He's especially venomous in the blogging threads, where he rips into people who lack his reverence for the sacred art putting words on paper.
Willow: It feels like we're going around in circles. Xander: Our circles are going around in circles. We got dizzy circles here.
'Sleeper'
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.
Connie Neil - Aug 28, 2008 9:24:45 am PDT #784 of 6681
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Allyson - Aug 28, 2008 9:25:44 am PDT #785 of 6681
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
Has he ever been published?
Toddson - Aug 28, 2008 9:27:12 am PDT #786 of 6681
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
You know, I periodically run into the Writer (say it with awe) mystique. Used to work with a woman who called herself a writer ... I saw what she produced for business writing. She could not write a simple declarative sentence. (I understand she wrote a romance novel and it was rejected with a note that it was the worst thing the reader - editor? hazardous waste manager? - had ever read.)
Me, I write an article that goes in our monthly publication. It's not deathless prose, it gets me no notice (it's published without a byline), but it's decent work. The grammar and spelling are (mostly) correct, it makes sense, people actually read it. But I don't consider myself a writer (much less a Writer).
Connie Neil - Aug 28, 2008 9:28:03 am PDT #787 of 6681
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I don't think so, though perhaps in some small press magazine. I would think he'd be touting his credentials.
I'm sure his website, which he helpfully gives in the writing class thread, would tell you.
Connie Neil - Aug 28, 2008 9:29:36 am PDT #788 of 6681
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Whenever someone breathlessly declares "I am a Writer" (capitalization assumed), I think of Evie in The Mummy drawing herself up proudly and declaring "I am a librarian!"
Allyson - Aug 28, 2008 9:32:26 am PDT #789 of 6681
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
Hee. I was just doing that outside as I was banging my head against a wall over work stress. In exactly that Evie tone.
Barb - Aug 28, 2008 9:34:15 am PDT #790 of 6681
“Not dead yet!”
Look for CliffBurns. He's in several places. You'll know him when you read him.
I haven't clicked on the link, but I swear, I KNOW that name from somewhere. As if I've run into him somewhere along the line before.
I'm almost a'skeered to click.
Allyson - Aug 28, 2008 9:35:08 am PDT #791 of 6681
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 love this line: I'm saying that for writers, ANY artist, encouragement shouldn't even be a factor.
Seriously, I'd die without hairpats.
Connie Neil - Aug 28, 2008 9:35:24 am PDT #792 of 6681
brillig
t pictures Buffistas slowly circling in on Cliff, imagines the mayhem that could ensue, cackles in demented glee
Connie Neil - Aug 28, 2008 9:36:34 am PDT #793 of 6681
brillig
Seriously, I'd die without hairpats.
You're supposed to be doing it to sooth the eternal artistic angst of your soul, not for anything so plebian as approval.
Oh, god, now he sounds like someone who reads Twilight