We don’t get nearly as many comments at NSF as the Dog and I would like. And too many of the ones we do get turn out to be spam. But once in a while. . .
Shawnee posted this yesterday and I would like to talk about it.
From Shawnee – Made in reply to the Post below:
____ “I want to know what happened when you went to town,,,I am wondering if the strange going ons have any-thing to do with the face in the fire,,,the footprints were like how narrow…..? I am wondering if it was your guardian angel calling you out of the house,,,maybe when you get home, the three bears will be sleeping in your bed. I need to know what is going on with the date on the computer,,,,I also need to know how I get involved in writing in this thing,,,I cannot do anything to do with scientific stuff or scifi, as I do not particularly like it. I also am not the best speller in the world, but my medicated imagination is incrdible. you know the abmomible (can/t spell) snowman leaves no photographicable foot prints, and they say his feet are long and narrow, like skis”, I am sure if you could find Scott he could tell you what was going on, as he has allowed beagles to pull him all over that area. I think that is probably what it is…it also could be looking for a safe place to hang out, as they know that if you see any kinda bear like thing, you will give them a cheese sandwhich, and grab your camera, I think they are related to the Big-foot and bear family, and you know they do coomunicate.”
____ “Any-way I am waiting to read what is going on in town…..It could have something to do with the face in the fire,,someone said it looked like teddy roosevelt didn’t he have something to do with a bear? love ya shawnee.”
Now that is just the kind of comment that I wish would come in often. Most are probably wondering — “What the hell was that all about?” What shawnee is doing is to adding together a couple of the short stories over at the FutureVerse — Something Happened, and Baiting Bigfoot, with a couple of post I made here, one about seeing a bear from my window and the other about a Face in the Fire. Then she ran it all together as if it made sense. That’s pretty much how I do all of my writing. Those short stories are both very shot (Updated later: Yeah I meant to say short, they are both less than 500 words, but then who knows?) so should you wish you can read them quickly and see what she is getting at.
And for those of us who ‘spell pourly,’ one can type a comment off line, do your type checking and paste it in the comment block. Doesn’t work for me, I still need to go back and edit but it might for you. A much better solution is to have a comment preview function that lets you look again before you post.
Our current template has nothing like that but I went out and found a couple of WordPress plugins that just might do the trick. I won’t do an install until the Old Dog backs up the MSQL database on the chance that something goes really wrong but look for the feature in a few days. Or at least a report on why it didn’t work.
Thanks for the comments shawnee, I am going to use one of your lines in the last chapter of Never So Few. It’s already written into the version of our final draft I am sending the Dog later. I won’t tell you what it is in advance so you are going to have to read the ending to find out. I would fire anyone who proof checked as poorly as I do. —Wes
Posted: June 24th, 2009 under Off Target.
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