Comments on: New WotF blog post coming soon

By: jordan

jordan — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:36:45 +0000

Corbin,

Sorry about the lateness of my response–I didn’t see this message right away (it got buried in my e-mail box).

Thank you for your praise! I’m glad the story connected for you. I am definitely looking forward to reading you in a future antho. Congrats on your recent HM by the way!

By: Corbin Maxwell

Corbin Maxwell — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:26:12 +0000

Hey JordAn,

Don’t know if this is the right place for it or not, but wanted to say that I bought WOTF XXV and your story was the first I read. I really liked it. It was a good story.

Not that my opinion means that much, but generally I don’t like the way most people write. I read mostly classic literarture, stuff like Hemingway and Dickens and Fitzgerald and Cormac McCarthy (you get the idea) so of course I love the language of those writers and it’s hard for me to read main stream stuff. So most of the stories I’ve read in WOTF anthologies don’t do much for me. But yours was really good. I definetely think you have a future in writing (well of course you know that). And I’m not just saying this to kiss up to a winner.

And of course I hope to be there someday myself. There has to come a time when a WOTF entrant moves up from HM. I now have six. First one was the old quarter-finalist, so I have five HM certs hanging on my wall.

By: jordan

jordan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:54:29 +0000

Lol. Or perhaps, “Whatever happened to Jordan Lapp?”

By: K.C.

K.C. — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:52:48 +0000

Oso — “We don’t need no stinking badges” IS the exact wording of a famous movie quote. It’s just that it’s from Blazing Saddles (the great Slim Pickens offered up the line), not from The Treasure of the Sierre Madre (which featured a longer, different rendition).

Here’s my prediction for a mis-remembered quote that will grow larger with the telling: “I know Jordan Lapp. And you’re no Jordan Lapp.

By: Oso

Oso — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:14:23 +0000

So many famous quotes are like that, mis-remembered to the point of growing larger on their own. “Beam me up, Scotty.” “We don’t need no stinking badges.” “Play it again, Sam.” “Luke, I am your father.” None of them ever happened…in so many words.

By: jordan

jordan — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:10:57 +0000

Corbin, Shyte you’re right! Good catch. lol. I’m I arrogant, or what? I actually think my version is better….

By: Corbin Maxwell

Corbin Maxwell — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:48:04 +0000

Jordan, I read your interview. Very nice. Just one thing, and please don’t hold it against me because it might not have been your fault. But the opening line in The Gunslinger is: The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

Not pursued.

As busy as you’ve been though, it must be hard to keep everything straight.

Anyway, like I said, nice interview. You’ve got a lot of good advice, knowledge. Someone to aspire to.

By: jordan

jordan — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:01:39 +0000

That one took too long to write, so I referred it to a blog a thousand times as large as this one. Scalzi should be getting back to you soon

By: Oso

Oso — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:51:56 +0000

You lost the post with the answer to the question of life, the universe, and everything? Oh no.

But what about the post with the question?