Congrats on the nominations! I've voted for you in all of them - I hope they don't throw my votes out because I'm a non-liberal! :)
> No one shall ever touch my text again, no matter how much it needs it.
My favorite version of this was an author screaming "I don't need a f***ing editor!" at my one-time boss. When it became my job to copyedit his work, every time I found the slightest error in his text I gloated privately. :)
A-ha! Well, next time I have a link to share, I'll try to remember that. Thanks adamsj!
Apparently I don't know how to post links anymore. Here they are:
What not to do at MegaChurch
http://www.livejournal.com/community/convert_me/63952.html
What not to do at ROTK
http://www.livejournal.com/users/blzbob/47176.html
Don't know if any of you have seen these yet:
What not to do at MegaChurch
Things not to do at Return of the King
I will not read this at work. (human, self)
I will not steal the straw hat off the head of the nice lady who feeds me, then turn around to face the farthest corner of the stall and eat said hat. (a friend's horse, Papillion)
I will not race into the bedroom and launch myself off of the sleeping man's face to get his attention because I was stupid enough to get a plastic bag stuck around my neck. (my cat, Smudge)
I will *check* to make sure the laundry basket lid is closed before jumping on it. (again, Smudge)
I've heard garments referred to as "Jesus Jammies" - before I knew what they were, I thought they were PJs with pictures of Jesus on them!
I've decided I'm much more afraid of fires than I am of earthquakes out here in So Cal. Fortunately none of these fires are near me, but I know a lot of people with family, friends and co-workers who live near them. The news this morning said about a half million acres have been burned and over a thousand homes have been lost in these fires. Frightening stuff.
To-Do List: (1) Mine this thread for more books to add to my reading list (2) Win the lottery (3) Quit my day job (4) Do nothing but read for the next five or ten years.
My fellow student's story is exactly what you described - standard genre fantasy characters running around loose in standard genre fantasy settings, questing for the magic rose-quartz dingleberry while they try to defeat the Dark Lord who92s trying to take over the world. One of the only twists is that they aren't questing for the magic rose-quartz dingleberry - he plays keep-away with it instead. I feel like he's trying to condense too much into a short story - there are too many characters with too many difficult-to-pronounce names and too much going on for a short story. It seems like he's trying overly hard to be Tolkein-esque, and I wish he'd look for a few interesting bits to focus on and just tell us those bits in his own voice in a short story instead. I was happy to see someone submitting genre fiction to the class, but I've ended up feeling jaded - and I'm not even a great writer or that well-read. Maybe part of me is just jealous that he actually wrote the kind of story I only read and wish I could write well.
Thanks Alec Austin for posting the link to your essay, I'm going to print that out too - as much for myself as for my classmate.
Can I just attach this entire thread to one of my classmate's submissions for our short story class? It's got all the bells and baubles, but it's still just nothing and I'm having a hard time finding a nice way to say so. I'm about the only fan of genre-fiction in our class and everybody is oohing and aahing over it but I'm just bored.
I can't get to any LoC pages :( When I try to go to www.loc.gov I get errors - and interestingly enough when I just typed loc.gov I got redirected to loc.gov.org instead. Bizarre. I'll keep trying.
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