ARGH! Boring Novel Is Boring. ARGH.
Wash: So, two days in a hospital? That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors? Simon: Hey. Wash: I mean, present company excluded. Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.
'Ariel'
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.
hippocampus - Nov 09, 2011 12:08:02 pm PST #4833 of 6690
not your mom's socks.
erikaj - Nov 09, 2011 12:41:42 pm PST #4834 of 6690
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 6690
"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 6690
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 6690
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 6690
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 6690
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 6690
"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 6690
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.
Amy - Nov 11, 2011 7:24:25 am PST #4842 of 6690
Because books.
You have to tell a whole story, though. And you have to tweet it! Well, you don't have to, but it's fun.