The persistence of phlegmery

[cleolinda]

The interesting thing about the Death Blarg is that it's so variable from day to day that it's hard to quantify whether I feel "better" or "worse." On any given day, I might have fever, chills, a sore throat, a raspy cough, no voice, congestion, sneezing, and/or a miserably runny nose--but never all of them at once, and each day one symptom is

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[cleolinda]

Given that you would then have $667,000, more or less, I have to agree with this statement.

[ppyajunebug]

I think we should all be immensely grateful that Stephenie Meyer was not paid by the word. Can you imagine the wordiness of Varney combined with the Meyer prose?

[jaysta_11]

... this is what nightmares are made of.

[cue_face_palm]

The idea alone is enough to cause a mental "blue screen of death."

[cmdr_zoom]

(insert "hiss at the sight of the Cross" face here)

[insomniacafe547]

I think I get the idea where Death By Sunlight comes from.
If the rays of the moon revive vampires, then of course sunlight destroys vampires because the sun is opposite to the moon!

I'm so glad we don't have pay-by-word nowadays. *shudder*

[cleolinda]

Well, we do, actually--I want to say 3¢ or 5¢ is considered a good rate at some of the sci-fi/fantasy magazines, but I can't remember precisely. It's just that now, people pay for short finished works to put in magazines with a limited amount of space, so that kind of length isn't desirable--whereas it's very much what you want to publish if you're trying to fill column space or drag out a serial as long as you can.

[melchar]

Currently the 'pro' rate for fiction payment is 3 cents/word [or more]. The semi-pro market is getting paid -anything- up to 3 cents/word. The rate has not gone up since the 50's. There are better markets, but they are pretty rare.

[cleolinda]

Yeah, John Scalzi's talked about it a few times, which is where I remember it from. And he also talked about how the rates haven't gone up, which is interesting.

[jaysta_11]

Whoever said these were like crack during finals week wasn't kidding. It's so hard to sit here and read this and not crack a smile. Smiling in a class about death and dying would be awkward.

I think I like Chillingworth's title. Mr. Dr. Chillingworth.

Trying so hard not to smile. Failing miserably.

[ext_349852]

Ha! Yes for reading this during finals week! Vampires > immunology any day.

[cleolinda]

You know, I have no idea. Somewhere, but I don't remember where.

[ladyvyola]

I don't know if it originated the phrase, but Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken certainly popularized it.