So #3 is taking the crown, huh? (That's the one I think I like best, too.) So that's the one I'll play with this week!
sj, tell me what you didn't like about #1, just out of curiosity?
I like books. I just don't want to take on too much. Do they have an introduction to the modern blurb?
Buffy ,'Lessons'
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 - Nov 14, 2011 7:13:59 am PST #4864 of 6690
Because books.
Allyson - Nov 14, 2011 7:28:45 am PST #4865 of 6690
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Totally 3. It sounds so wicked and smells like funnel cake and doom.
sj - Nov 14, 2011 7:29:09 am PST #4866 of 6690
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
sj, tell me what you didn't like about #1, just out of curiosity?
It just seems like something that has been done before, at least the bored muse part. Sorry.
Amy - Nov 14, 2011 7:29:30 am PST #4867 of 6690
Because books.
It sounds so wicked and smells like funnel cake and doom.
Dude. There's the cover copy RIGHT THERE!
Amy - Nov 14, 2011 7:30:02 am PST #4868 of 6690
Because books.
It just seems like something that has been done before, at least the bored muse part. Sorry.
No need to apologize! That's what I need to know!
JenP - Nov 14, 2011 7:32:53 am PST #4869 of 6690
I love #3, especially for the possibilities of a point of view book from each triplet -- that has so much awesome potential for coolness and crossover and different angles on the same event or events. And an intriguing world I know little about.
I like #1, too, because I enjoy seeing a person dumped into an unfamiliar way of existing in the world -- either the world has changed or they have (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century! Sleeper! Gods who lose their powers!).
#2 appeals the least to me, I think maybe just because the two characters both sound like they'd be cranky at first, which is kind of silly of me, but that's all I can come up with for why it appeals less than the other two.
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I have to start writing. I'm so stressed about finances right now, that it's eating my brain. I see the light at the end of the tunnel, yay, but getting from here to there seems fraught right now. So, I am both anxious when thinking about it and anxious when trying to do anything else because I'm not thinking about it. Of course, what I really need to do on all fronts is take action.
Amy - Nov 14, 2011 7:35:18 am PST #4870 of 6690
Because books.
Maybe combine the two, Jen? Journal about the anxieties or even the steps you could in between now and then?
JenP - Nov 14, 2011 7:46:26 am PST #4871 of 6690
That's a great idea, Amy. Maybe that's my best use of Nano right now. Huh. Seems so logical now that someone thought of it for me. Maybe I need to just borrow other people's brain power right now until my own starts functioning again. Thanks!
Amy - Nov 14, 2011 7:48:40 am PST #4872 of 6690
Because books.
You can borrow my brain whenever you like, for what it's worth. (Which might not be much, just to warn you.)
Allyson - Nov 14, 2011 7:50:09 am PST #4873 of 6690
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I'm trying to plow through the proposal and clean up essays for my December 1 deadline. I need to add to/polish the essay on the sleezy motivational speaker and the rock bonding, as it's a good complement to first/introductory essay. But I keep falling back on Me and Chuck D, a piece on how Public Enemy got me through a science conference when i felt very small and stupid.
I think it's because I feel very small and stupid right now, instead of the usual righteous indignation. I don't have a lot of time. I need to focus.