A regular I haven't seen of late
Charles Riggs
Has Patricia Wende left the group, or does she only post on-and-off
these days? Since her helpful posts were my main reason for reading
rasfc in the past, I'd appreciate knowing.
Dorothy J Heydt
I assume you mean Wrede. When she isn't on it's usually because
she has a large chunk of writing to get done, with deadlines
hanging over like vultures. When the pressure eases up she'll be
back.
Dorothy J. Heydt
Albany, California
djh...@kithrup.com
Eric Jarvis
> In article <mhsaj0tbapvprea0l...@4ax.com>,
> Charles Riggs <chr...@eircom.net> wrote:
> >
> >Has Patricia Wende left the group, or does she only post on-and-off
> >these days? Since her helpful posts were my main reason for reading
> >rasfc in the past, I'd appreciate knowing.
>
> I assume you mean Wrede. When she isn't on it's usually because
> she has a large chunk of writing to get done, with deadlines
> hanging over like vultures. When the pressure eases up she'll be
> back.
>
And we'll know that somewhere out there is some more of her excellent
writing for us to enjoy.
--
eric
www.ericjarvis.co.uk
"live fast, die only if strictly necessary"
Marilee J. Layman
wrote:
>Dorothy J Heydt djh...@kithrup.com wrote:
>> In article <mhsaj0tbapvprea0l...@4ax.com>,
>> Charles Riggs <chr...@eircom.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >Has Patricia Wende left the group, or does she only post on-and-off
>> >these days? Since her helpful posts were my main reason for reading
>> >rasfc in the past, I'd appreciate knowing.
>>
>> I assume you mean Wrede. When she isn't on it's usually because
>> she has a large chunk of writing to get done, with deadlines
>> hanging over like vultures. When the pressure eases up she'll be
>> back.
>>
>
>And we'll know that somewhere out there is some more of her excellent
>writing for us to enjoy.
I finished re-reading Sorcery & Cecelia last night, so I can start The
Grand Tour tonight!
(And you know how I don't like fantasy much? I like these fine. Yet
I just read a more SF-ish fantasy -- okay, they probably think it's a
fantasy-like SF -- and I just couldn't buy into it. I was dropping
out of belief over and over.)
--
Marilee J. Layman
G.W. Bush says "results count!"
That's why I'm voting for Kerry.
Eric Jarvis
I have much less patience with badly written fantasy than I have for badly
written sf, at least there's usually something new in even the poorest sf.
Whereas there's a lot of fantasy that seems to me to have nothing going
for it at all. However I don't read for escapism, so I'm not the target
audience for a lot of it.
J.Pascal
> Dorothy J Heydt djh...@kithrup.com wrote:
> > In article <mhsaj0tbapvprea0l...@4ax.com>,
> > Charles Riggs <chr...@eircom.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >Has Patricia Wende left the group, or does she only post on-and-off
> > >these days? Since her helpful posts were my main reason for reading
> > >rasfc in the past, I'd appreciate knowing.
> >
> > I assume you mean Wrede. When she isn't on it's usually because
> > she has a large chunk of writing to get done, with deadlines
> > hanging over like vultures. When the pressure eases up she'll be
> > back.
> >
>
> And we'll know that somewhere out there is some more of her excellent
> writing for us to enjoy.
Does anyone know... did she get the third Star Wars YA novelization?
That ought to be going on about this time. I sure do miss her
when she's gone.
-Julie
Shelly
Me, too. This feels like a really long absence. I hope she's gotten in some
vacation time along with work.
Shelly
http://journals.aol.com/shellys555/CyberChocolate/
http://www.livejournal.com/users/prestoimp/
Shana Rosenfeld
: Eric Jarvis <w...@ericjarvis.co.uk> wrote in message news:<MPG.1ba00737b...@news.individual.net>...
Yes. She was working on the Project Which Cannot Be Discussed when I saw
her in April.
I did ask her if not being able to talk about it made it especially hard,
and she said the first one was, but it is so different from her normal
process that it isn't as difficult now.
--
Shana L. Rosenfeld sh...@westnet.com
David Friedman
shell...@aol.com (Shelly) wrote:
> >Does anyone know... did she get the third Star Wars YA novelization?
> >That ought to be going on about this time. I sure do miss her
> >when she's gone.
>
> Me, too. This feels like a really long absence. I hope she's gotten in some
> vacation time along with work.
I'm told that she is going to be at Worldcon.
Shelly
> shell...@aol.com (Shelly) wrote:
>
>> >Does anyone know... did she get the third Star Wars YA novelization?
>> >That ought to be going on about this time. I sure do miss her
>> >when she's gone.
>>
>> Me, too. This feels like a really long absence. I hope she's gotten in some
>> vacation time along with work.
>
>I'm told that she is going to be at Worldcon.
>
But I won't. :(
Charles Riggs
wrote:
>In article <mhsaj0tbapvprea0l...@4ax.com>,
>Charles Riggs <chr...@eircom.net> wrote:
>>
>>Has Patricia Wende left the group, or does she only post on-and-off
>>these days? Since her helpful posts were my main reason for reading
>>rasfc in the past, I'd appreciate knowing.
>
>I assume you mean Wrede. When she isn't on it's usually because
>she has a large chunk of writing to get done, with deadlines
>hanging over like vultures. When the pressure eases up she'll be
>back.
I'm glad to hear it. Thank you for the information, Dorothy.
Beth Friedman
>Does anyone know... did [Pat Wrede] get the third Star Wars YA novelization?
>That ought to be going on about this time. I sure do miss her
>when she's gone.
Yes, she did. She's in the process of working on that now, along with
at least one other project.
However, she said that she's feeling kind of burnt out on rasfc right
now, so I don't know how much she'll be around, even when the crunch
lets up. But that might change, of course.
Beth Friedman
Uh, no. Lois Bujold will be, but not Pat Wrede. Trust me on this.
David Friedman
Beth Friedman <b...@visi.com> wrote:
That's consistent with the program, unfortunately. Apparently my source
was wrong.
R.L.
> In article <t5efj0h4g05h9ll83...@4ax.com>,
> Beth Friedman <b...@visi.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 22:12:30 -0400, David Friedman
>> <dd...@daviddfriedman.com> wrote:
/snip all/
Any connection between these Friedmans?
R.L.
David Friedman
"R.L." <"<see-sig"@nospams.coms>> wrote:
Not that I know of.
My wife is named Elizabeth, as it happens, but she uses her own last
name.
Helen Hall
wrote:
>On 1 Sep 2004 17:33:32 -0700, ju...@pascal.org (J.Pascal) wrote:
>
>>Does anyone know... did [Pat Wrede] get the third Star Wars YA novelization?
>>That ought to be going on about this time. I sure do miss her
>>when she's gone.
>
>Yes, she did. She's in the process of working on that now, along with
>at least one other project.
Oh, good. I'm glad she's just busy.
>
>However, she said that she's feeling kind of burnt out on rasfc right
>now, so I don't know how much she'll be around, even when the crunch
>lets up. But that might change, of course.
I felt that way for a while. But after a short time during which I had
minimal involvement, I felt I was missing the group. So, after
learning how to master the "split thread" and "Mark not interesting"
commands, I returned feeling able to cope with it without getting
bogged down in interminable off-topic political threads.
Of course Pat always put a lot of effort into her contribution here;
I've never had the time to be anything like so prolific. I wonder if
it's an all or nothing thing with her? I could understand someone
itching to reply to posts, yet feeling that they really can't afford
the time and therefore having to avoid reading the group altogether
because they can't bear to let things go by.
Helen
P.S. This is an experimental post done via the new (to me) laptop and
the newly downloaded Agent. I'm attempting to use it off-line, so if
anything weird happens, I do apologise.
Helen Hall ** Wales ** http://www.baradel.demon.co.uk/
Jacey Bedford
<b...@visi.com> writes
I just had an e-mail from Pat Wrede in response to a query I posted to
the Milford list. I mentioned folks were asking after her here in my
reply to her.
Nice lady, good writer.
Jacey
--
Jacey Bedford
jacey at artisan hyphen harmony dot com
Elizabeth
> I felt that way for a while. But after a short time during which I had
> minimal involvement, I felt I was missing the group. So, after
> learning how to master the "split thread" and "Mark not interesting"
> commands, I returned feeling able to cope with it without getting
> bogged down in interminable off-topic political threads.
I wish I had the ability to split threads. I content myself with
sampling occasional messages from the long ones to see if they've
morphed into something interesting.
Elizabeth
Marilee J. Layman
wrote:
>
>Has Patricia Wende left the group
I emailed Wildepad because he hasn't been posting, and he hasn't
answered, but the mail didn't bounce, either. Anybody know more?
R.L.
> Helen Hall <mh...@baradel.demon.co.uk.please.delete.this> wrote in message news:<c7kgj01oa089qq0ug...@4ax.com>...
>
>> I felt that way for a while. But after a short time during which I had
>> minimal involvement, I felt I was missing the group. So, after
>> learning how to master the "split thread" and "Mark not interesting"
>> commands, I returned feeling able to cope with it without getting
>> bogged down in interminable off-topic political threads.
>
> I wish I had the ability to split threads.
What does that mean? I'm trying 40tude which does sort of wrap the tree,
instead of everything piling up at the right edge of the screen.
> I content myself with
> sampling occasional messages from the long ones to see if they've
> morphed into something interesting.
Me too.
R.L.
Beth Friedman
wrote:
Not that I know of. It's not all that uncommon a name.
Helen Hall
wrote:
It's available in Turnpike, which I use on the desktop machine. I
don't know whether Agent has it though. A quick browse through the
menus didn't reveal such a facility. On the other hand, Agent's
threading is easier to follow than Turnpike's, so it's easier to dip
in and out.
Helen
--
Helen Hall
wrote:
>On 3 Sep 2004 21:09:34 -0700, Elizabeth wrote:
>
>> Helen Hall <mh...@baradel.demon.co.uk.please.delete.this> wrote in message news:<c7kgj01oa089qq0ug...@4ax.com>...
>>
>>> So, after
>>> learning how to master the "split thread" and "Mark not interesting"
>>> commands, I returned feeling able to cope with it without getting
>>> bogged down in interminable off-topic political threads.
>>
>> I wish I had the ability to split threads.
>
>What does that mean? I'm trying 40tude which does sort of wrap the tree,
>instead of everything piling up at the right edge of the screen.
>
It's a feature of the Turnpike newsreader, which despite having used
Turnpike for years, I wasn't aware of until Del mentioned it one time.
It does exactly what the name suggests. If you have a long thread and
you only want to follow certain parts of it, you can split these off
into separate threads so that you can kill the parts you don't want to
read without affecting the strands that you *do* want to follow.
Helen
--
Jacey Bedford
<mh...@baradel.demon.co.uk.please.delete.this> writes
off-list, please.
Artisan(at)artisan-harmony.com.
I'd be very grateful
Cheers
Marilee J. Layman
<mjla...@erols.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 07:55:31 +0100, Charles Riggs <chr...@eircom.net>
>wrote:
>
>>
>>Has Patricia Wende left the group
>
>I emailed Wildepad because he hasn't been posting, and he hasn't
>answered, but the mail didn't bounce, either. Anybody know more?
I received an answer today from someone claiming to be his cousin
Jill, but who writes just like him. He's being misanthropic right
now, but will be back to his usual self in a few weeks.
Julia Jones
<mh...@baradel.demon.co.uk.please.delete.this> writes
Lovely feature, and one I don't use that often but am occasionally
extremely glad to have available.
For other Turnpike users not aware of it - it's at the bottom of the
Article menu, as Break Thread and Rejoin Thread. It's also about halfway
down the context sensitive menu you get if you right-click on an
article.
There is also an undocumented Scoring facility that goes beyond the
simple Mark As Interesting/Uninteresting. I've never used it, but others
say it can be very helpful. One person's reference file here:
http://www.thor2ru.demon.co.uk/demnlib/index.html
--
Julia Jones
"We are English of Borg. Your language will be assimilated."