Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Ack! Hope I didn't kill the thread. Trusting everyone is off writing diligently.
Deborah -- Found Arabella on the web; I'd never heard of it. I'm definitely going to look for a copy this weekend. And I would love to read the story you're doing for them. The length is so restrictive, though -- I'm impatient to read some of the stories and see how you develop a romance with conflict in such a tight space.
AmyLiz, you didn't kill the thread - it's Angel night.
Mine's a ghost story, and the romance is the secret that caused the haunting. It's the discovery of the truth that highlights the romance. I'm probably about 500 words away from the end, but it's going to need a thorough beta read.
Well, I'm no writer (I'm a physics student), I just like to lurk here and watch the work process of the others, and even if I could write, it wouldn't be in English, since it's only my second language (my mother tongue is Hebrew, which is very different).
However, I find watching the creative process fascinating, and I love reading, and I am still thrilled by the possibility of communicating with the people who are behind the words, so to speak, so I love getting to read anything Buffista-written (as long as they remember that I don't really know what I'm talking about and just use this as an opportunity to read things written by people whose words I like).
Nilly, do you want to read what I've got so far?
AmyLiz, when you're ready, you'll have lots of volunteers.
Deena, yup, definitely.
Cool. Insent in a minute, then.
Well, I'm no writer
You may not be a writer of fiction, but you're a writer of Nilly, and a beautifully talented one.
even if I could write, it wouldn't be in English
I wish I could read Hebrew, if you're even better in that.
Wrod. Story about writing and Hebrew...Philip Roth, an author well known for getting characters into...compromising sexual positions, visited Israel once, and did not know very much at all. His translator taught him the words for boy and girl and said that should be a good start for him.
His translator taught him the words for boy and girl and said that should be a good start for him.
BWAH! That's right, Roth knew Yiddish but not Hebrew. I wonder if someone taught him the word for "breast"?
Shedayim!