Author Topic: Good Morning 2011: Wherein the emo comes to roost (Read 97248 times)

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #1150 on:** October 21, 2011, 07:12:29 PM »

Check your PMs, Tide.

Shale · « **Reply #1151 on:** October 22, 2011, 12:07:11 AM »

Oh man, that blows. Better than suffering through a job you hate but man does it suck when life gives you nothing but shitty options.

Good luck.

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #1152 on:** October 22, 2011, 03:07:34 AM »

As usual, misfortune falls upon the rest of us while Shale laughs and pats us on the head, offering pithy condolences as he coasts through life.

At least the Eagles are eating Shale's negative karma.

Cotigo · « **Reply #1153 on:** October 22, 2011, 03:38:44 AM »

Quote from: Hunter Sopko on October 22, 2011, 03:07:34 AM

As usual, misfortune falls upon the rest of us while Shale laughs and pats us on the head, offering pithy condolences as he coasts through life.

At least the Eagles are eating Shale's negative karma.

Sopko's misfortune is that he is Sopko. QED.

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #1154 on:** October 22, 2011, 03:43:03 AM »

Quote from: Makkotah on October 22, 2011, 03:38:44 AM

Quote from: Hunter Sopko on October 22, 2011, 03:07:34 AM
As usual, misfortune falls upon the rest of us while Shale laughs and pats us on the head, offering pithy condolences as he coasts through life.

At least the Eagles are eating Shale's negative karma.

Sopko's misfortune is that he is Sopko. QED.

Yep, and Zenny smells like... well, you know.

Veryslightlymad · « **Reply #1155 on:** October 22, 2011, 03:20:35 PM »

Quote from: Hunter Sopko on October 22, 2011, 03:43:03 AM

Quote from: Makkotah on October 22, 2011, 03:38:44 AM
Quote from: Hunter Sopko on October 22, 2011, 03:07:34 AM
As usual, misfortune falls upon the rest of us while Shale laughs and pats us on the head, offering pithy condolences as he coasts through life.

At least the Eagles are eating Shale's negative karma.

Sopko's misfortune is that he is Sopko. QED.

Yep, and Zenny smells like... well, you know.

Week old crusty semen.

Grefter · « **Reply #1156 on:** October 22, 2011, 11:12:04 PM »

Shame, regret, booze and a loneliest Saturday morning in existence.

So yes week old crusty semen.

Cotigo · « **Reply #1157 on:** October 23, 2011, 04:12:58 AM »

You forgot disappointment.

NotMiki · « **Reply #1158 on:** October 23, 2011, 08:21:06 AM »

Quote from: Makkotah on October 23, 2011, 04:12:58 AM

You forgot disappointment.

He didn't feel it was necessary to beat a dead horse.

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #1159 on:** October 23, 2011, 08:25:21 AM »

Beating the horse long after it's dead is the only way to get that unique scent to start with.

Grefter · « **Reply #1160 on:** October 23, 2011, 10:39:53 PM »

Calling it a horse is very optimistic.

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #1161 on:** October 23, 2011, 10:42:54 PM »

Comparing yourself to the horse is the first tactic of the desperate.

DjinnAndTonic · « **Reply #1162 on:** October 24, 2011, 09:33:31 AM »

To be fair, in Japan, even an average-sized American gets to wear the condoms that have a horse on the cover of the box.

Lady Door · « **Reply #1163 on:** October 24, 2011, 06:08:55 PM »

The class in this joint... man.

OblivionKnight · « **Reply #1164 on:** October 24, 2011, 06:32:00 PM »

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superaielman · « **Reply #1165 on:** October 24, 2011, 06:33:10 PM »

OK: Always quick on the trigger.

On a slightly different note, my car is now working fine and has done so for a month. Any bets on how long till it explodes?

superaielman · « **Reply #1166 on:** October 25, 2011, 10:17:13 PM »

So my little brother is driving us to class today. We're on 64 driving west when traffic just literally stops out of nowhere. Some deplorable idiot decided that it'd be good idea to go 35 in the fast lane! Traffic suddenly stops. Brother breaks but it's way, way too late to stop the car, so I look quickly to my right, yell 'change lanes', and he manages to (while breaking still) change lanes right before he would have slammed into the car. So glad I was paying attention, or I'd likely be in the hospital right now in the best of circumstances.

I'd just like to give a FUCK YOU to the idiot who nearly caused a multicar pileup by dicking around on their cell phone or driving with their feet or fucking with their radio instead of driving.

NotMiki · « **Reply #1167 on:** October 26, 2011, 03:49:58 AM »

Signing up for my final semester's worth of classes tomorrow. Hard to believe I'm already nearing the end of law school. Time really flies.

Bobbin Cranbud · « **Reply #1168 on:** October 27, 2011, 09:47:52 PM »

An agent requested a sample of by far my best novel to date, which unfortunately is too long to be readily salable in its genre and so usually gets unsold by its query letter. This is the first time I've managed to get the actual work in someone's hands, even if only the first 50 pages.

Spent the week going through it and polishing it up.

Heard today that she decided not to take the rest.

Lady Door · « **Reply #1169 on:** October 27, 2011, 11:57:34 PM »

First and foremost: Congratulations for the follow-up! That's pretty awesome.

Condolences on the ultimate answer, but a bite like that -- requesting pages! -- is a great positive step. Keep at it.

Grefter · « **Reply #1170 on:** October 28, 2011, 06:27:39 AM »

Applied for promotion today. This time it got advertised while I was out of state and my manager was on leave. It was being advertised for a week, found out yesterday. Closes on Monday. I know it isn't personal bit goddamn sometimes I feels like they are trying to tell me something.

Bobbin Cranbud · « **Reply #1171 on:** October 28, 2011, 06:38:24 AM »

Quote from: Lady Door on October 27, 2011, 11:57:34 PM

First and foremost: Congratulations for the follow-up! That's pretty awesome.

Condolences on the ultimate answer, but a bite like that -- requesting pages! -- is a great positive step. Keep at it.

I've gotten this far before (plus actually selling nonfiction). Striking out on a novel I consider a solid, workmanlike piece is Tuesday. This one hits harder than most because it's the only novel I've written in the last half-decade that I really put a lot of heart into, rather than writing to what was popular, and this agent specifically wanted the genre and even cited the same author I would as a close equivalent.

Nonetheless, thanks for the encouraging words, and, indeed, I do feel better about it by now. I never expected a 200,000 word novel to even get looked at in this market; it's not even the main one I'm shopping at the moment.

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #1172 on:** October 28, 2011, 07:25:01 AM »

OOC: How many pages is the completed manuscript?

Lady Door · « **Reply #1173 on:** October 28, 2011, 04:23:20 PM »

It doesn't matter whether it's your first bite or your tenth - getting a bite at all means you're doing what you need to be doing, and you just haven't found the person to take it on with you. Managing to get bites more than once just means you're a good writer no matter what you're taking on.

But yeah, I totally dig how crushing it feels to have something personal let down like that. So does Andy: he had his first short story submission rejected and he stopped writing altogether for months. <_<

Back on the horse, etc.

Good luck.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1174 on:** October 28, 2011, 05:54:01 PM »

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Author Topic: Good Morning 2011: Wherein the emo comes to roost (Read 97248 times)