A Random Thought

I have no idea:

How much money it would take to hire Andrea Libman, a jazz orchestra, and a recording studio, but at random intervals all this past year, my brain coughs up the idea that the world in general really needs to hear Fluttershy singing this arrangement of this song.

Mike

Comments

[Posted]

Probably a lot less than you would think. The trick would be avoiding contract issues.

[TheAlmightySage]

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Agreed.

[toafan]

You have... a very interesting formating structure. What's up with that?

[AugieDog]

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I've thought about this:

Way too much the past 10 months or so. Because one of the guys who accompanies me when I play guitar and sing at my church is heavily involved in the local music scene--he plays piano regularly on Main Street at Disneyland and is involved in the music department at the community college up the hill. So he would know the answers to most of my questions, I figure--what musicians to hire and how to hire them, where to find a recording studio around here, whether charts for this arrangement exist or if we'd hafta put 'em together ourselves, the rights issues involved with making a recording of the song, all that. Then it'd be a matter of contacting Ms. Libman's agent, finding out her rates and her schedule. SImple as pie, as it were.

But then I come to the question of my own time to pursue this--having four part-time jobs tends to eat up a fair portion of the day, I've discovered the past 20 years--and the need for a pot of gold to drop from the sky to pay for it all. And I decide to leave it on the back burner for another week or two.

Mike

[AugieDog]

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Do you mean:

In the stories themselves? 'Cause I just copy-n-paste out of Word--when I started writing with an eye toward selling my stuff to the SF magazines back in the mid 1980s, their rules stated that stories had to be submitted in Courier New 12 point, double spaced with a single five-space indent at the beginning of each paragraph and a single "carriage return" at the end. So I still write in that same format with a few bits of the ol' square bracket BB Code thrown in to do the italics and center the little stars that mark the section divisions, and FiMFiction takes it quite nicely. I quite like how it ends looking up on the screen here, actually.

Of course, I use Comic Sans for the dialogue in my daily web comic, so my taste in just about ev'rything is definitely suspect...

Mike

[toafan]

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I was talking about how you start a sentence -- unindented --

And then follow it with a colon and continue it in a properly*-indented paragraph immediately afterwards. Do you maybe not notice you do that, or something?

Although, the way you phrased your question made me realize that I haven't actually read any of your stories yet. This... is decidedly non-ideal.
If you make your paragraphs distinct (you do) and you aren't trying to do anything too tricky with the fonts (sounds like you aren't), then you should be fine on that front.

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* I'm not sure what proper indentation is on the web, actually. The HTML specs don't specify anything about indentation. Some interpretations I've seen read that as "Paragraphs should not be indented, they should be separated with blank lines in-between them." Then there's folks who do indent their paragraphs. I guess there's nothing wrong with that, and it can make sense for fics. I'm just not sure if it's correct.

[AugieDog]

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Ah. Yes. This:

I started doing it as a parody of proper business letter writing technique, actually. In school they taught us to start the letter with the salutation flush against the left margin and follow the salutation with a colon. Then a double space, an indent, and you begin the body of the letter.

Of course, on an internet bulletin board, you never know who you're really writing to, so I dropped the whole salutation part and just put the first few words of my post flush against the edge, then put the colon, then the double space and the five character indent before continuing on with the rest of the sentence.

Also, breaking up the first sentence in a semi-random way simulates the slight stutter I have in real life.

Mike