Neil - Jul 21, 2010 9:12:40 am PDT #3445 of 6693
brillig
Typo, what's your book about?
Typo Boy - Jul 21, 2010 9:21:48 am PDT #3446 of 6693
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.
"Cooling a Fevered Planet: The U.S. role in solving the climate crisis". It is about the politics and economics of solving phasing out fossil fuels, dirty industrial processes, and destructive forestry, agriculture and land use.
Typo Boy - Jul 21, 2010 9:23:45 am PDT #3447 of 6693
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.
The editor does not like the use of the term "U.S." and wants to substitute American, so it sounds less "governmental". The critique makes sense, but I'm not sure of use of the word "American" as a substitute, given that the book does not deal with Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Brazil and all the other nations that are just as "American" as the U.S.
Connie Neil - Jul 21, 2010 9:37:46 am PDT #3448 of 6693
brillig
Is it being targeted to a U.S. audience or something broader? Most Americans (tricky usage) don't consider the other residents of the continent as Americans.
Typo Boy - Jul 21, 2010 9:48:09 am PDT #3449 of 6693
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.
U.S. audience. But this type of thing has crossover to Canada. Even if "American" in this context is good marketing, wouldn't it be bad writing?
And not going to fight my editor too hard on this, especially before acceptance. But isn't "American" for U.S. just wrong? Not politically incorrect, but an outright error, like confusing capitol and capital?
Connie Neil - Jul 21, 2010 10:57:31 am PDT #3450 of 6693
brillig
On strictly geographical terms, American would apply to the larger continental area, but I think political/social usage has made American mean USA. The United States of Mexico is just called Mexico, even though they're on the North American continent.