Whohoo! Congrats, Gus!
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
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.
Liese S. - Jan 31, 2006 9:05:09 am PST #5363 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Consuela - Jan 31, 2006 3:22:11 pm PST #5364 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
WeremonkeynovelwriterGUS!
Rock on!
(And how do I love that you forgot you wrote it? THIIIIIIS MUCH!)
Connie Neil - Jan 31, 2006 4:43:13 pm PST #5365 of 10001
brillig
Connie actually has a perfectly good novel in good-sized chunks; I know, because I've read some of it. She avoids quite a few common traps, right out the gate, and some of the few traps she did fall into are extremely shallow and easy for anyone with an instinct to climb right out of. So yes, she should do that thing.
Hee. Do you remember which traps I did fall into?
JoeCrow - Jan 31, 2006 6:51:15 pm PST #5366 of 10001
"what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?" "An autistic hermaphodite." -Allyson
Some more Gus-ward congratulimifications. 'scuse me while I slide on the end of the "vastly amused that you forgot about the novel you just sold" bench.
deborah grabien - Feb 01, 2006 6:41:17 am PST #5367 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Do you remember which traps I did fall into?
Basically a question of balancing tell and show. There were spots where you needed to show - early on, I remember her getting word of a phone message from her secretary, one of those big moments, and holding back all the way too far on her reaction. Problem there was that the reader had trouble catching up with her physical reaction, which was to get the hell out of the building before he showed up. The occasional tell instead of show moment - history of the Fenris myth, you as narrator telling the reader, rather than giving it to us through the character's memory, making it part of her experience instead of a classroom fact.
But those are very shallow traps. They get easier to avoid, the more you write. The story and characters were sound.
Connie Neil - Feb 01, 2006 2:08:34 pm PST #5368 of 10001
brillig
Thanks, deb, I remember that's what you told me at the time. I was afraid there was something I missed.
Now, if I could just find my lost motivation . . .
Anne W. - Feb 01, 2006 3:01:29 pm PST #5369 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Did you check under the couch cushions?
Connie Neil - Feb 01, 2006 3:43:39 pm PST #5370 of 10001
brillig
Hmmm . . .
No, that's a cat.
deborah grabien - Feb 01, 2006 3:51:48 pm PST #5371 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I want to start Cleveland Rocks.
And until my husband - who has constituted himself, with my blessing, the Keeper of All Biographical Information for the legendary fictional Chicago and Delta blues session guy my narrator, JP Kinkaid, will be inducting into the R&R Hall - gets me that info, I'm DIW.
Damn it.
dcp - Feb 01, 2006 4:45:31 pm PST #5372 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
I have apparently sold a novel-length thing.
Yay, Gus!
Tell more. Title? Publisher? Release date? Background? Was it plucked from the slush pile, or was there some other process?