Get it right.

[mrissa]

Notes to self:

1) "She put her dark hair in a bun" is very different from "she put a bun in her dark hair." A sticky bun? A cinnamon bun? A rosemary bun? Put her hair in a bun, but leave the bread products out of her hair.

2) It is a very different thing for a character to say, "I do have a life outside the university," than, "I do have a life outside the universe."

Huh. Maybe the latter is the story I should be writing instead.

Comments

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Please write number 2. I love the concept.

[voidmonster.livejournal.com]

I am pretty sure that all the floors outside the universe are lined with newspapers printed before 1900. In case someone poops.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

In John Barth's Giles Goat-Boy the university is the universe.

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

"she put a bun in her dark hair."

*sporfle*

Gonna go put a bun in my mouth now. I hope I don't get confused and put it in my hair!

[zalena.livejournal.com]

Well, it could be Spaceballs.

Americans make more sense than Russians!

[aet.livejournal.com]

... or may be I am just stupid.

A bun inside her bun tells me that the woman has not enough hair to make the hairdo work otherway. Just like in 50-ies and 60-ies women supposedly put metal preserve cans (I suppose empty ones? But may-be a full one would give the wearer the regal step the African women are believed to have due to the habit of carrying stuff on their heads?) under their hair to make those high hairdos.

Well, so your heroine uses a bun instead of a metal can - I guess the result would look so much better.

She should not fall asleep, though, as what if the rodents ...

[seagrit.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, the first phrase made me initially think of someone baking with locks of their hair. Ewww!!! :)

Re: Americans make more sense than Russians!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hee! This is a good rule for life: never sleep with pastry in your hair.