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.)
I can't do any technical URL wizardry, but Emilie's recent request to be removed from our 'clique' made me laugh. There are too many other good comments to choose from. Emilie's response to my post on 2021 a spaced odyssey pointing out that I had actually declared my love for the author (due to my atrocious grammar - which you are too well aware of, Jummy) is also one of my faves :)
For VOCATIONAL reasons, Victoria Fielding's comments about food smeared in hair: they inspired my first picture book for children!
https://www.writersandartists.co.uk/question/view/2820 (On Adrian Sroka's [meant-to-be rhetorical - or perhaps 'Master Class'] question re: political correctness.)