Totally 3. It sounds so wicked and smells like funnel cake and doom.
Um, well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance. Then we ate cookie dough, and talked about boys.
Giles ,'Get It Done'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
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Allyson - Nov 14, 2011 7:28:45 am PST #4865 of 6705
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
sj - Nov 14, 2011 7:29:09 am PST #4866 of 6705
"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 6705
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 6705
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 6705
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 6705
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 6705
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 6705
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 6705
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.
Tom Scola - Nov 14, 2011 7:51:31 am PST #4874 of 6705
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Maybe #2 would be more interesting from the POV of the selkie?