This thread is not for you

umm, there are more--you missed some.

Shawn

:Cheer: :Fairydust
Clearly, you failed to go to "show all smilies."

AAAAGGHHH!! I LOOKED!!! MY EYES!!! THEY BURN!!! AAAAAAGH!!!!!

My daughter likes them as well. She gets almost as happy as I do about them.

What do you mean this thread's not for me?
I love these little guys.

Joanne

Good title.

You know, by telling people a thread is not for them, you instantly make them WANT to read it. Good tactic. Maybe I'll try that with editors. Hmm.

Move along, nothing to see here.

rhymegirl said:

You know, by telling people a thread is not for them, you instantly make them WANT to read it. Good tactic. Maybe I'll try that with editors. Hmm.

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Dear Editor:

My 100,000-word techno-thriller The Da Vinci Code is not for you. You should never read it. If you do read it I can't be responsible for how you react to it.

However, just in case you're curious, here's the synopsis.
....

Sincerely,
Dan Brown

That totally works! I sent lots of 'first three chapters' things when my book was called something lame. No bites. Seeing as it was in diary form, I changed the name to 'Private-DO NOT READ' and I got some positive feedback and an agent to boot. In the end no one published it, but hey, at least they read the damn thing!




I love this one, this is me.

Great, Nivvie and Maestro! That's the spirit.

I was really just thinking I'd put something clever or intriguing in the Subject Line of an e-mail query. Like: DO NOT READ THIS, DO NOT OPEN,
SEXUALLY EXPLICIT MATERIAL, MUST BE 18 OR OLDER TO VIEW, and of course THIS IS NOT FOR YOU.

The curiosity factor ought to be in high gear.
But of course, all they'd really get is my nice, tame, well-written query.

On the other hand, they might just think it's junk mail and delete it first.

veinglory said:

Move along, nothing to see here.

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These aren't the emoticons you're looking for.

Oh, the things we do to keep our kids occupied and interested while we write!

I think my mother believed that we were air-deficient as I was permantently shooed out for 'fresh air'. And she didn't believe in television. I basically slept indoors but that was about it.
I can feel myself turning into her and quite frankly it's scary.

I once read about Shirley Jackson and that she basically had a load of kids and they amused after each other and were forbidden from disturbing her in her writing room.

Damn, I need one of those.
And I want it sound proofed.

Three year olds are pretty scarey people...

Nivvie, do I know your mother? My daughter likes to remind me that I'd send her and her brothers outside to play and get some vitamin D (from the sun). Not so I could write, I didn't write much then, but to save my sanity. It didn't work however, I'm completely bonkers. Ask anyone who knows me.

Nita

Just for HConn's son...

Tfd - That is EXCELLENT. Will definitely use for entertainment soon!

OK, love the mouse in a wheel one---and the lava lamp.

Shawn

...those are great......lol....thanks for sharing....

wait a minute....


yes sir, we have no bananas, we have no bananas today...




That's the way (uh huh uh huh) I like it!

tfdswift, you are a truly special human being. Thank you. I'm going to steal every single one.

Especially the chubby chick on the trampette, broke my ankle falling off of one of those damn things.....