Everything I need to know I learned...

[girlwithjournal]

Lessons I learned from writing the Maybe-a-Novel yesterday:

1. Never pass up an opportunity to use the verb "to probe."

2. I'm thinking of opossums. But pangolins are cuter.

3. girlwithjournal: Writing scenes with lots of characters and lots of dialogue is hard. You run out of ways to attribute quotes

Comments

[darcydodo]

But pangolins are cuter.

Duuuude. Oh my fucking god. That's insane. And also really, really cute, I totally agree. It's like a pinecone! Aww!!!

And it's called The Chambers of the Sea.

So I take it this is a different novel from the one I've read parts of? :)

[girlwithjournal]

Yes, it's different. But related. Kinda.

Do you want me to get you a pangolin for Christmas?

[darcydodo]

Do you want me to get you a pangolin for Christmas?

Totally. It could stop any ant infestations, for a start!

[sonofzeal]

Heh. Reminds me of a project Peck was working on. Two of the characters were talking about sex, and he used "ejaculated" instead of "said" when one of them said something suddenly. If you listen closely, you could almost hear the rimshot in the distance.

[girlwithjournal]

I could do bad things with the word rimshot. Very, very bad things.

[ciara32]

I confess that I had never heard of a "pangolin" before. But they are cute!

[taurendur]

are you aware of the Tom Swifty joke format? If so, my favorite has always been:

"I'm coming" Tom ejaculated