That is an awesome quote, Jilli, and one I should remember especially now, when the hormone demons are keeping up a constant chant of not good enough, not good enough, not good enough...
Wash: I'm not leaving her side, Mal. Don't ask me again. Mal: I wasn't asking. I was telling.
'Out Of Gas'
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.
Anne W. - Oct 05, 2011 4:20:46 pm PDT #4700 of 6690
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Atropa - Oct 05, 2011 4:22:24 pm PDT #4701 of 6690
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
For those of you not on Tumblr:
"Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the only you.
Tarantino - you can criticize everything that Quentin does - but nobody writes Tarantino stuff like Tarantino. He is the best Tarantino writer there is, and that was actually the thing that people responded to - they’re going ‘this is an individual writing with his own point of view’.
There are better writers than me out there, there are smarter writers, there are people who can plot better - there are all those kinds of things, but there’s nobody who can write a Neil Gaiman story like I can."
hippocampus - Oct 05, 2011 4:26:06 pm PDT #4702 of 6690
not your mom's socks.
I love that.
Toddson - Oct 06, 2011 10:18:20 am PDT #4703 of 6690
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
For those who hate the serial/Oxford comma, an online tutorial. With some literary commentary.
Amy - Oct 06, 2011 10:19:26 am PDT #4704 of 6690
Because books.
From io9, The Ten Types of Writer's Block.
hippocampus - Oct 06, 2011 12:02:25 pm PDT #4705 of 6690
not your mom's socks.
oh Toddson. Thank you. hahahahaha.
Atropa - Oct 06, 2011 12:08:46 pm PDT #4706 of 6690
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Double-checking my contract does reveal that my publisher is the one who handles translation sales. My agent was also a bit surprised, and has emailed my editor for more exciting details.
Tonight, I get to do some research and write up a few paragraphs explaining why a German translation deal for GCS is a REALLY GOOD IDEA. (My agent says publishers love being given that sort of information, and that numbers are especially good.)
Ginger - Oct 06, 2011 12:14:17 pm PDT #4707 of 6690
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Germans: the original Goths
Strix - Oct 08, 2011 8:25:07 pm PDT #4708 of 6690
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Heh, and Ginger beat me to it.
Barb - Oct 10, 2011 7:02:41 am PDT #4709 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
Have I mentioned lately how very much I hate synopses?
And you'd think that reworking an existing synopsis would be easier, but nooooooo... not when one is completely turning the story ass over teakettle.
BAH. Frelling synopses.