connie, I think if this group does any circling there will be more pointing and laughing - and snarking, lots of snarking - than anything else.
Tell me more good stuff about me.
Kaylee ,'The Message'
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.
Toddson - Aug 28, 2008 9:37:57 am PDT #794 of 6681
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Barb - Aug 28, 2008 9:38:58 am PDT #795 of 6681
“Not dead yet!”
What? No Clue x Four? Aw, c'mon, pretty please? It'd be a stress reliever.
Allyson - Aug 28, 2008 9:41:10 am PDT #796 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
So...should I withdraw my advances and royalties in small bills, burn the money, and dance naked around it to warm my artist's soul?
amych - Aug 28, 2008 9:42:16 am PDT #797 of 6681
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I still want to know what kind of web server lets you write -- sorry, scribe -- to the drive in ink. If it's Apache, I'm pretty sure it's an add-on module.
Barb - Aug 28, 2008 9:43:49 am PDT #798 of 6681
“Not dead yet!”
So...should I withdraw my advances and royalties in small bills, burn the money, and dance naked around it to warm my artist's soul?
You mean you bartered your artist's soul for something so craven as coin? Heathen.
Anyone got a crowbar so I can pry my tongue out of my cheek?
Ginger - Aug 28, 2008 9:45:05 am PDT #799 of 6681
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I'm saying that for writers, ANY artist, encouragement shouldn't even be a factor.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money." - Samuel Johnson
I've written for a living for 30+ years, but I'm not a Writer.
Scrappy - Aug 28, 2008 9:45:26 am PDT #800 of 6681
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
This Cliff Burns is a pompus blowhard of the highest order.
erikaj - Aug 28, 2008 9:46:05 am PDT #801 of 6681
Always Anti-fascist!
I'm a writer because if I actually kill people, society gets upset. In re keyboarding, to paraphrase Greg House, I broke my brain. I got a note.
erikaj - Aug 28, 2008 9:46:24 am PDT #802 of 6681
Always Anti-fascist!
Allyson - Aug 28, 2008 9:49:32 am PDT #803 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
Cliff Burns is AWESOME. I've never felt so centered.