That sounds exactly like the Big Sleep story. That dude never knew who killed anyone.
Hey, don't worry about it. Nest full of vampires, you come get me, okay. Box full of puppies, that's more of a judgement call.
Jonathan ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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.
Polter-Cow - Dec 06, 2013 8:51:43 am PST #5883 of 6687
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
erikaj - Dec 06, 2013 9:00:32 am PST #5884 of 6687
Always Anti-fascist!
I don't think that that was ever the point for him, no, but now I'm wondering if he did it twice, or if we just heard it about different books.
Scrappy - Dec 06, 2013 9:19:35 am PST #5885 of 6687
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Oaky, what if she's dead because of some drug issue--killed by a dealer she owed money to. Maybe she told him she was gonna trade him the masters of the album for a large debt But she lied and doesn't have them and he killed her. he could be a dealer/music fan, so when our hero meets him, it could make a good scene.
Burrell - Dec 06, 2013 10:02:21 am PST #5886 of 6687
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Oo, Scrappy the plot whisperer! I am totes going to hit you up sometime.
erikaj - Dec 06, 2013 12:46:07 pm PST #5887 of 6687
Always Anti-fascist!
That could work, too, because that's how she got them in the first place. I'll have to cogitate about that.(/inner Boyd Crowder)
Scrappy - Dec 06, 2013 1:16:42 pm PST #5888 of 6687
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Nothing I love more than "what if..." sessions!
Ginger - Dec 06, 2013 1:29:35 pm PST #5889 of 6687
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Could there be someone else in pursuit of the tapes for other reasons? Suppose there was someone else who had worked on the album who everyone thought was dead. Maybe the tapes included clues as to what happened to him. Or suppose there was a murder and the murderer knows that some part of the murder or the argument leading to it might have accidentally been recorded during a session. Or perhaps the rights to very popular song had been contested in court for years and the tapes might show who had really written it.
Typo Boy - Dec 07, 2013 3:21:13 pm PST #5890 of 6687
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
A paper I'm criticizing used a footnote to falsely accuse someone of distorting the contents of a paper cited. Citing a paper as saying something it does not is a major academic sin. So now I find myself using a footnote of my own to point out that the original citation can be backed up by the contents of the papers cited, and it was the accusation of distortion that actually distorts the contents. And probably the right thing to do. But conducting a dispute in footnotes feels - I dunno, like me and the person I'm criticizing should be at a high tea, sniping verbally at one another. Or perhaps conducting a duel at dawn with pistols that need to be reloaded after every shot.
erikaj - Dec 08, 2013 8:36:28 am PST #5891 of 6687
Always Anti-fascist!
Thanks for all the thoughts. It's easier for me to write things before I have to make a lot of decisions and stick with them(as a writer, I'm like Windows that way, I think.)
Gudanov - Dec 10, 2013 6:25:55 am PST #5892 of 6687
Coding and Sleeping