I'm just thankful that I can bring my knitting on board the plane again.
ION, I'm looking at the catalog for the Taos Institute of Arts, and I really, really want to take a writing workshop.
If you want me to leave, you can put your hands on my hot, tight little body and make me.
Spike ,'Get It Done'
The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Anne W. - Jan 23, 2003 7:08:31 am PST #478 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Theodosia - Jan 23, 2003 9:03:07 am PST #479 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Is that held in Taos? My interest goes up a bit if so.
Anne W. - Jan 23, 2003 9:07:45 am PST #480 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Yup. I'm already scoping out B&B's. The Web addy is [link]
Right now I'm going through the catalog, trying to decide if I want to take a writing workshop, a drawing course, or tapestry weaving. I'd been saving up to take the course on Navajo rug weaving, but they're not offering it this year.
Susan W. - Jan 23, 2003 10:21:23 am PST #481 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
How do people ever manage to write short stories and novellas? Last night I did a word count of the portion of my novel I'm currently working on, and it's 7,000 words for one DAY. Which is only half over. Granted, it's a day full of plot twists and characters discussing the ramifications thereof, but still.
Save a place for me on the JK Rowling and Diana Gabaldon bench.
Anne W. - Jan 23, 2003 10:23:22 am PST #482 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Save a place for me on the JK Rowling and Diana Gabaldon bench.
I'm right there with you.
Susan W. - Jan 23, 2003 10:34:08 am PST #483 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Though now that I think about it, the Rowling-Gabaldon bench isn't such a bad place to be. I mean, if I can get even a small fraction of their sales my career is made!
Am-Chau Yarkona - Jan 23, 2003 10:37:52 am PST #484 of 10001
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
How do people ever manage to write short stories and novellas?
It's easy. Write less.
Seriously, my favourite fanfic form (where I can do anything I like) is the 100 word drabble. I was very amazed when I had a fic (really a series) hit 89 000, and I've never had an original one hit more than 60 000. The current novel (which has been brewing a long time but is only thirteen days old on paper) is just over 10 000 and about a fifth of the way through.
Edit: Could I have used brackets (wonderful device though they are) any more in that post? Three sentances, and a (intresting and detailed) set of parantheses in every one!
Theodosia - Jan 23, 2003 11:46:13 am PST #485 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Time in drama is a very malleable aspect. My friend Adam-Troy Castro did a wonderful SF/action novella ("The Wonder Drug") where about 3/4s of the story takes place in about a minute and a half.
Another writer friend of mine points out that in certain kinds of story, conversation is the action.
Betsy HP - Jan 23, 2003 11:47:00 am PST #486 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Mine, for instance. Left to myself, I write radio plays. Then I have to go back and edit in the other four senses.
Susan W. - Jan 23, 2003 11:49:02 am PST #487 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Heh. My 7000 words are mostly dialogue, with connecting bits as needed to get my protagonist from point A to point B so she can talk to someone else. I have to go back in and perk up the action and description at some point. My rough drafts read a bit like shooting scripts, sans clever asides.