Right, there comes a point where you have to either move on, or just buy yourself a Klingon costume and go with it.

Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'


The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...  

A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.


Topic!Cindy - Jun 11, 2005 8:30:47 am PDT #2655 of 10001
What is even happening?

Except I'm pretty sure it doesn't need much - and then there's the part of the brain that says, jeez, bitch, you really are in love with yourself, kiss the fuckin' mirror and get over it, it can't possibly be going this smoothly.
I started to give feedback, and it came out all fangurl, and I already sent that, yesterday. *g*

Seriously, I love the pacing in particular. I feel like the main character and I just catch our breath, and then there's something else, which is, of course, what life is like.


sumi - Jun 11, 2005 8:35:28 am PDT #2656 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Lilty -- take one thin spiral with you. Then, you have the perfect excuse to buy exciting European notebooks and/or pens when you run out of space.

You might consider mailing them back home as you use them up. If that's not outrageously expensive.


Amy - Jun 11, 2005 8:45:23 am PDT #2657 of 10001
Because books.

Deb, I'll have comments later -- we had two baseball games this morning, and we're going to my mom's to see my brother in a minute.

Susan, I hadn't seen the RWA alert -- I have to figure out how to sign up for them -- and no one told me the traditional Regencies were getting the boot! (Of course, since I don't actually work there anymore, it's not like they're required to!) Bummer. I love them, and I had some fabulous authors in that program.

Oh, and I have a column up today on Romancing the Blog about geeks, if anyone's interested.


deborah grabien - Jun 11, 2005 8:55:26 am PDT #2658 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Another four pages on chapter 12 done. I should have the finished chapter in an hour or so.

But I remembered I'm supposed to ingest food to stay alive, so breakfast break, is me.


Susan W. - Jun 11, 2005 9:30:03 am PDT #2659 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

no one told me the traditional Regencies were getting the boot! (Of course, since I don't actually work there anymore, it's not like they're required to!) Bummer. I love them, and I had some fabulous authors in that program.

I don't think it's been official-officially announced yet, but I trust the person who passed along the news not to do so unless she thought it was definite and reliably sourced. Avalon and Harlequin/Mills & Boon are going to get DELUGED.

(A note for my critique partner S if she's still lurking--if I were you, I'd get a query and synopsis in the mail to H/M&B Historical NOW. As in, mail it by Monday. Beat the rush. Fivestar too: [link] I'm not sure your heroine is wholesome enough for Avalon, tho'.)


deborah grabien - Jun 11, 2005 10:36:41 am PDT #2660 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Another 2,000 plus words. Chapter 12 finished. A heartbreaker to write, this last bit. I still seem capable of bleeding on his behalf...

Sent to my WIP readers.


Susan W. - Jun 11, 2005 11:10:14 am PDT #2661 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Someone please tell me I'm crazy to be trying to figure out if it'd be possible to have a profitable e-press devoted to traditional Regencies while I'm A) supposed to be getting ready to leave for a week, and B) had decided that I was going to temporarily leave entrepreneurship behind and get some kind of traditional job in the near future so we can buy a house and I can devote my spare time to writing without that guilty feeling that I ought to be seeking out freelance clients.


sumi - Jun 11, 2005 11:16:55 am PDT #2662 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Okay - that's nuts.

Plus -- if the enterprise by itself isn't nuts (I don't know that I can judge that) -- it's certainly something that will keep until well after you get back.


Susan W. - Jun 11, 2005 11:19:20 am PDT #2663 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

True, sumi. Especially because if someone announces tomorrow they're starting a Regency e-press, my reaction wouldn't be, "Damn, they stole my idea!" but, "Huzzah! Someone is doing it!"


Lilty Cash - Jun 11, 2005 11:54:57 am PDT #2664 of 10001
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."

Lilty, I would totally get the pretty notebook. It would be like in the movies -- you know, inspirational music, a montage: me taking out my pen, and pretty notebook, writing, falling asleep on a park bench, with my glasses all crooked, 'cause in my montage, I have glasses.

Bwah! Cindy is my brain.