Comments on: Tourists http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2010/02/17/tourists/ over 5 billion neurons served Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:58:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Sean Craven http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2010/02/17/tourists/comment-page-1/#comment-149806 Sean Craven Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:46:00 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2010/02/17/tourists/#comment-149806 Oh, and I may not be rich, but I was able to get an eye examination and three new pairs of glasses -- bifocals, reading glasses, and computer glasses. Now I can see because I told lies about my grandmother's death. What could be better? Oh, and I may not be rich, but I was able to get an eye examination and three new pairs of glasses — bifocals, reading glasses, and computer glasses.

Now I can see because I told lies about my grandmother’s death. What could be better?

]]> By: Sean Craven http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2010/02/17/tourists/comment-page-1/#comment-149804 Sean Craven Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:43:58 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2010/02/17/tourists/#comment-149804 Thanks, Rory! Heh. I'm revising a film script now, with an eye toward using it as the basis of the next novel. I was stuck at the ending, and decided to sleep on it. I woke up at two in the morning. "Aha! Given everything I've got in place there's only one natural outcome -- radio-controlled zombies operated by alien dinosaurs." I wish all stories could end like that. Thanks, Rory!

Heh. I’m revising a film script now, with an eye toward using it as the basis of the next novel. I was stuck at the ending, and decided to sleep on it.

I woke up at two in the morning. “Aha! Given everything I’ve got in place there’s only one natural outcome — radio-controlled zombies operated by alien dinosaurs.”

I wish all stories could end like that.

]]> By: Rory http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2010/02/17/tourists/comment-page-1/#comment-144678 Rory Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:30:54 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2010/02/17/tourists/#comment-144678 Congratulations, Sean! Now you're rich!! Just like all the rest of us professionally-published writers. I really liked the story -- Very nicely dark and fucked-up. I predict that you have a wonderful career ahead of you, if this is a sample. For God's sake, this story even has a zombie in it. ...Sort of... Congratulations, Sean! Now you’re rich!! Just like all the rest of us professionally-published writers.

I really liked the story — Very nicely dark and fucked-up.

I predict that you have a wonderful career ahead of you, if this is a sample. For God’s sake, this story even has a zombie in it. …Sort of…

]]> By: Sean Craven http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2010/02/17/tourists/comment-page-1/#comment-134948 Sean Craven Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:56:13 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2010/02/17/tourists/#comment-134948 You know what's funny? I pretty much figured this was swamp gas until I got the check. One of my VP buddies flat-out told me that everyone knew this was going to happen before I did. Oh, and Morgan? Thanks. You were a real source of stability for me at VP. You know what’s funny? I pretty much figured this was swamp gas until I got the check. One of my VP buddies flat-out told me that everyone knew this was going to happen before I did.

Oh, and Morgan? Thanks. You were a real source of stability for me at VP.

]]> By: Morgan J. Locke http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2010/02/17/tourists/comment-page-1/#comment-134807 Morgan J. Locke Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:47:14 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2010/02/17/tourists/#comment-134807 Whoop! Grats, Sean. This is very good news. Whoop! Grats, Sean. This is very good news.

]]> By: Sean Craven http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2010/02/17/tourists/comment-page-1/#comment-134382 Sean Craven Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:38:36 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2010/02/17/tourists/#comment-134382 Hey, Steve -- thank you very kindly for the plug. I'd never have sent this out to a pro market because an earlier, much rougher version had been printed in a small press literary magazine, Monday Night. I may have mentioned this to you, but your post here at EOB was the reason I applied to Viable Paradise. So in an odd, roundabout way you're responsible for this story's professional publication. Heh. Maybe this should be the way you push Viable Paradise -- it's the writer's workshop that pays for itself. Hey, Steve — thank you very kindly for the plug.

I’d never have sent this out to a pro market because an earlier, much rougher version had been printed in a small press literary magazine, Monday Night.

I may have mentioned this to you, but your post here at EOB was the reason I applied to Viable Paradise. So in an odd, roundabout way you’re responsible for this story’s professional publication.

Heh. Maybe this should be the way you push Viable Paradise — it’s the writer’s workshop that pays for itself.

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