Well, as we always say - hookers and blow!
Mal: That's not what I saw. You like to tell me what really happened? Book: I surely would. And maybe someday I will.
'Safe'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Toddson - Nov 17, 2011 9:24:21 am PST #7276 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Strix - Nov 17, 2011 9:24:39 am PST #7277 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oh, so WROD. (Wow, I haven't used that one in a while.)
Yeah, I'll wait "like a bitch" for 22K. 6.5 whole weeks! Why, I've waited 52 WEEKS for that.
Whiner.
Toddson - Nov 17, 2011 9:29:27 am PST #7278 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Years ago I read a book in which the main character is a writer. She writes "serious" pieces but writes series romances to pay the bills. In one scene she looks through her mail and finds a check for a piece in a serious magazine; it took her a long time to research and write it and then make revisions. The check is for a fairly small amount and took something like six months for them to send it. Another envelope has a check for a good deal more for a romance. It was one written very much to formula and she cranked it out in a short while and the publisher sent it fairly soon after she submitted the manuscript.
§ ita § - Nov 17, 2011 9:30:39 am PST #7279 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He sounds like this guy: >[link]Good god, that post uses hock as a verb twice. It's blistering my eyeballs.
My sister bought me this out of nowhere. I didn't even know she knew thinkgeek was a thing. So I'm wearing it today along with these and feeling quite cross-pollinatedly geeky.
erikaj - Nov 17, 2011 9:37:41 am PST #7280 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
I hope his next agent is Ari.(Actually not...he can make your ass *rich*) But I hope he acts like Ari. "I just dropped you as a client, you short-sighted fuckface. You are HISTORY. Write me a poem about *that*
Strix - Nov 17, 2011 9:38:07 am PST #7281 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
ita !, that reminds me...oops, can't say anything. D LURKS.
Someday, he'll say something. Maybe.
Zenkitty - Nov 17, 2011 9:50:03 am PST #7282 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Another envelope has a check for a good deal more for a romance. It was one written very much to formula and she cranked it out in a short while and the publisher sent it fairly soon after she submitted the manuscript.
I think I should be aspiring to do this. Writing serious fiction is HARD.
Strix - Nov 17, 2011 9:50:41 am PST #7283 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
NB: Altho I am seriously considering this for M for Xmas: [link]
Amy - Nov 17, 2011 9:55:39 am PST #7284 of 30001
Because books.
Another envelope has a check for a good deal more for a romance. It was one written very much to formula and she cranked it out in a short while and the publisher sent it fairly soon after she submitted the manuscript.
Most romance writers are not getting big checks, though, to be clear. Not until they're hitting the Times list, etc.
§ ita § - Nov 17, 2011 9:58:55 am PST #7285 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, Erin, that thing with the arms of the hoodie is really fucking nifty. Who the hell thought of that? They deserve a pat on the back and a brownie cupcake.