as posted on lj, I still need to come up with a new title for my EQ story(that was betaed by people here...thanks.) It's a darkly comic story about a first-edition "Maltese Falcon", a heist interrupted, and an accidental shooting. If it'll help, it happens in a family business, and you can be funny if you want...help me come up with something!
I'm sorry, dad. You know I would never have tried to save River's life if I had known there was a dinner party at risk.
Simon ,'Safe'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
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erikaj - Aug 18, 2010 12:56:53 pm PDT #3545 of 6693
Always Anti-fascist!
Gudanov - Aug 19, 2010 8:55:35 am PDT #3546 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
Oh hey, I remember that story, it was good. Jeez, a name, I can't think of anything offhand, I'm trying to remember the story better. It was first person so my first lame attempt: "The Maltese Falcon and Me"?
Gudanov - Aug 19, 2010 9:21:50 am PDT #3547 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
I finished up my short story that is my notes for my next novel.
Now back to Dead Mountain to analyze all my feedback and make my last round of changes before a final checking and cleaning up of grammar and punctuation. I'm not planning to get feedback on the this next version, from what I've gotten back I don't foresee big enough changes to go do that. Lots of tweaks, but nothing too major.
Typo Boy - Aug 19, 2010 10:36:18 am PDT #3548 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.
Nothing great has occurred to me. Sharing what I've come up with in case they spark something:
Black Falcon Down
The Falcon and the No Man
The Maltese Screwup
The Maltese Stumble
That Sweet Neck...
Scrappy - Aug 19, 2010 10:59:02 am PDT #3549 of 6693
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Falconry For Dummies The MF
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Aug 20, 2010 12:47:51 am PDT #3550 of 6693
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I've just been asked to write an article for the online comment section of the Guardian, on an exceptionally controversial subject to do with disability and feminism. By Monday. I fear the comments from the usual suspect crowd of right-wing disability benefits haters. And my schedule for the next three days. But, yay!
Amy - Aug 20, 2010 6:21:21 am PDT #3551 of 6693
Because books.
That's awesome, Seska!
erikaj - Aug 20, 2010 6:31:13 am PDT #3552 of 6693
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah, that's great. Don't waste time on the haters, though.ETA; Just read about the house thing...my mother used to do the paperwork and what-have-you to close on houses here. She made good money but grew to hate it.
Gudanov - Aug 20, 2010 6:33:55 am PDT #3553 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
Excellent. Yes, don't worry about the comments, comment threads are a Pandora's Box of unthinking rage.
Gudanov - Aug 20, 2010 10:45:52 am PDT #3554 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
Because I was trying to figure out if my short story was really a long short story or a really short novella, I came across the term 'Novelette'. I hadn't heard that one before but it fits the size.