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arbusto_baboso (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 02:03 PM Original message |
I'm writing a science fiction novel..... |
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EastTennesseeDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
1. If Stephanie Meyer can get published, we all have a chance. |
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arbusto_baboso (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 02:36 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Gah! Don't get me started on her drek! |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:41 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. There's a whole bunch of sexualized vampire shit out there... |
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arbusto_baboso (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:45 PM Response to Reply #8 |
14. Then you might want to stay away from watching Girls Next Door. |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:52 PM Response to Reply #14 |
22. No... I recognize a lot of such criticism as what it is... envy. |
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arbusto_baboso (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:56 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Now YOU are laboring under a false impression. |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 04:00 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Monetray? I take it you really work your editors hard. |
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arbusto_baboso (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 04:02 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. Oh, so now you do the Spelling Nazi bit. |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 04:06 PM Response to Reply #31 |
35. I don't worry about sentence structure on a message board... |
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arbusto_baboso (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 04:11 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. Yes. But not paying attention to how many "misspellings" can be explained by simple typos... |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:40 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Yeah, because no publisher in his/her right mind would EVER want to make |
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arbusto_baboso (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:43 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. So, making money trumps publishing decent books? |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:49 PM Response to Reply #10 |
19. I liked them |
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arbusto_baboso (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:51 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. I strongly disagree that they are "decent books". |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:53 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Neither am I... |
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arbusto_baboso (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:58 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. Wow, you take an offhand comment by one poster, and my reply, and turn this thread into an argument |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 04:01 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. Hardly insignificant, considering how many people read them... |
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arbusto_baboso (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 04:02 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. Oh, please, go right on thinking that. |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 04:06 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. Arrogant fuck, aren't you? n/t |
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arbusto_baboso (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 04:09 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. Again, that's really rich for YOU to be saying! |
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Chan790 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 04:13 PM Response to Reply #1 |
38. Meyer is merely the latest in the long degradation of popular literature... |
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TZ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
2. Actually |
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arbusto_baboso (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 02:05 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. It would probably be too big budget for SyFy. |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:42 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. You'd have to throw in piranhas with legs or something to get on the Sci-Fi channel. |
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arbusto_baboso (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:43 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. I can do that! |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:45 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Add in an unstable nuclear power station and you're in the money! |
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arbusto_baboso (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:46 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Yes, yes. And I'll throw in some major dams about ready to burst, too. |
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PVnRT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 02:10 PM Response to Original message |
4. Why Belgium? |
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arbusto_baboso (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 02:12 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Why not Belgium? |
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bif (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:44 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. How about a million tons of fries? (Pommes Frites) |
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arbusto_baboso (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:47 PM Response to Reply #12 |
17. True. But the Belgians could meet that demand too easily. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 04:33 PM Response to Reply #12 |
40. 1 ton of fries per burger? |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:46 PM Response to Original message |
16. Your premise is flawed. Belgium was created by aliens. They are patiently waiting. |
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arbusto_baboso (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:48 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. WHA?!?!?!? |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:50 PM Response to Original message |
20. Get an artist to paint a buxom woman, scantily clad, and holding onto a big "gun" |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:55 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. Haha... |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
27. The core of science fiction is that it's the literature of ideas. |
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arbusto_baboso (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 04:01 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. GET OUT OF MY MIND!!!!!! |
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DU GrovelBot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 04:02 PM Response to Original message |
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rcrush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 04:28 PM Response to Reply #33 |
39. Why are you always #33? |
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