There's something about a food that moves all by itself that gives me the heebie-jeebies.

Joyce ,'Never Leave Me'


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.


Laga - Oct 28, 2007 10:58:08 am PDT #9446 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I signed up for NaNoWriMo, username Laga. Who else is in this year?


Typo Boy - Oct 28, 2007 11:09:00 am PDT #9447 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Had a dream last night with a plot bunny. A hit woman is close friends with a woman, and is hired to kill that woman's husband. She is too professional to consider not taking the job. As an act of kindness she does persuade to couple to take out a large life insurance policy. She murder the husband a few weeks after the policy goes into effect. And of course that act of kindness eventually leads to her being caught, because the wife eventually grows suspicious, wondering why her friend was so insistent on their taking out that policy.


-t - Oct 28, 2007 11:32:47 am PDT #9448 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

i'm registered as tskaredoff. Thursday.


Susan W. - Oct 28, 2007 2:57:07 pm PDT #9449 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

I decided not to do NaNo after all--I've almost finished the first "act" of my WIP, and I'm in a place where I want to go back and do some rewrites rather than push forward.


Connie Neil - Oct 28, 2007 3:41:11 pm PDT #9450 of 10001
brillig

The place my head is in, I could probably use NaNo to write this short story I promised. But deadlines and I are unmixy things, I get stubborn and think I'm proving something to the universe by saying, "I'm not going to get it done, and you can't make me!"

It is not helpful when you have authority issues with the inside of your own head.


Laga - Oct 28, 2007 7:40:04 pm PDT #9451 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Hee hee! I love the email I got from NaNoWriMo, especially this part:

leave ugly prose and poorly written passages on the page to be cleaned up later. Your inner editor will be very grumpy about this, but your inner editor is a nitpicky jerk who foolishly believes that it is possible to write a brilliant first draft if you write it slowly enough.


erikaj - Oct 29, 2007 9:48:07 am PDT #9452 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

I *have* written brilliant first drafts. But that is more like something working through me than my great efforts. You can't predict that.


Laga - Oct 29, 2007 9:53:45 am PDT #9453 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I can imagine writing a brilliant first draft of a poem, maybe a short story, but cranking out a perfect 175 page novel in one go is incomprehensible to me.


erikaj - Oct 29, 2007 10:15:29 am PDT #9454 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

No, probably not likely. I was just talking about reviews and such.


Zenkitty - Oct 29, 2007 1:49:25 pm PDT #9455 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I'm toying with the idea of attempting NaNoWriMo. Or maybe it's toying with me. I have an idea for a story, anyway. Except now I'm invested in it, so I don't know if I can write it without caring if it's good or not.