So subtle didnt work....
I BOUGHT A NEW CAR!!!!! I GOT 55.5 mpg on the way home!!!!! No more spending 300 a month on diesel!!!
Woo-Hoo!
Which kind?
So subtle didnt work....
I BOUGHT A NEW CAR!!!!! I GOT 55.5 mpg on the way home!!!!! No more spending 300 a month on diesel!!!
thank you my friend... I really have to go to bed, now...
Woo-Hoo!
Which kind?
dude... .I'm sorry... but I'm not goin' in those waters. Not for nobody, no how.
Debio, you are on your own there.
I have pics of Timber to show Fen, but it'd be a very picture-heavy post (10 pics, it's a series), so I thought I'd ask first. Anyone against?
Oh, just in case. I am, against my better judgement, taking part in the Round Table discussion on "Are the Rules Beneficial". You know the "avoid adverbs" type rules.
I have pics of Timber to show Fen, but it'd be a very picture-heavy post (10 pics, it's a series), so I thought I'd ask first. Anyone against?
You know, I started reading that thread... then stopped when the OP started getting argumentative and not reading the advice given.
Much luck there, Debio...
I have pics of Timber to show Fen, but it'd be a very picture-heavy post (10 pics, it's a series), so I thought I'd ask first. Anyone against?
I got mine at 37, to celebrate sending my first novel off to a publisher. At least the tattoo worked out
I was going to go for a hot-air balloon ride to celebrate turning 40, but when my birthday arrived, I had two newborns at home. Maybe 45?
Cool! Do you have a design in mind?
So subtle didnt work....
I BOUGHT A NEW CAR!!!!! I GOT 55.5 mpg on the way home!!!!! No more spending 300 a month on diesel!!!
Yeah, like I said earlier, I'm done. It wasn't worth my energy or sanity.
With the exception of watching the occasional mega-meltdown or catching up on one in TIO, I don't venture too far from the safe harbor of the Cantina.
Not counting binning the whole thing, my record is cutting everything before the last scene and making the last scene the first scene. The character whose peril was the turning point into the final gallop towards the end now dies on the first page.
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Depends on whether you started too early or too late. I think I've gotten myself to the point where lop-n-chop doesn't hurt quite so much. Maybe. Okay I lied.
Wait just a darn minute. You mean to say that it's possible to start a story in the right place the first time? I've been going about this all wrong.
DRIVE-BY.
What up, cantina?
In a moment of shameless self-promotion, DBtM is up for a Reader's Choice Award on a book blog. If you enjoyed the story and are so inclined to click a button in support, kindly vote for it here. Right now it's tied with Stephan!e Meyer$ The H0st. Not sure how I feel about that.
The Tattoo Story
Or, Why You Should Never Get A Tattoo In A Language You Don't Speak
Back in the late 90's I worked for this nasty little dot com outside of Boston. Having just recently graduated college, I still had at least some command of Japanese, and had been tasked with "translating" everyone's business cards into Japanese because we did a fair bit of business there. As a result, I had a lot of kanji up on the white board in my office with common elements like "manager", "director", "engineer", etc.
We were having some work done in the building at the time. One day one of the workmen came into my office to apologize for accidentally drilling through my office wall and noticed my white board.
Workman: "You speak Japanese?"
Me: "Some. Mostly I read it."
Workman: "Yeah?" [rolls up sleeve, shows me complex tattoo] "Can you read this?"
It wasn't a kanji I was familiar with, so I pulled out my Nelson (dictionary) and started looking it up. For those unfamiliar, you look up Japanese kanji by a combination of common elements and number of brush strokes it takes to draw a character. So I'm narrowing it down, and Workman guy starts getting impatient. Just as I'm nearly there -- on the right page, running my finger down looking for just the right one -- he says:
Workman: [proudly] "It means sex fiend!"
Just as he said that I found the character, and in fact it meant "pervert" and "child molester". He was looking over my shoulder as I found it.
He left my office a very, very dejected man.
Ick hated the HOST... stupid, spineless, passive character. Almost as bad as Trilight. Haven't read yours but I bet its 1000% better!
Great story, though!
I think I'll stick to my plan to get a phoenix. Someday. (This year, since it's my outrageous thing to do when I'm 40.)
So subtle didnt work....
I BOUGHT A NEW CAR!!!!! I GOT 55.5 mpg on the way home!!!!! No more spending 300 a month on diesel!!!
So subtle didnt work....
I BOUGHT A NEW CAR!!!!! I GOT 55.5 mpg on the way home!!!!! No more spending 300 a month on diesel!!!
Me, too.Always happy to see family pictures of the furry children...
What kind of car is it?
Me, too.
Oh, you were talking about dogs.
It's one of those eco-friendly things that make you talk about wearing home-spun fibers and putting goat cheese on pizza, the crumbly kind mind you, just by driving them.
Now that my own drive by post is done,I'm taking my cold medicine and going back to bed. It is 1am.
I got your hint. But I read it too late lol.
It's one of those eco-friendly things that make you talk about wearing home-spun fibers and putting goat cheese on pizza, the crumbly kind mind you, just by driving them.
Now that my own drive by post is done,I'm taking my cold medicine and going back to bed. It is 1am.
And Shadow, its a Prius.