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second draft || [written]

May 15, 2011 19:47

All right, I've got to know: Are there any publishing outfits here? In a town this size, the chances seem slim, but for all I know, there's a paper no one's mentioned to me. I've got a story or two started, and if I could see them in print, I wouldn't mind dropping my asking price to zero cents a word. It won't hurt them to sit in handwritten ( Read more... )

[written], *mildmay, *rupert giles, *archie kennedy, *jack sparrow, *donatello, *haruhi suzumiya, *kantarou ichinomiya

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[voice] godbent May 16 2011, 18:29:47 UTC

My SOS-Brigade has a photo-copy machine that you could print stuff out on, assuming you find a means to type it out in the first place.

...Or hand-write, I guess.

[voice] poorneedyand May 16 2011, 22:10:53 UTC

Oh, how I long for an Underwood. But a ditto machine would work in a pinch.

Haven't heard of the SOS-Brigade before. What is it?

[voice] godbent May 16 2011, 22:48:39 UTC

The Spreading Excitement All Over the World with Haruhi Suzumiya Brigade. SOS-Brigade for short. We're in the guide.

[voice] poorneedyand May 16 2011, 23:12:39 UTC

I must've missed the bit about you. So are you the--[it takes her a moment to be sure she's got all the syllables lined up right]--the Haruhi Suzumiya in question?

[voice] godbent May 17 2011, 03:18:43 UTC

That's right, chief of the SOS-Brigade. I also have a laptop, but that's not for loan.

[voice] poorneedyand May 17 2011, 03:20:33 UTC

Nice to meet you. I'm Kay Eaton.

[She pauses a moment, frowning at the journal, for all the good it'll do her.]

...What's a laptop?

[voice] godbent May 17 2011, 03:57:02 UTC

Yeah, nice to meet you too- ... And uh, do you know what a computer is, before that?

[voice] poorneedyand May 17 2011, 04:02:26 UTC

I wouldn't be much of a science fiction writer if I didn't.

[voice] godbent May 17 2011, 04:12:41 UTC

A laptop's a special type of computer - sound out the name. It's one which is small enough to fit on your lap, usually using wireless-

...Wait! A real scifi writer?

[voice] poorneedyand May 17 2011, 04:16:29 UTC

Small enough to fit on your lap? Good Lord, that's an improvement over what we've got back at home.

Afraid so. Are you a fan?

[voice] godbent May 17 2011, 04:20:03 UTC

Depends on the writer, but more or less. [A pause, and then she adds] I guess one of my min-- [...] friends back home was a bigger fan though. She must have gone through at least three five-hundred something page books a week.

[voice] poorneedyand May 17 2011, 04:23:19 UTC

Who do the two of you like? I might know 'em.

[voice] godbent May 17 2011, 04:39:13 UTC

...Well, you know, we're Japanese. You might not know 'em. [...Um. Let's see . . last book she read?] Kouhei Kadono? Of course we've both read some Dazai. I've seen Yuki reading Komatsu and a lot of other classics, but then she also reads weird foreign things. Not even just normal ones like Card or Isaac Asimov or Orwell, sometimes stuff which I think is in Arabic or even Swedish.

[voice] poorneedyand May 17 2011, 12:07:45 UTC

Yeah, I suppose the Japanese part makes it more difficult. [She thinks back through the names, but Card is two years old where she's from, and Asimov doesn't exist. Disappointing.] Well, I've read Orwell, anyway. Everyone else is new to me. [Pause.] If there're translations of your Japanese authors, I'll have to go look them up. I'm sure they're great.

[voice] godbent May 17 2011, 18:09:09 UTC

Well, everything is auto-translated if you can find it in Luceti. I mean, if it wasn't how could anyone read anything at that big library?

[voice] poorneedyand May 17 2011, 21:35:02 UTC

They'd be limited to their own language, I suppose. I'll have to look for those authors of yours. [Pause.] Would you mind writing down their names? I'll be damned if I could guess at the spelling.

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