Justine Larbalestier

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1. Tim Says:

   You will be like the georges perec of y.a., only without the chainsmoking and the supreme weirdness! (this is assuming you don’t chain-smoke . . .)

   November 12th, 2007 at 5:42 PM

2. 2. Justine Says:

   Georges Perec, eh? I likes it.

   And you are correct. I do not chain smoke. I smoke nothing, not chains, not cigarettes, not anything.

   In fact, no YA author smokes so as not to be a bad influence. We take our responsibilities seriously.

   November 12th, 2007 at 5:45 PM

3. kim Says:

   i had to something of that nature when i worte a story of english in jr. high school.
   our teachers wanted us to cut half of our to-be verbs wich are…
   1.is
   2.am
   3.was
   4.were
   5.be
   6.being
   7.been
   in half.so if we had 100 to-be verbs we had to cut it down to roughly to 50.
   the teachers also did not want two sentences right after on another starting with the same word.

   November 12th, 2007 at 6:00 PM

4. 4. Justine Says:

   Do you think it made your story better?

   November 12th, 2007 at 6:07 PM

5. kim Says:

   i think so. it tooka really long time. and know i am going back and rewriting the stories that i wrote in 7th and 8th grade making them more adult sounding and increasing how many words that there are because i had a word limit od i think 3,000 words.
   i rewrote the first paragraph of one of my stories call the missing spot, and it was a page and a half long,

   November 12th, 2007 at 6:43 PM

6. robin Says:

   funny, i feel like i’m writing a good-free book as we speak.

   November 12th, 2007 at 6:55 PM

7. 7. Justine Says:

   See, I thought that’s what I’d done with “good” and “nice” and I was so proud. But then I searched and the dread truth was revealed. So I ruthlessly went through and nuked as many as I could.

   Search your document for “good”. Are there really none? If so. I bow down to you, Robin. You are amazing!

   November 12th, 2007 at 7:01 PM

8. robin Says:

   Oh, the *word* good shows up plenty. It’s just the *quality* of good that I fear might be missing…

   November 12th, 2007 at 7:08 PM

9. 9. Justine Says:

   You was joking. I am such a literal minded fool! Sorry!

   Not that you are capable of writing a good-free book!

   November 12th, 2007 at 7:10 PM

10. ariel cooke Says:

    oh, i don’t mind nice or good. sometimes they’re irreplaceable like “he was a good dog.”

    but when i worked in magazines i got really, really sick of: gutsy (especially when applied to handbags or nail polish), luxe (meaning luxurious or sometimes velvety), glam (short for you know what), moxie (instead of nerve or chutzpah). Then there are the phrases like “’nuff said.” (Choke me now.) It just seems to reduce everything to the same level, whether it’s courage or nail polish.

    November 12th, 2007 at 8:50 PM

11. ariel cooke Says:

    p.s. Justine, I just re-sent you the list of multiculti fantasy novels so do check to see if it got eaten again.

    November 12th, 2007 at 11:10 PM

12. janet Says:

    I have recently become aware of the fact that Beatrix Potter overused the word “dear.” We all have our faults.

    November 13th, 2007 at 12:46 AM

13. liliya Says:

    what’s wrong with the word ‘nice’ anyway? it’s very nice – except when it’s nasty… so how times have you used the words ‘nasty’ and ‘bad’ ?

    November 13th, 2007 at 4:58 AM

14. Gwenda Says:

    My word like this is “still” — this book, at least. It is driving me mad — still!

    November 13th, 2007 at 8:48 AM

15. Delia Says:

    That’s nice, dear. Good for you.

    November 13th, 2007 at 8:35 PM

16. carbonel Says:

    You could always put back in one “nice” -only spell it “nyce” and use it in the Chaucierian sense (the opposite of it’s modern meaning) – that would be fun…

    November 13th, 2007 at 8:39 PM

17. carbonel Says:

    Ack. “it’s” Pthuie.

    November 13th, 2007 at 8:39 PM

18. Lizzy-wa Says:

    hehe. no more ms.nice guy. hehehe.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT!

    November 14th, 2007 at 1:37 AM

19. kim Says:

    yesterday we had to take a ela benchmark test. it took us all day. we had to write an essay, answer questions over 2 stories, do short answer questions, and read stories that we had to find mistakes and fix them.

    it was a long day.

    it took me from 8:30 in the morning, a 30 min break for lunch, and then until 1:00.

    November 15th, 2007 at 7:27 PM

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