Comments | scarlettina: Pinky swears are sacred (or, why I'm in writing overdrive)

scarlettina

Pinky swears are sacred (or, why I'm in writing overdrive)

Feb 19, 2008 13:08

So there I am at RadCon. It's dinner. It's Saturday night. There at the table are myself, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, bravado111, Dan Duval, bjcooper and mikigarrison. (I may be forgetting someone.) Kris and bravado111 are on my case about submitting my work: "You don't do it enough," they say. It became an embarrassing and yet oddly loving sort of scarlettina gang bang on the subject of submissions ( Read more... )

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oldmangrumpus February 19 2008, 21:36:36 UTC

Well, quite honestly, they're right; you don't.

That's With Love, mind you.

scarlettina February 20 2008, 02:29:27 UTC

Um. Right. :-)

botgrrrl February 19 2008, 21:39:39 UTC

Hmmm. Even though I'm a Christian, I've never been a big fan of "Year of Our Lord". Mostly because the date probably isn't right anyway.

I do like C.E. (Common Era) as it tends to confuse my co-workers. It has no benifit beyond that.

scarlettina February 20 2008, 02:28:08 UTC

Generally speaking, I prefer CE as well. I was just in a mood last night.

botgrrrl February 20 2008, 02:33:40 UTC

Hehehe. Sometimes it's fun to use a term or phrase to add "pomp".

kistha February 20 2008, 01:02:06 UTC

So how does one get on your (pre)reading list?

Both these titles have me v. curious.

scarlettina February 20 2008, 02:27:26 UTC

At this point, I don't really have a pre-reading list, at least not right now. I'm beginning to think that workshopping or previewing my work may not be very good for me, given how some feedback has shut me down pretty effectively before. Maybe it's just a phase I'm going through, but right now, I'm sort of feeling like I want to keep things to myself for a while, at least until they hit print. I'm glad the titles make you curious anyway; I must have done something right.

kistha February 20 2008, 05:06:00 UTC

I understand. But now I must pout - those titles are provocative. :)

But please keep me in mind, and remember that as a reader, not a writer I just tell you what I like, and what worked for me. I do point out continuity errors, because I just can't help myself.

steve98052 February 20 2008, 01:04:21 UTC

As an agnostic, I like the Common Era terminology. That works as for pretty much the entire world, not just the third-or-so of the world who recognize the dominus of "Anno Domini". I see that's the convention used in Jewish education, the literal translation of the Chinese term, and used in quite a few other contexts too.

scarlettina February 20 2008, 02:28:23 UTC

Generally speaking, I prefer CE as well. I was just in a mood last night.

e_bourne February 20 2008, 03:28:32 UTC

I give to you:
http://emr.cs.iit.edu/home/reingold/calendar-book/Calendrica.html

Common Era is for pussies. :-)

Today is 4 Epiphi 2756, or cycle 78, Year Wu-zi, Month 1, Day 13 (year of the Rat, for the English speaking, I believe), or Maksanyo, 11 Yakatat 2000.

I love Calendrica. I love Calendrists.com. Why be tied to your own time when there are so many to choose from?

Actually, I do find it very, very handy. I'm currently living on 25 Pharmuthi, and struggling with the dates of a lunar year.

scarlettina February 20 2008, 16:43:29 UTC

::cackle cackle cackle::