Great news, erika! Congratulations!
And motivation for me to catch up on my EQ backlog that has been languishing all year...
Anybody can be a prop class clown.
Xander ,'Touched'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
-t - Sep 05, 2025 10:55:33 am PDT #6711 of 6720
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Laura - Sep 05, 2025 2:00:27 pm PDT #6712 of 6720
Our wings are not tired.
Love reading that news, erikaj!
Calli - Sep 06, 2025 3:46:54 pm PDT #6713 of 6720
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Congratulations, erikaj!
sj - Sep 18, 2025 1:10:52 pm PDT #6714 of 6720
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Congratulations, erika!
erikaj - Sep 21, 2025 2:06:16 pm PDT #6715 of 6720
Always Anti-fascist!
Oh, thank you. Women editors matter, I think.
-t - Oct 03, 2025 12:09:22 pm PDT #6716 of 6720
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Hey, is anyone doing #FirstDraftFall with WeeknightWriters? I am thinking about it. I have a project I want to work on and a little external structure would probably help with that...and people I already know also doing it would be even better...
erikaj - Oct 07, 2025 4:07:29 pm PDT #6717 of 6720
Always Anti-fascist!
I've never heard of that, t. Submitting things I care about less takes some of the sting out of rejection, but it makes it hard to care about revising that stuff. How do I know when it matters?
-t - Oct 08, 2025 10:34:30 am PDT #6718 of 6720
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I just came across it erika, I guess it's meant to fill that NaNoWriMo hole that may or may not need filling? [link] I haven't really delved into it at all yet
erikaj - Oct 14, 2025 4:44:25 pm PDT #6719 of 6720
Always Anti-fascist!
I think there's room, both in general, and due to that insulting disability and AI conversation.
A blog post on what passes for my editing process, here. [link]
Karl - Oct 16, 2025 9:06:06 pm PDT #6720 of 6720
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.
Susan Stamberg. Walter Cronkite. Roger Mudd. Charles Kuralt. Peter Jennings.
These were the voices I trusted, not to inflame me, but to inform me, to tell me what was happening in the world.
And they're all gone now. Cronkite and Mudd got my mother and me through Watergate, though I hardly knew what was going on. And Cronkite's work on Vietnam was definitive, although before my time (I was born in '67.)
Kuralt was a friend, almost, after he retired. He and my mother rattled around coastal California in our old VW microbus, looking at properties and swapping stories. She used to come back from those drives with the sort of serenity that comes of long conversations about things that really matter. I wish she had gotten to have more of those. But I was enormously grateful to him for his friendship with her.
Stamberg was a voice on the radio from my earliest memories, always trying to make sense of things, always looking for the way through. I didn't always agree with her, even as a kid, but I never thought she deliberately lied or obfuscated. I miss the warmth of her voice terribly, just as I miss my mother's.
This is too long for Natter, so I'm putting it here. If it needs to get longer, I'll put it on my site and link it.