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Gudanov - Nov 09, 2011 4:42:19 am PST #4832 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping

I've pulled some boner moves, because I just didn't know what I was asking was Not The Done Thing.

I'm sure I have as well.

My writing group (online, there's no way I could do one in person with my schedule) annoyance is that I've just done two reviews, one of them pretty detailed, and I've gotten no acknowledgement at all and I know they've been buy because they've posted on the forums there quite a bit. I think it especially grates me because it's been a very long time and many,many reviews since I haven't gotten a nice thank you (and sometimes a polite discussion) when I've done one.

hippocampus - Nov 09, 2011 12:08:02 pm PST #4833 of 6693
not your mom's socks.

ARGH! Boring Novel Is Boring. ARGH.

erikaj - Nov 09, 2011 12:41:42 pm PST #4834 of 6693
Always Anti-fascist!

Are you the most...established writer in the group, Amy? Cause maybe she's waiting for the Secret Handshake or something.

Liese S. - Nov 09, 2011 4:04:25 pm PST #4835 of 6693
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Yeah, I just didn't know! If someone had smacked me down gently at the time, I would have been upset, but I would have been the better for it in the long run.

Amy - Nov 09, 2011 4:10:37 pm PST #4836 of 6693
Because books.

I have the most experience, if that's what you mean, erika.

I think she's reacting more to my editorial experience than my writing, since she's never seen my writing, as far as I know.

erikaj - Nov 10, 2011 8:51:05 am PST #4837 of 6693
Always Anti-fascist!

Still, kind of a bold move with someone you just met.(I suppose I did that with Herself and some Buffy fic once...I had an idea that I was psyched about and she said "Yeah, cool," and I took that to mean "I'd love to read more--RIGHT NOW.Luckily for her, I write slowly so she was able to say "Nice start, but people usually *ask*) But I sort of knew her. I think it's weird, for all the articles about how isolating the internet is, all of us typing in our lonely, ticky-tacky boxes, the thing I've noticed is that the sense of public and private is getting a little skewed...maybe cause it takes just a few clicks to call someone a Friend.

Amy - Nov 11, 2011 5:41:50 am PST #4838 of 6693
Because books.

For Nigel Tufnel Day (i.e. 11/11/11), the challenge is to write eleven-word stories and post them to Twitter with the hashtag #11words.

It's a little easier than Hemingway's six-word ones, anyway.

hippocampus - Nov 11, 2011 5:49:55 am PST #4839 of 6693
not your mom's socks.

I'm feeling lucky I can still count to 11 after night #2 of Croup + fever. WTH - I thought croup was over when she could read or something. (I know this doesn't make sense. My brain is on slush mode).

Ginger - Nov 11, 2011 6:02:05 am PST #4840 of 6693
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Eleven words is hard:

If the bloodstains come out, I can sell the wedding dress.

Strix - Nov 11, 2011 7:21:56 am PST #4841 of 6693
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

And it turned out that the drunken monkey had been correct.

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