Community Information and Stationery Armoury

Observation of the day: Fashioning a chain from paperclips is an essential skill, and should be taught in schools in case it's ever essential to find an escape route from invading zombies using only stationery. This is plain and simple fact.

On the other hand, making chainmail from paperclips is recommended in exactly the same way as using a mouse as a planishing stake, or corrugated cardboard and staples as substitutes for plate lamés and rivets: ie, not. It's certainly possible, but the time and effort mean that by the time you had cardboard tassets or paperclip haubergeon, you'd have been eaten.

On the plus side, I now have a small piece of 4-to-1 paperclipmail where previously I had thirty fifty-two sixty-six paperclips of expired usefulness, which is probably proof against papercuts or something. Yay. Mercifully, the paperclip box is empty now.



And now for something far more useful: community info! In bold, so that it's easy to see.

I've been starting to kind of plot out the finished community info for critique_club, which (so far) mostly means making some notes and a couple of lists. In the interests of getting things right fairly quickly, what kind of things do you consider useful when someone comments on writing?

I'm especially interested in what those of you who write things other than prose fiction have to say, but I'll field suggestions from everyone.



Also, because I've just thought of it, I still need a tag for when I post ridiculous and/or nonsensical things. So!
[Poll #1087213]

Bring your own joke.

There's a quartet of bees ambling around in my bathtub making what looks to be a fairly intense search, like some kind of weird blend of apiary and CSI.

"Hey, we got some trace over here."
"It looks like some kind of soap."
"There's a faint circle patterning to it. Bubbles, maybe?"
"If there were bubbles, it looks like something must've burst our victim's."
[SOMETHING BY THE WHO]

(...this may be the only time ever that I've wondered if a pun is suitably horrid.)

But, yes. Bees. In my bathtub. Apparently, it actually is more likely than you think.