Sure! Sending...
Sooner or later, you're gonna want it. And the second — the second — that happens, you know I'll be there. I'll slip in, have myself a real good day.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
deborah grabien - Oct 20, 2003 1:15:45 pm PDT #2347 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Sean K - Oct 20, 2003 1:48:29 pm PDT #2348 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I think I may try to partake of the NaNoWriMo. Now, what I wonder is, which novel should I try to write during November.
I'm heavily considering writing the MillicenttVS fic (which I had already figured to be novella length, anyway), but there's also the possibility of writing one of several other story ideas I've been kicking around forever, or possibly a new idea altogether.
Susan W. - Oct 20, 2003 2:02:49 pm PDT #2349 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
That's sort of the point. You write the 50,000. That's all you're on the hook for. If you need to write more to complete the book, that's fine. The point is the commitment.
Ah. Some of the discussion I saw on another board made it look like the point was also completing an idea.
Still, not this year. I need to finish this edit on the current project, spend some more time on freelance ideas that have some chance at immediate earnings, and start setting up the pieces for my next project. I couldn't get 50,000 words on it in November. I could make November my big research month to figure out exactly where I'm going to fit the story into whatever Wellington's army was up to in the second half of 1811, and write 50,000 words in December, but I really need that research homework first.
Beverly - Oct 20, 2003 2:12:04 pm PDT #2350 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Got it Deb, and backflung.
victor infante - Oct 20, 2003 2:34:21 pm PDT #2351 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Posted this over on LJ, but waited until the board was better to post here.
I'm back to writing my ongoing column on writing, "Writing from the Real World," for Writemovies.com.
I'm trying a different tact with it this time around, less about screenwriting (which was the space my head was in for the first go round) and this time more general--more about poetry and fiction, et al. It's cynical and bitter and just a wee bit curmudgeonly, and I hope you enjoy it!
This week? The Validation Tango.
Also, if you have any great ideas for areas in the writer's life to explore, please let me know!
Betsy HP - Oct 20, 2003 3:02:14 pm PDT #2352 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Since you've finished a Regency in a year, Susan, I'm not sure you need external motivation. NaNoWriMo is more of a "get up off your ass and WRITE, dammit!" challenge.
Which would actually be tricky unless you had the right desk. Must. rethink. metaphor.
Susan W. - Oct 20, 2003 3:04:42 pm PDT #2353 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Two years, actually. I started it back in 2001. I need to pick up the pace in the future if I'm going to make a career of this.
erikaj - Oct 20, 2003 3:05:31 pm PDT #2354 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Victor, your column rules.(But I think kicking the little punk's ass would make me feel better, at least for the moment,)
Liese S. - Oct 20, 2003 6:02:17 pm PDT #2355 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
All right. I'm in.
Dammit.
victor infante - Oct 20, 2003 6:04:49 pm PDT #2356 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Victor, your column rules.
Thank ya!
(But I think kicking the little punk's ass would make me feel better, at least for the moment,)
Well, probably. But it would be an empty, fleeting pleasure...