Tell an Ish person to show up around 9 a.m., and you'll see them somewhere around 9 a.m. Tell them to show up at 9ish, and you'll see them anywhere from 9:05 to 9:20. You have given them license to dilly dally, and who wouldn't take advantage of that? The other night at the big shindig dinner party, one of the drummers said the rehearsal the next morning would begin at 9ish. "I am an ish person," he says. Immediately the clanker goes off in my head--oh, good, I thought. I can deliver my daughter a little late. No Ish person is early, so if you say 9ish, that does not mean give or take 5, 10, 15 minutes. It's exclusively a taking phrase. Take an extra 10 minutes to drink your cup of coffee. We won't mind. We're Ish people. Sunday's rehearsal started at 2:00. Because it was conducted by the same people who conducted the Saturday rehearsal, my understanding was 2-ISH. My daughter is worse than I am about taking liberties with Ish time frames, so she d...
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Well, I gave your chapter a 10 and wrote nice things about it.
you're a 10 robyn.
Ah, Old K's a real sweetie isn't he? Love that cute little turn of phrase he has, too. Ahhh...
Ten stars. No messing.
Old Knusdon, you're a dear. Thank you as well, and I'm sorry I couldn't include anything spicy there for you. It's one of 21 chapters, and there isn't a single spicy treat in the whole stinking thing.
Lynn, at gather.com there should be a spot in the upper right hand corner to sign up (free). My plan was to read your novel after I finished obsessing over my own, so I'll get right to it. Thanks for the compliment about mine. Sorry to pull the story before you were finished. I can send it to you if you really want it.
Thank you for your thank you. It was my pleasure.
Hey, my Maryanne link still works but it only gives the first two chapters (which is when I set it up).
So when the competition's over and you're grinning like a fool at your prize, re-establishing the full link would be nice.
In the meantime, for anyone who hasn't printed off all 21 chapters like Rich has, the second chapter is still available on my sidebar.
I'm just reviewing a book at the moment Robyn but as soon as i've finished that, i'll ask for your novel please yes.
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You know what I think from our emails, so it's a very carefully considered ten!
He did have a point about having Brittany at the table when Jean says bad things about the kid's father, though.
Maryann can't show her full character until she reacts to circumstance, and the circumstances she has to react to have yet to happen (or at least have yet to be revealed) in chapter one.
If you developed her fully in chapter one, there'd be nothing left to write about.
And as for Jean; friends and neighbours are like that. They're not perfect. It's real life.
His point about Brit at the table might be valid in NeverNeverLand, but real people say dumb things in front of kids sometimes.
Your characters are very well developed, and very real world.
He's a dork.
:)