The Cure for Cabin Fever Cantina (aka: CfCfC)

Mr Flibble · Sep 13, 2009

Fenika said:
Also, Kitty Pryde writes Lit Fic about Cali boys.

Shunnnnn the non conformist. Shunnnnnnn.

I'm writing an historical romance

Am tempted to make it fantasy though. Not sure if my historical knowledge of 1690's English Navy in the Caribbean is up to it. Anyone know anyone who can give it a once over and throw their hands in the air in horror at what I done?

Mind you, I came up with a spanking new magic system, which, if I had to turn it fantasy, would be leik teh awesome.

Alan Yee · Sep 13, 2009

I've thought about writing fantasy stories or novels set in a specific historical era, but I'm hesitant because of all the research required. I'm afraid that I wouldn't be able to write old speech convincingly and that I'd get various other things wrong.

Kitty Pryde · Sep 13, 2009

Yes, I have great respect for people who can do enough research to write mostly-accurate historical fiction. Any time I write about 'real stuff' I spend ages agonizing that I've got it all wrong and everyone will laugh at me. I am only knowledgeable in like, 3 not very interesting subject, and the rest I think I have laughably wrong.

Mr Flibble · Sep 13, 2009

Yeah that's the trouble I'm having. Mind you the research I have doen has been..interesting. There's an account of a Spanish sailor with an Indian mistress and he caught her doing a 'lion-like creature' or so he says. And a race of people that don't talk and have great talons on their feet.

Weird

Fenika · Sep 13, 2009

Alan Yee said:
So you're asking to be shunned? You did join my unofficial non-conformist club, after all.

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Doh.

Plz to not shunz nonconformists.

IdiotsRUs said:
Mind you, I came up with a spanking new magic system, which, if I had to turn it fantasy, would be leik teh awesome.

I'll pay you three quid for your magic system

And KP gets my sympathies for writing queries. With or without fairies. Who dance with many merries.

Yes, I are going insane.

And JK gets sympathies too. QH sux.

K_Woods · Sep 13, 2009

I'm not writing historical fiction right now, but I've been doing a lot of research to pin down the feel of my setting. And there's the fragments of another future WIP brewing, which will be (alternate steampunky) historical. Set during the Columbian Expo, in fact.

Mr Flibble · Sep 13, 2009

Fenika said:
I'll pay you three quid for your magic system

Nuh uh, iz minez.

And JK gets sympathies too. QH sux.

Actually I love QH - it helps me distill the story in my head - Great for rewrites. And Kitty was very helpful. So I avoided making my MC sound like a paedophile ( among other things)

Young woman, not young girl. Lol

Fenika · Sep 13, 2009

But paedophile MCs are all the rage

I like pseudo historical stuff. I really should read some steampunk.

kct webber · Sep 13, 2009

Fenika said:
But paedophile MCs are all the rage

... ... Ahem. Sick, Baha. Sick, sick, sick.

Anywhoooo.... I think I'll jump a cake.

:hooray:

Mr Flibble · Sep 13, 2009

If it helps, though she looks young, she's actually several thousand years old. she just can't remember it

And my MC is 23 ish, which makes her the cradle snatcher.

And I am so second guessing myself just lately. I have no confidence in anything. Bah!

Fenika · Sep 13, 2009

Cake jumping is so last Cantina. Glass budgie smugglers are making a comeback though

(Okay, cake jumping never gets old. It's too funny a combo of emoticons)

No second guessing. Find the awesome and develop it.

Anyone getting their cradle snatched at 23 is prolly being done a favor

maxmordon · Sep 13, 2009

Writing a parable play about fanatism over here...

Mr Flibble · Sep 13, 2009

Fenika said:
Anyone getting their cradle snatched at 23 is prolly being done a favor

He thinks so

But then he's mad as a fish so...

Fenika · Sep 13, 2009

Btw, I still need to figure out how to tell my study partner we're just buddies:

Fenika said:
This guy has a crush on me. He's smart (like, smart for a vet student even), nice, studies hard, has a DVM in Pakistan. Offered me a massage, etc.
And I'm so not into him. *sigh*
Nice guy though.

Why are all the guys I like taken? Oh, it's b/c I'm in vet school. This guy's only single b/c he's new here.

kct webber · Sep 13, 2009

maxmordon said:
Writing a parable play about fanatism over here...

Fascinating subject. Good luck with it. Is it in English, or Spanish? Just curious.

<-----Doesn't speak much Spanish.

IdiotsRUs said:
He thinks so But then he's mad as a fish so...

How mad, exactly, is a fish? I've always found them quite sane. *shrugs*

Fenika said:
Why are all the guys I like taken?

Oh, how sweet. I had no idea you felt that way about me, Baha.

bettielee · Sep 13, 2009

Fenika said:
Btw, I still need to figure out how to tell my study partner we're just buddies:

Why are all the guys I like taken? Oh, it's b/c I'm in vet school. This guy's only single b/c he's new here.

Go to a party with him and find some hot dude to make out with.

Oh, did I mention all my ideas about how to deal with people are small and passive-agressive? Not good with humans. Sorry.

Fenika · Sep 13, 2009

kct webber said:
Oh, how sweet. I had no idea you felt that way about me, Baha.

You're on to me KC. I hated you when I first met you. But when Neuro confessed how much time you two spent talking, I was madly in love with you. I want to be the one you jump a cake for.

bettielee said:
Go to a party with him and find some hot dude to make out with.

Oh, did I mention all my ideas about how to deal with people are small and passive-agressive? Not good with humans. Sorry.

I kinda like it. Except then I imagine being on the receiving end... Ouch.

Neurotic · Sep 13, 2009

Fenika said:
Btw, I still need to figure out how to tell my study partner we're just buddies:

Something about a boy fancying the magic ghost pony.

Click to expand...

Why are all the guys I like taken? Oh, it's b/c I'm in vet school. This guy's only single b/c he's new here.

For telling people we're just buddies, I generally take the ignore it and hope it goes away approach. Unless it's actually brought up in conversation. Then I try to be gentle about it.

Don't do it my way, just by the way. Some people seem to take the gentleness (or at least lack of my usual mockery) to mean "no, but yes, maybe." And that leads to confusion. And awkwardness.

As for why the ones you like are always taken... Take it as a compliment to your taste in men.

kct webber said:
Oh, how sweet. I had no idea you felt that way about me, Baha.

Oh, God. Oh, no. The man-ego, she swells.

SAVE YOURSELVES!

*runs like hell*

Fenika · Sep 13, 2009

*Takes cover from the ego-deluge*

Yeah, but I hate it when I get hugged (awkwardly) in public by the guy that clearly has a crush on me. *sigh*

Next time we're sitting in the middle of the f--king cafe. lol

Fenika · Sep 13, 2009

*Takes cover from the ego-deluge*

Yeah, but I hate it when I get hugged (awkwardly) in public by the guy that clearly has a crush on me. *sigh*

Next time we're sitting in the middle of the f--king cafe. lol

Neurotic · Sep 13, 2009

The guy sitting next to me smells like a deodorant factory. It offends my nose. So I've decided it's close enough to my next class time for me to make like a tree and get the fuck out of here. Or something.

Good luck with your lovesick puppy, Brat.

Kitty Pryde · Sep 13, 2009

Yay! I entered my query letter (with a looooooooot of help from IRU and Baha) in the contest.

So, like, vote for me, because my query letter is really interesting and stuff.

maxmordon · Sep 13, 2009

kct webber said:
Fascinating subject. Good luck with it.

It's in Spanish, but is quite possible it will end up in English. Here you can read a thread I made about it:

http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=153086

maxmordon · Sep 13, 2009

Kitty Pryde said:
Yay! I entered my query letter (with a looooooooot of help from IRU and Baha) in the contest.

So, like, vote for me, because my query letter is really interesting and stuff.

I know I go in and out this thread and assume you have already answered this but... how can we vote for you, o magnificent kitty cat?

Fenika · Sep 13, 2009

Neurotic said:
Good luck with your lovesick puppy, Brat.

Cheers. Though my guy smells rather nicer than your guy.

Kitty Pryde said:
Yay! I entered my query letter (with a looooooooot of help from IRU and Baha) in the contest.

So, like, vote for me, because my query letter is really interesting and stuff.

*grumbles about ho hum lit fic*

What?

maxmordon said:
I know I go in and out this thread and assume you have already answered this but... how can we vote for you, o magnificent kitty cat?

See the sticky thread about the contest thang.

And lastly:

I'M DONE. FIN. IT'S OVER. THERE'S NO MORE. I just gotta ship it off to betas and trunk it til next year. :e2woo:

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