Bark, (Em)Bark, (Disem)Bark

[snurri]

Lots of writers talk about how difficult it can be just to get a character across a room.

Nobody talks about how hard it is to get one on a fucking boat.

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Do they get confused about whether they've frequently not been on boats or whether what they've frequently been is not-on-boats?

[sarah-prineas.livejournal.com]

"And then, she got on the boat."

Come on, puppetmaster! Make those critters dance!!

[rnb.livejournal.com]

This is why I write screenplays. ez $$

[barthanderson.livejournal.com]

Shang hai? I vote for a speedy shang hai.

[jonhansen.livejournal.com]

I prefer the "pass out in a bar, wake up somewhere in the Atlantic on a ship of the line" approach.

[gregvaneekhout.livejournal.com]

My characters did a lot of leaping, climbing, crawling, scrambling, and shambling over gunwales.

I'm telling ya

[barthanderson.livejournal.com]

She wants on, she doesn't want on. Works either way. Pillow case over the head, toss her in a wheel barrow, baddabing, no more dialog!

*dusts hands*

[ninja-pencil.livejournal.com]

You just did it, with no less than poetic simplicity!

"He gets on the fucking boat."