A few days ago, I sent an e-mail to Clare Williams and Victoria Fielding. In it I asked, ‘Have you read Daphne’s brilliant comment on Adrian’s latest Q?
‘Possibly the 2nd best comment that I’ve ever seen on Q&As.’
Clare fell for the bait almost immediately: ‘If that was the second best, what was the #1?’ Victoria hasn’t yet asked the question: I assume that she’s been too busy scraping porridge and jam out of her (and her family’s) hair.
Alright, here are MY favourite 2 comments of ALL TIME on Q&As.
#2 https://www.writersandartists.co.uk/question/view/2823 Q: ‘Are you a pantser, or did you plan your novel?’
Daphne Milne’s A: ‘I had a plan for a three volume novel. It had a plot, several sub plots, various characters, and ramifications all the way to Timbuctoo. It ended up as a 16 line poem. I read it a lot at literary festivals, it always gets a laugh.’
Please visit that page and give her a few more thumbs up: she well deserves them!
p.s. The poem is GOOD, too!
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I’ve just run several Internet searches, using variations in phrasing the Q, in order to trawl up #1, but I either get thousands of results… or just 2 or 4, none of which is the original. However, in my own Q of some years back, ‘Can we ask Kate Baxter to bring out a book of her one- and two-liner comments on Q&A here?’ (https://www.writersandartists.co.uk/question/view/2173), I [evidently] paraphrased the question thus:
Q: What do you say when people ask you what you're writing at the moment?
Kate took one reply box to A: ‘Words.’ (A pretty good reply, you must admit.) Then she took another box for a reply about which the Germans would so expressively say, “Das ist der HAMMER!”
A: ‘On a good day, sentences.’
Where are you now, Kate? I miss you terribly!
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Soooooooooooooooo… what is/are YOUR favourite comments on Q&As? (Please give Q AND A – and URL, if possible.)
Followed by 'There's Jelly in My Pocket But I Think I Kinda Like It.'
Well this has definitely become my new favourite Q&a thread!
@ Victoria, I'll write an ice-pop in my shoe if you agree to write the sequel - a cracker in my pants!
@ Emilie, I like to march to the beat of my own drum, making rules up as I go along and flagrantly flouting the etiquette of question answering
@ Jummy, I've already declared my love for you elsewhere on this site, I appreciate you finally reciprocating :)
I'm flattened, er, flattered, Clare! But, actually, '2021[...]' is on shared works and not on Q&As.