What in the hell is this, Greg?  If I post here, will I be loathed by everyone on the site?  You know how fragile my ego is, damnit!

Greg, go read your email.  WARNING:  I'm screaming at you

Against my better judgment I guess I'm in.  I always was a HAR!lot.

I couldn't decide what to post until I noticed some discussion of what might be left behind when you die and how embarrassing that would be even though you're dead.

That made my decision for me.  Here's my first post in Cycle One.  Whatever that means.  I pay no attention to Greg.


http://www.thenextbigwriter.com/library … read/19400

kairosguy wrote:

Well, here's mine, complete with wp processing messups that makes it lack a ton of white space that I put into it.

http://www.thenextbigwriter.com/library … read/22920

It's published as a novel, but the total finished work shouldn't hit more than 10k words. It is intended to be the first in a series.

Thanks!!

This site is funny about formatting.  If I post using one browser it looks like your story.  If I use another browser it turns out okay. 

To do an edit, which might or might not work, you don't have to republish.  You can just do the edit and submit.  It doesn't cost any points and doesn't appear on the front page again.

Last edited by kat nove (08-17-2008 20:19:38)

kat nove wrote:

I couldn't decide what to post until I noticed some discussion of what might be left behind when you die and how embarrassing that would be even though you're dead.

That made my decision for me.  Here's my first post in Cycle One.  Whatever that means.  I pay no attention to Greg.


http://www.thenextbigwriter.com/library … read/19400

Awesome. looking forward to checking it out. Gotta leave vacation and go back to work tomorrow :-( but maybe I can steal an hour from The Man and give it a look.

Cheers,
B

kairosguy wrote:

Cool, good advice, Kat. I'll fiddle with it in a IE browser tomorrow and see if it will fix it. Thanks much!

I'm the biggest end user on the planet, so if my advice about computers works, I expect the Earth to leave it's orbit or explode or something. 

You're welcome.

HavePenWillScribble wrote:

I got the scotts irish confusion factor. I had no idea about the kama sutra. I think I had a
'Makin Bacon t-shirt that showed all those corkscrew positions. I wouldn't know Kama Sutra if it twisted my big toe into some kinda yoga pose. I had no idea why he was laughing, just thought he was actually thinking about Yogi bear. Kama Sutra is something I missed, down south they have the Dixie Sutra which is missionary position, one hand push up, bottle of JD in the other...I think. Reproductive habits of the various flora and fauna are just too damn  complicated.

Truth be told I just googled "kama sutra" and chose funny positions. I think I may need to work a position into the list called "the camel's suitor" to get the joke across to the sutra-illiterate.

The dirty truth is that I don't do comedy/humor per-se and have nothing to post.

Things are sometimes thought of as funny when I do them but I don't usually intend to be funny.

Tirz

kairosguy wrote:

Well, here's mine, complete with wp processing messups that makes it lack a ton of white space that I put into it.

http://www.thenextbigwriter.com/library … read/22920

It's published as a novel, but the total finished work shouldn't hit more than 10k words. It is intended to be the first in a series.

Thanks!!

Brian, I loved part 1 and my review is done in the normal way.  It's probably not the least bit helpful to you. 

As for your question about making the scene in the restaurant into a short story, that's certainly feasible.  Personally, I'd spend money I don't have to buy a book where Jackie is the narrator and McShane is mentioned every few paragraphs.

Okay.  I finally figured out how to get a complete URL to post a story for critiquing on this thread.  Here is it: www.thenextbigwriter.com/library/index.html/read/19634.

Now I'm gonna try to review somebody else's.  Will my comments be avaible to all or only to the author?

Anybody got any advice on how best to use and abuse this site?

Cheers, Sonny

Oh, and episode four of The Literary Lugwrench is live at, uh, here: http://veinarmor.libsyn.com/rss

HavePenWillScribble wrote:

Oh, and episode four of The Literary Lugwrench is live at, uh, here: http://veinarmor.libsyn.com/rss

If you guys haven't listened to Greg's Literary Lugwrench, you should.  It's a hoot and he does a great job discussing actual literary things.  Besides, I'd like to know if anyone besides me imagines Greg with an eyepatch and a parrot on his shoulder.