My drabble first drafts are all 75 words, I shit you not.
That's the thrill of living in the Hellmouth! There's a veritable cornucopia of fiends and devils and ghouls to engage ... Pardon me for finding the glass half-full.
Giles ,'Same Time, Same Place'
The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Jesse - Apr 20, 2004 6:45:45 am PDT #4109 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
§ ita § - Apr 20, 2004 6:54:32 am PDT #4110 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I hit 80 odd, say "Is this enough? No?" and then add 30 words and work down from there, pretty consistently.
I'm so terribly short form.
Beverly - Apr 20, 2004 7:03:56 am PDT #4111 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I'm ordinarily wordy-girl. But with these, I'm writing very short and terse. I hit word count and it's 88, 94 words, so I go back and change a sentence to read more smoothly. I sanded things a bit on the last one, and threw out three words. It gave me room for a whole other sentence.
Loving this. Loving Steph for suggesting it.
Nilly - Apr 20, 2004 7:04:50 am PDT #4112 of 10001
Swouncing
Oh, are you a write-long person?
Have you seen some of my posts in the "Firefly" thread? t /sheepish
er, yeah, that's my point. I don't have eight more pages to say about that.
Mine is more like "OK, that's all the blah-blah I could possibly think about. On completely unrelated topics, too. Now find some sort of point in there, make sure it's relevant, and write it".
Jesse - Apr 20, 2004 7:19:27 am PDT #4113 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
No matter what my limit is, my first draft is short. My five-page papers always started at 3. For work now, I'll often have, say 300 words to write, and I almost always end up with 250.
erikaj - Apr 20, 2004 7:59:03 am PDT #4114 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Is anyone capable of not writing a brilliant... Me. Mine blew.
deborah grabien - Apr 20, 2004 8:05:23 am PDT #4115 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Mine blew.
If you wrote one that blew, you apparently didn't post it.
Deena - Apr 20, 2004 8:46:01 am PDT #4116 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
I saw no blowing.
I enjoyed that. One of my favorite memories is of driving from Northeastern Oregon into Northwestern Idaho and down this narrow little road into a deep red rock canyon. I'd never tried to write it down before.
I'm going to have to try that again.
sumi - Apr 20, 2004 9:07:57 am PDT #4117 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I posted my drabble over on lj. Shall I post it here too?
deborah grabien - Apr 20, 2004 9:11:08 am PDT #4118 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.