You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.

Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


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.


Amy - Oct 17, 2006 9:57:04 am PDT #8555 of 10001
Because books.

JZ, some people charge a flat rate dollar a page. Some charge anywhere from $12 to $22 an hour, with the expectation that in copyediting a novel, you can *generally* edit about ten pages per hour. So you can do it either way, based on what you want to make and what you think she can pay.

I've found with first-timers, it's easiest to charge a flat rate so there's a concrete expectation up front.


javachik - Oct 17, 2006 12:46:09 pm PDT #8556 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.

Hi peeps. I know some of you and would like to know most of you. May I please join the GWW? And can someone please point me to the roolz (I'm guessing there's a word limit, right?). And if I am totally out of my element and coming across as a nin com poop, please let me know.


P.M. Marc - Oct 17, 2006 12:54:33 pm PDT #8557 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Hey, sweetie! Welcome aboard!

Steph can fill you in on most of it, but it's drabbles, so 100 words.


Ginger - Oct 17, 2006 1:00:50 pm PDT #8558 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Javachick! Oh, good.

In addition to the drabbles, this is also a place where people talk about the writing they're doing, or, in my case, the writing I'm not doing, unless you count writing about flow-accelerated corrosion.


javachik - Oct 17, 2006 1:03:39 pm PDT #8559 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.

Thanks! Sounds like the right spot for the likes of me.

Flow-accelerated corrosion. Mmmmm....sexy!


Steph L. - Oct 17, 2006 1:04:25 pm PDT #8560 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

t points and screams at javachik, a la Body Snatchers....

Well, the weekly topic is posted here every Monday, as well as in the LJ community. It's pretty straightforward -- they're not fanfic drabbles, but beyond that, anything goes. Plus, though drabbles are officially 100 words, nobody around here is the Drabble Police. If you go over or under, it's no big deal.

Also, you have to send me chocolate. (Or Graeter's....)


SailAweigh - Oct 17, 2006 1:07:57 pm PDT #8561 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Welcome, javachik! Looking forward to reading your offerings to our deity drabbles.


javachik - Oct 17, 2006 1:09:06 pm PDT #8562 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.

Thanks Sail (er...is that how people shorten your name?)~!

I tried to find GWW in the LJ communities but it's not coming up.


SailAweigh - Oct 17, 2006 1:10:26 pm PDT #8563 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Yes, indeedy!

Did you look for "great_write_way" under communities? Gotta have the underscores.


Topic!Cindy - Oct 17, 2006 1:11:25 pm PDT #8564 of 10001
What is even happening?

Hi, javachik. Welcome. In addition to the weekly topic, people sometimes workshop whatever they're working on, but that has happened less, lately.

I tried to find GWW in the LJ communities but it's not coming up.
Here's the LJ: [link]