Below are links to a three-part collaboration by some people whose blogs I check pretty regularly. A good story, well told, I think. I laughed. I cried.
Part 1: [link]
Part 2: [link]
Part 3: [link]
You've got my support. Just think of me as...as your... You know, I'm searching for 'supportive things' and I'm coming up all bras.
Xander ,'Empty Places'
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.
dcp - Dec 27, 2007 2:44:05 pm PST #9622 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Deena - Dec 28, 2007 8:10:04 am PST #9623 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Gar, I hope you write it. I'd love to read it.
Typo Boy - Dec 28, 2007 8:14:43 am PST #9624 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.
I think I'm coming closer. Also I'd love to see what Laga does with her spider queen - a different direction than I'm taking, but there is more than one possible goth nutcracker.
Deena - Dec 28, 2007 8:16:22 am PST #9625 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Oh definitely. The spider queen idea is creepy-good. You guys write them, maybe we can put them in an anthology somewhere.
Toddson - Dec 29, 2007 6:23:08 am PST #9626 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Re Nutcracker - it's Mother Ginger (danced by a man) who has all the children under her skirt.
Laga - Dec 29, 2007 11:04:58 am PST #9627 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
thanks, Toddson.
Miracleman - Jan 03, 2008 8:25:19 am PST #9628 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Know what I hate?
When I can't start.
I got two or three stories I think would be great...or at least peachy-keen...and I have no idea how to start them.
Blank Word doc just hanging in space, looking at me, pleading to be filled with words...
Fuckcake.
lisah - Jan 03, 2008 8:34:18 am PST #9629 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
I got two or three stories I think would be great...or at least peachy-keen...and I have no idea how to start them.
Then don't start them! Begin at the end or the middle or do a sort of an outline if you know basically what your plot will be or do character synopsis.
Connie Neil - Jan 03, 2008 9:37:53 am PST #9630 of 10001
brillig
Blank Word doc just hanging in space, looking at me, pleading to be filled with words...
It can sense your fear. Try a pen and a piece of scratch paper. Nothing as significant as a full "sheet" of Word doc.
I like Wordpad and Notepad these days, too. It feels more intimate than firing up the full word processor.
SailAweigh - Jan 03, 2008 9:40:19 am PST #9631 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Fear of blank white space is what keeps me writing drabbles. I usually compose those in my head on my commute home. Too few words or too many are easily fixed once I'm home - 100 words is cake.