Comments for Loose Leaf Stories

Comment on Sick of… nope, just sick by Erica Lindquist

Erica Lindquist — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:06:31 +0000

Better. He’s bringing me ice cream and orange juice. Mmm.

Comment on Sick of… nope, just sick by Gabriel Gadfly

Gabriel Gadfly — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:42:20 +0000

I feel you. I’ve been sick as a dog last week. Hope you feel better soon! Make Aron bring you lots of hot tea and soup.

Comment on Sometimes I wonder… by Erica Lindquist

Erica Lindquist — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:48:05 +0000

Thanks, Karen. You made me blush just then. Writing can be a very isolating, introspective process. It’s easy to forget that I’m not working in a vacuum, that there are people that I do not know in the flesh who actually enjoy the work Aron and I do. And really, that’s enough. Every time someone has fun reading something we wrote, all the hours of work are entirely validated.

On a related note, I adore the word “bah.” It conveys so many levels of meaning!

Comment on Sometimes I wonder… by Karen Morris Herkes

Karen Morris Herkes — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:25:49 +0000

“circumventing the publishing gatekeepers is ruining literature.”

Bah, I say. Bah.

Circumventing the publishing gatekeepers is doing nothing more than stripping the soul of literature down to its skivvies and reveal the beautiful chiseled-ab magnificence of Storytelling.

“Publishing” is a relative newcomer to the world of idea-dissemination, and it developed from the need to overcome the expensive practicalities of physical manufacture and distribution. Publishers only became the arbiters of Good and Right when they took on that mantle and no one ripped it away.

No wonder there’s a lot of scared running-around-arm-waving happening in TraditionalPublishingville these days. Their Mantles of Authority are looking like the Emperor’s New Clothes.

I’m just sayin.’

It’s a big bold brave world of billions out here. Teller to listener. Writer to reader. With luck and work and relentless presentation, writer to reader to reader to reader…stories aren’t stories until they’re shared, and then they magically become something sublime and unique, however bad or good the prose, however timeless or ephemeral their themes. If the demise of publishing results in an explosion of storytelling creativity then we all win.

Gatekeeper, schmatekeeper. Flood my market with prose and poesy and raw bloody words. I’ll wallow in it like a pig in mud and pull out the pearls to keep — as I have done with your work.

Keep offering up your fantastic worlds, engaging characters and great style, and I’ll continue to read whatever you write. More, please. Please, please please!

Comment on Different heroes by Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:49:18 +0000

Saw a great t-shirt…

“And then Buffy staked Edward. The end.”

Comment on Different heroes by e6n1

e6n1 — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:28:09 +0000

Heheh and re: ‘a whole subset of humour’: Where’s Buffy when you really really need her back?

Comment on Different heroes by Erica Lindquist

Erica Lindquist — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:04:28 +0000

And George Takei wouldn’t get to rant against it with his lovely voice. Now THERE’S a voice that sounds like velvet.

Comment on Different heroes by berlichtingenDan Brown

berlichtingenDan Brown — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:05:53 +0000

Twilight has its good points. Without Twilight, we never would have heard of sparkly vampires, and a whole subset of humor would have been lost

Comment on I’m going to just start making up words by Erica Lindquist

Erica Lindquist — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:15:45 +0000

Okay, I think you make a good point, Tyler. I had to look them up to verify that they were earmuffs. I’ll go change the terminology in the story and see how it comes across. Thanks!

Comment on I’m going to just start making up words by Tyler

Tyler — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:05:26 +0000

It is a little hard to say whether or not it would be obvious that you were avoiding a certain word or phrase. You are assuming that your readers know that they are technically called ‘earmuffs’. I had no idea what they were called until you wrote it. It seems a logical assumption that when most people hear ‘earmuffs’, they think fluffy snow gear. I think I will ask some people (either friends or strangers) what they would call “those things you wear over your ears at a firing range”. I am willing to bet that most people would not come up with ‘earmuffs’. I guess I am thinking that if you describe it in two or three words then it would not ever enter the readers mind to think to call them something different because they would not have the ‘earmuff’ heuristic.

Not sure if it seems like I am rambling, but the thoughts are coming at me faster than I can type