If I'm reading that right, deb, your editor trusts us (an Imperial-ish us) to tell you what works? That's very flattering.
I don't fancy spending the next month trying to get librarian out of the carpet.
Spike ,'Chosen'
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.
Connie Neil - Jun 13, 2005 8:06:00 am PDT #2693 of 10001
brillig
Steph L. - Jun 13, 2005 8:06:40 am PDT #2694 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I might recommend getting a couple of your first readers to give you feedback if you finish it before I get that far and then getting me a manuscript incorporating any revisions inspired by their comments to assess for marketing....
Heh. Heh heh heh.
deborah grabien - Jun 13, 2005 8:28:45 am PDT #2695 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
connie, yep - but the core of that is that she trusts me to be able to weigh the feedback and use what I need. Also, to pick WIP readers in the first place. (edit: and not my editor - this is my agent, Jennifer Jackson at DMLA)
What's hilarious is the suggestion that I get feedback. muHA!
What I wrote back, in part:
I've had 32 WIP readers on this one, and they've been getting chapters as I write them. I've been going back and assessing and incorporating as I receive feedback. The feedback on this has been a steady constant stream, with - scarily - virtually no disagreement between the WIP readers.
Once this one's done, I think it'll be close to ready to ship. And I've already got a synopsis.
I know, I know. Ruth's complaint: I write too fast.
erikaj - Jun 13, 2005 9:52:40 am PDT #2696 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I can't believe I have two new projects and neither one really has a plot yet...I really thought I was getting better at this.
Connie Neil - Jun 13, 2005 9:55:19 am PDT #2697 of 10001
brillig
erika, did the books get there?
Pix - Jun 13, 2005 10:15:16 am PDT #2698 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I know I've been away a bit, but I love this drabble topic. It spoke to me.
The Air We Breathe Drabble
The air is heavy with scent. Seaweed and salt and rugosa rosa twine like jellyfish tentacles, a gentle undulation of water brushing earth brushing water. It is thick and wet on my skin, a warm coating of ocean and sand. I breathe it in: the Atlantic, McCook’s Beach, crabs tempted from under tide pool rocks with bits of snails. The way the moon skips like a rock across the waves. My first kiss. The summer I turned sixteen; the winter I turned thirty.
Even on another ocean, the air I breathe is haunted by the pinks and blues of memory.
erikaj - Jun 13, 2005 10:24:22 am PDT #2699 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Not yet...probably this afternoon, though.Maybe they will help. Either because I say "Yeah...I could do it like that." or "No way! Is this guy on the pipe?" Either way, it might focus my approach.
Connie Neil - Jun 13, 2005 10:26:13 am PDT #2700 of 10001
brillig
It's always fun to call the authors of books idiots.
Connie Neil - Jun 13, 2005 10:28:43 am PDT #2701 of 10001
brillig
Is there a mailroom or something in your complex, erika? The USPS site says the package was delivered at noon on Saturday.
deborah grabien - Jun 13, 2005 10:28:54 am PDT #2702 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Kristin, lovely. Water brushing earth brushing water.
Deep into the second half of chapter 13. The roller coaster analogy was used for it by a few WIP readers, but I feel more like the driver of a curricle, with a pair of restless, very strong thoroughbreds harnessed up: I'm trying to rein them in and they want to gallop. Not good for the pacing.
Of course, if I do just let it rip, it'll take some breath away, I think.