"I'm sick of sitting round here trying to write this book"

[pameladean]

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Comments

[shadowflyer]

Good lord...a library, a Unicorn, or an emotional situation, you can't tell which?

You're not writing an Amber novel, are you?!

:-P

[pameladean]

Nope.

Embrace the power of "and".

P.

[shadowflyer]

But, but...you said 'or'...and 'and' just makes it....

Oh, never mind.

[pameladean]

Sorry. I should never try to be succinct. It only causes trouble.

P.

[swan_tower]

One is curious what the CERTAIN ALLEGEDLY HUMOROUS REMARK ABOUT WHAT YOU SHOULD CALL BOTH VOLUMES was.

[bunsen_h]

Bowling for Unicorns?

[pameladean]

*splort* Now THAT is what we call a complicated joke.

P.

YUP

[swan_tower]

And one of the few I actually get!

Jane Yolen

[guppiecat]

I thing you should name the first one "Going" and the second one "North".

Failing that, you should call them "Going Northeast" and "Going Northwest", so you wind up in the same place at the end. :)

[sdn]

in fact, your first suggestion was what i said.

[pameladean]

Sharyn, Josh. Josh, Sharyn. My work here is done.

P.

[bunsen_h]

How about Going North-Northwest and Southerly Winds?

[pameladean]

I am terribly tempted, but the confusion sown amongst bookstore clerks and indeed readers is hideous to contemplate. I do quite like Libraries and Fairies, though.

P.

[jonquil]

" It was good for my writing and my brain, but dealt a number of emotional and intellectual blows that I'm still wrestling with."

I'm very, very sorry for that. Cons should be, if not actually restful, safe places.

[jonquil]

I didn't go this year. I heard about the aftermath; it was all over my flist. And, as you say, a reminder that with so many strangers, there's no such thing as a safe place.

[jonquil]

There is no such thing as safety; it's a platonic ideal thingy, inferred from the variability of risk.

I think it's generally easier to go through life trying to evaluate degrees of risk rather than suffering the inevitable distress when an expectation of safety fails.

-- Graydon, who has a twitch about this one