'War Stories'
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
OK, this is interesting. It's the current column of Murder at the Flatiron, from my publisher's website. It's written by my editor, Ruth Cavin.
I'd love to think the "manuscript we are publishing next year" is "Famous Flower." But that's probably reaching.
I just called my sister at Waldenbooks, and asked her about WaFM. It's in their warehouses, and Suzy ordered some copies for their store, and she's going to display it face-out and talk it up to Xmas customers.
She's also going to gie it to her district manager, who loves mystery/suspense and if DM likes it, she'll talk it up to the managers of all the KC and St. Louis stores.
EDIT:
COOL! Thanks, ita!
WHEE!
And Erin ROCKS, yea verily and mightily.
I broke 10,000 words. Without the Munchkin and his dick jokes. This is huge(Not that that didn't sound entendrish.) Taking a moment. And I'm done. But there is no way that I'll have 50k by 12/1 without heavy drugs, and even then, eh. But I'm proud.
Erika, I just got to 2K two days running. I think it's just taking me longer to learn how to write extended stuff. There's time for both of us to catch up.
But, candidly, winning is not necessarily the point of the exercise. I got the glimmer of a novel I want to write, and write for as long as it takes in the real world. That means I've already won.
Betsy, I'd say that basically sums up the big Why, in terms of how NaNoWriMo is so damned useful.
Who came up with the original concept, BTW, of writing a novel in a month? Anyone know?
I liked this particular section of the summary, Theo...
"Fraser, Fraser, Fraser." Fraser blinked.
::snerk::
Sean, I think the summarizing tool just looks for the really short sentences. Which, if this were technical writing, would be chapter headings and so on. But give it 55K of first person observation, and it kinda derails. Or else the algorithm has a thing for Paul Gross, which is a distinct possibility.
Yeah, one imagines that the autosummary would provide something more coherent when culling a white paper, or something to that effect. It also seems to be making an assumption that the most frequently appearing word in the passage is the subject of the paper.
Or else the algorithm has a thing for Paul Gross, which is a distinct possibility.
This also seems to be a possibility.