Don't you hate it when you've written the coolest page in a story, and you go to share it with the one whose judgement you trust the most (for me its my wife) and you're perhaps even laughing as you read something that strikes you as funny, and you look up to see her just staring at you like, "What in the heck is wrong with you!?" And her reply is a very tentative, "Well... it's good..." and then she adds, "It's a little wordy."
--Ray
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I'm not slow; I'm special. (Don't take it personally, everyone finds me offensive. Yet somehow I manage to live with myself.)
Ray, you do that to me with nearly every one of my soap box speeches here or on my blog... and probably would with any actual creative writing of mine you could end up editing in the future... so... no sympathy from me dude!
So, how's the saying go... payback 's a (self censored as it ain't a nice word in this context)
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
Cat, you're just upset because they didn't choose your short story for the bean leaf contest! Of course, they didn't choose mine, or anyone else's for that matter.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
They'll have to change their answer now anyway. Earlier they couldn't get to it because they were too busy with book 2. Now that book 2 is out, they're too busy with book 3 to get to the contest.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
So Solly... Actually, in truth, I'm not. It's called leveraging. I figure that if he and the other judges are really interested in the short story project, they would have moved on it before now.
The fact they haven't done anything speaks volumes, and honestly, if they aren't interested in stuff outside their core effort, then why expect folks they may find useful in helping to expand the franchise to stay interested.
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
This reminds me of how I sent a large bit of manuscript to a writer buddy of mine and he never commented on it and I keep thinking, 'oooo it must be really bad if he hasn't said anything yet.'
And I expressly told you to keep bugging me about it, because I knew this would happen... and this is the first time you did. (I actually came across the manuscript in my email the other day and thought, "Boy, I should start reading that... " then I thought, "Nah, she hasn't bugged me even once about it, yet..." :) I then promptly went on my merry little way...
--Ray
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I'm not slow; I'm special. (Don't take it personally, everyone finds me offensive. Yet somehow I manage to live with myself.)
