He doesn't travel well. He's like fine shrimp.

Anya ,'Touched'


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.


erikaj - Feb 11, 2014 12:39:25 pm PST #5920 of 6687
Always Anti-fascist!

I don't know. It probably doesn't help that my life has barely two parts: writer/indigent(and not really the gritty Carver kind. I'm too weird to write normal things and yet? Not strange enough to get locked up and make "outsider art")ETA: Which I mention not to incite pity, but because it makes rejection extra crushing when there's not some part of your life where you're really satisfied to point to.


erikaj - Feb 11, 2014 12:40:30 pm PST #5921 of 6687
Always Anti-fascist!

Well, okay, maybe I'm strange enough and haven't got caught yet.


Polter-Cow - Feb 11, 2014 2:44:41 pm PST #5922 of 6687
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Awesome, Sox!!

Ha, that sounds like awesomesauce. Awesome, Sox, you're awesomesauce.


erikaj - Feb 14, 2014 9:16:56 am PST #5923 of 6687
Always Anti-fascist!

Here's an attempt at one of the prompts...I don't write romantic things often. Maybe it's the date today. A middle-aged woman(although she would probably never call herself that, she knows she is. Probably, if not as ready for support hose as that phrase makes her feel) and a young man, arm in arm, step into the hotel suite they got for their anniversary. “Can you believe it’s been a whole year already?”

He nods, looking as proud and happy as she feels, but she likes it that he doesn’t jabber to fill the silence. All this joy from a relentless best friend playing with the age range on a dating site.


-t - Feb 21, 2014 3:04:35 pm PST #5924 of 6687
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Who has two thumbs and a copy of April's Azimov's on her kindle?


hippocampus - Feb 21, 2014 3:37:31 pm PST #5925 of 6687
not your mom's socks.

Who has two thumbs and a copy of April's Azimov's on her kindle?

Kermit flail.

-t how'd you make me allergy from all the way across the country.


-t - Feb 21, 2014 4:04:46 pm PST #5926 of 6687
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I'm a powerful irritant with a long range, I guess.

Excellent story, Sox. As I expected.


hippocampus - Feb 21, 2014 4:09:19 pm PST #5927 of 6687
not your mom's socks.

Excellent story, Sox. As I expected.

You are the first person to say this to me. I didn't realize I'd been holding my breath.

Thank you so much for that.


Amy - Feb 22, 2014 7:31:31 am PST #5928 of 6687
Because books.

Congratulations, Sox!

Brilliant.


Typo Boy - Feb 24, 2014 10:05:44 am PST #5929 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.

Dream dialog fragment

Victorious hero: "Show her to him. Let him see what the goddess he worshiped really was."

Defeated villain (unflinchingly glances at corpse of the monster, then says coldly): "I never worshiped her. I sacrificed to her. Just business."