Comments | poorneedyand: second draft || [written]

poorneedyand

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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lists_to_port May 16 2011, 01:02:07 UTC

You and your Julius could not have then skeletonized this turkey between you?

poorneedyand May 16 2011, 01:05:51 UTC

It'd mean a full week of eating leftover turkey. There's very little food in this world good enough to eat every day for a week, and turkey's not on the list.

lists_to_port May 16 2011, 01:07:43 UTC

....Sandwiches?

poorneedyand May 16 2011, 01:47:44 UTC

Turkey sandwiches, turkey soup, turkey ala king - no matter what you do with it, it's still a week of turkey.

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[voice.] ohmykethe May 16 2011, 01:43:26 UTC

What're these stories about, then?

[voice.] poorneedyand May 16 2011, 01:49:39 UTC

The ones I've been working on, or the ones Julius writes? The drunken scientist stories are pretty self-explanatory.

[voice.] ohmykethe May 16 2011, 01:52:14 UTC

Suppose so. I mean the ones that you ain't finished yet.

[voice.] poorneedyand May 16 2011, 02:24:55 UTC

Those ones. Well.

[Pause for consideration. Kay's not used to talking about stories with people she doesn't know very well.]

One's about a hunter who's cursed for shooting a deer he shouldn't have. The other is about a woman defending her planet from invaders, mostly.

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[Voice - Filtered from Buffy - 10% unhackable] consultmybooks May 16 2011, 04:23:08 UTC

...you write stories, miss?

[Voice - Filtered from Buffy - 10% unhackable] poorneedyand May 16 2011, 04:30:17 UTC

Weird tales of all kinds. Why do you ask?

Re: [Voice - Filtered from Buffy - 10% unhackable] consultmybooks May 16 2011, 04:33:03 UTC

...I was trying to write a story, actually.

It's not going well.

[Voice - Filtered from Buffy - 10% unhackable] poorneedyand May 16 2011, 04:36:47 UTC

Well, what's it about? Sometimes it helps to talk it out.

I'm Kay Eaton, by the way. It's always nice to meet another writer.

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[voice] noprevaricating May 16 2011, 04:38:43 UTC

You've heard there's no currency here, haven't you?

[voice] poorneedyand May 16 2011, 04:40:39 UTC

I have.

[voice] noprevaricating May 16 2011, 04:41:28 UTC

I see. Well, time here passes differently. When you go back, your husband won't even know you left.

[voice] poorneedyand May 16 2011, 04:50:15 UTC

So I've read...but how can I be sure anyone here comes from quite the same world as I do? It's probably unlikely that time where I'm from runs at the same speed as time here, but on the very off chance he's spent the past week and a half wondering where I've gone--well, at least I haven't left him with a half-finished manuscript.

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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?

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