Dear Roy

[cornerofmadness]

While I know it is meant as a gift, could you please refrain from leaving big fat field mice on my door step. I do admire your restraint in oh, not gutting it there but still. Your thoughtful gift is now over in the ditch. Please leave it there, thanks.




And bah, ever feel like you're never going to get the hang of the writing gig? That's about where I am now. I put in description and it never seems right. I leave it out and get told I need it. I've yet to find that happy medium. Still working on editing back through Machiavelli Moon but after so many rejections it's hard going

Comments

[chaos-by-design.livejournal.com]

Well, at least you know your cat can kill things. Lupin can't kill jack shit, and therefore he is truly useless and good only for petting.

I love Lupin, but I really want a cat who can kill things.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Roy isn't much of a killer but since he's the only cat left around here it had to be him

[marlex.livejournal.com]

My cat managed to bring one inside a few weeks ago. And I find the odd squirrel around the yard.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i had one who like bring the inside live and her favorite prey was baby bunnies.

perfect icon

[marlex.livejournal.com]

Yikes. I had a cat who got a rabbit once. From the way mom described it, the rabbit wasn't a baby.

[ishte.livejournal.com]

ZOMG! this is just one of the most wonderful icons I think I have ever seen! It's totally YAY!

[ishte.livejournal.com]

You didn't let him SEE you put his thoughtful gift in the ditch, right? hee... He is definitely acknowledging you as his pride leader though. He's hunting for you and bringing you food. That he didn't even NIBBLE on it first.

Kiku (an old cat of mine) often hunted mice for me, and would set them gently on the very foot of my bed. ONe time She was on the foot of my bed and seemed to be trying to bury something... and I was like .uh oh.. did she have some kind of bizarre accident and now she's trying to hide it? The answer was no... she had put a gift mouse there, and Tammy's cat (my roommate at the time) Muffy had come into my room later and eaten all but one hind leg of it... Kiku was so mortified that she was trying to hide it.

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

Some readers (editors) like description and some don't. You just either have to write plot and character so well that the description-lovers don't miss the description, or write description so well that the description-haters don't notice it enough to hate it. See? Writing is easy! (It helps if you're a super genius with perfect turns of phrase just falling out your ass, of course. I don't know anyone like that, and if I met one, I'd probably try to slit his/her throat out of pure jealousy.)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

snort, yes that does make it sound so easy. I think it helps if you DONT have to read pure shit for review and are sitting there thinking how the hell is this on the shelf when everyone in my group is getting nothing but rejections and all of them are better than this

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

sadly he was gone all day yesterday (that's what i hate MOST about him insisting on going outside, when he wanders off) so no

and just EWWW to the mouse on the bed. Rainbow, my first cat used to bring them in live

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Rainbow would bring back big ones too but the baby bunny was her fave.

love that icon. Who is that

[mulzrule.livejournal.com]

Heh, must be hunting season. Dreamer proudly presented me with a headless mouse on our back porch yesterday. I guess that's better then the dead squirrel getting dumped in the living room.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

true

[marlex.livejournal.com]

I think it's an original piece. Not really sure. The original image (http://pics.livejournal.com/marlex/pic/00021rsw) has been on my computer for a couple of years. When I was making icons when I first joined lj, I shrank it down.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it's adorable

[marlex.livejournal.com]

Yeah... one of my favorites. Here's another nice one (http://pics.livejournal.com/marlex/pic/000227rd) I found while looking for it.

[marlex.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I made it off a photo I downloaded a couple of years ago... don't remember where. Oddly enough, I saw someone else one time using the same photo for their icon, with a slightly different crop.

[kashicat.livejournal.com]

>> I think it helps if you DONT have to read pure shit for review and are sitting there thinking how the hell is this on the shelf when everyone in my group is getting nothing but rejections and all of them are better than this <<

I have so many friends in that situation, myself. How can dreck sell, and quality and talent languish?

We've actually almost decided we need to get together and publish our own stuff as a collective.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

wouldn't be a bad idea. Seriously I'm active in three writers groups and every single one of them without fail is better than some of the stuff I've plucked off library shelves

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

snort.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

also nice