“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
Willow: Were there dolphins? Tara: Yes. Many dolphins at the pound. Willow: Was there a camel? Tara: There was the front of a camel. A half-camel.
'Selfless'
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.
Ginger - Mar 10, 2005 9:28:44 am PST #483 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
deborah grabien - Mar 11, 2005 2:47:48 pm PST #484 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Man, it's quiet in here.
Quick, someone write something.
Amy - Mar 11, 2005 4:12:24 pm PST #485 of 10001
Because books.
There once was a man from Nantucket...
Ginger - Mar 11, 2005 4:18:14 pm PST #486 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
... who kept all his cash in a bucket.
SailAweigh - Mar 11, 2005 4:21:40 pm PST #487 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Spoilsport.
Amy - Mar 11, 2005 4:30:00 pm PST #488 of 10001
Because books.
He saved all that money...
Liese S. - Mar 11, 2005 4:46:48 pm PST #489 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Said "Here ya' go, honey."
SailAweigh - Mar 11, 2005 5:39:54 pm PST #490 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
"Don't spend it all in, what am I talking about?...Fucket."
deborah grabien - Mar 11, 2005 10:17:02 pm PST #491 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Now that's what I'm talkin' about!
Susan W. - Mar 12, 2005 7:40:19 pm PST #492 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
For those of you who write long format fiction (say novella and beyond), whether fanfic or original, how many stories do you have in your mental bank ahead of the one you're currently working on?
Here's the contents of my brain's back burner:
1. The one about the girl who runs away from home disguised as a boy and ends up pressed into the Royal Navy circa 1800. I've got a very rough idea of the plot and a strong sense of the protagonists and some of the supporting characters. It'll come together as soon as I start researching it.
2. The time travel baseball story. I know how it starts and how it'll end, with some ideas for incidents along the way.
3. My Trail of Tears story. I know who the protagonists are, and how it starts, and that it'll have to be darker than anything I've attempted yet.
4. My Peninsular War werewolf story. I've been toying with the idea of doing a Peninsular War paranormal or two ever since I joked about changing Jack from the wip into a werewolf so I could pitch to Anna Genoese at Emerald City Writers Conference last year, but it just turned into a story on me a few days ago. I got a image in my mind for the opening scene where the hero gets bitten, and I know the heroine's name is Isabel and she has black hair. That's all. I don't even know if Isabel is Spanish or English yet. But somehow I know it's going to turn into a proper 100K novel on me in due course.
And that's not counting a couple of half-born worlds for epic fantasy (which I still want to attempt one of these days), the idea that if I really needed to I could probably do a short story for an anthology with supporting characters from the wip, and a cluster of very, very embryonic ideas--mostly either interesting characters who haven't told me their stories yet, or fascinating settings/historical incidents that I haven't pegged a character or a plot to yet.
This makes me want to write faster, because I hate that at the rate I write now, it'll be 2009 before I've finished the four listed. But OTOH there's some tiny paranoid part of me that wonders, "What if that's it? What if I run out of ideas?"