Epic multi-quote incoming...
Evening all. I've been lurking awhiles, checking out the Cantina crowd (Cylons in the far corner, I'm watching you) and now I think I'll pull up a bar stool and ask for a shot of that Ol' Janx Spirit (leave the bottle, barkeep, leave the bottle).
Welcome to the Cantina. Watch out for the Kraken - and try not to step on any smibbles.
Another Scottish person, huh? I don't know whether to flee or make myself comfortable.
As long as they bring good single malt, I'm fine with more Scots.
It is almost as if the sum knowledge of Scotland has been gained from watching films and reading TV Tropes (don't make me linky)...
Oddly enough, I've found that withholding tickets to comic conventions works just as well.
Which isn't limited to getting children to cooperate...
*eyes tickets for Angoulême jealously*
I'm not Scottish. I'm from God's own country psychiatric ward, Northern Ireland.
Ah, poetry is being mentioned! *runs and hides as flashbacks of GCSE English begin*
Make it stop... *hugs teddy bear* Make it stop...
Would it be less painful if it was Ogden Nash poems being dropped into the thread?
So while I'm waiting for the vet to return I'm chatting to Blueberry and I just happen to notice his feathers aren't sitting right and too much skin is showing and his birdie finger looks too big for his size.
His fingers on that side are much fatter than the other side and it doesnt seem like a normal swelling
Now I'm worried he has cancer rather than a freak injury. I'm going to see how it looks tomorrow and find another vet.
Could it merely be a skin infection of some kind? I know that rashes of various kinds are a problem in some birds (parakeets, for one), and it can be hard to tell from a visual inspection what is going on. Hopefully it is something minor.
I'd rather have something worse... like a haunted leg. At least a haunted leg deserves being frustrated and losing sleep over.
You are trying to get me to make a Tarot reference, aren't you?
*refuses to rise to the bait*
Star Trek: TNG, Farscape, or Babylon 5? Hmm...
B5, then Lexx, then Farscape... Save TNG for when it is raining outside.
Well maybe I officially belong in here since I'm writing the sequel to my supposed SF series.
Supposed? *is intrigued*
But it's awesome having a publisher as a serious, intense writing buddy. And his ideas are so accurate and dead on that I fear I wouldn't or couldn't do this without him.
While it is great that you are getting encouragement, remember that it is your book, and you are the one whose name is going to be on the book - I always have trouble when I'm meant to be gushing over publishers. The people matter, the name of the publisher on the spine... I don't really get as excited as I should. Good luck with the book.
You know what is depressing? When you have a story idea -- not just an idea, but a BRILLIANT idea, one that you'd pay lots of money to read, one that you know would be a bestseller and the making of your career -- and you already know you can't pull it off.
Write it.
You are gonna get The Speech as well.
Seriously.