GD, That conga line is both incomplete and giving me a headache. I demand more doctors, I demand ALL tha doctors!!
(Also Silence.... <.<)
I'm trying to get my lazy, socially-anxious ass together to call a possible place of employment to ask if I can come see the place, possibly talk about a brief unpaid internship (which the jobcentre assures me will make my resume look better... somehow). But that requires calling and the phone is scary.
ETA: Called them, no answer or answering machine, which I might have preferred anyway. Bah.
Coool... The world (of fiction) needs more elephants! Safjre sounds cool, too! Coolness!
Yes. Stevebot, bring the drinks. Reminds me, does anyone know anything about, gosh, an awful lot of regulars we haven't seen lately?
I do hear a lot of huff and puff about internships without pay. But good on you for making the phonecall REL!
You rock, and I think you're the bestest and that any fear you have is also a fear you can conquer because you're so dang cool and capable. My faith is not misplaced, you CAN succeed, damnit, you just gotta keep trying, keep keep keep trying! Phone them again at a different time of day and see if that works. Phone other places. EMAIL other places! Try try try, beat that dead horse until your necromantic wand wakes it up again!
And yeah, Safjre is supe's mega cool because she's also a train operator....
In a space ship. That's alive. And angry.
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Maybe people with courage and ulterior check-up methods should contact our old compatriots and see if they're doing swankily or not?
Yay, go us!
*stares at her manuscript in Scrivener*
I swear I'm not intentionally trying to increase the body count of my story. I just keep writing my characters into corners where adding to it is inevitable. (In this case, a handful of anonymous mercy kills.)
I had a similar problem once upon a time. Then I actively began limiting the number of characters and murders I could fit into a story, and looking for different solutions/punishments than death for my characters. It seemed to help, and tightened my books up a bit. They all need a hecka ton more work, but they're also easier to follow with fewer names and bloodied faces.
TO PUBLICATION!!!!
*falls in line* Yeah, I thought I was doing well yesterday and had gotten past a major brainblock only to have a different but similar one fall into it's place today. I've also been struggling lately with being afraid my entire Snow White retelling sucks even though I personally like it and know full well that any issues can be edited into submission. Why must our brains torture us???
MY DUDE, Effbubbles, we musta traded brianblocks then, cause I just beat a whole dang chapter into the Manuscript where it needed to be; saying what it needed to say and filling holes it needed to fill. I don't mind sending the muse back your way iff'n ya want it still...
I don't think it's your (read: our) place to decide if a story we make is truly good or not. I mean, don't like, put out something you aren't proud of, but also, like, don't think yours is the final say on whether the story is good, because it's not (Your say, I mean). The final word on every book ever belongs to the last and latest reader of said book(s). All that really matters is finishing something that other people can choose to love or not love on THEIR own merits. Not yours. Once the book is done, your part is complete, and your new job is showing it to people so they can love it, hate it, or leave it...
and also making more books.
Whew, I'm incredibly late to this, but here's my take anyhow:
(1) Hell-bent is hyphenated.
(2) My first thought was "Can a grandfather set aside his honor?" but my vote's for "An impossible choice and a daring rescue."
(3) Perhaps this?
All Maelan wants is to do his duty to his Chief and maintain his family’s good name. His granddaughter Orlagh, however, seems hell-bent on ruining everything.
When Orlagh falls in love with an itinerant bard, Maelan must rule with an iron fist to keep her from running away.
He fails.
The resulting quest leads to several bargains with the Fae and a choice that will change their lives forever.
GD!!!! Pay attention to this beautifully named individual's words, for they are pertinent and potentially helpful!
Question here: What is Sisyphus? I've read that several times now. I know Camus' version, but I assume it's a specific event in this case.
Aggy got the gist of it good, but there's also this: The Sekrit Solstice Sci-Fi Fantasy Story Swap (SS-SFF-SS) is a time of mad writing and right madness, where participants share they're stories with giftees and then everyone tries to guess who gave what to whom and it's all mega fun and delightful and I lurves it and you should consider participating if it piques your interest and life does not get in the way.