Envy me when I actually finish this thing.
Kaylee: So, uh, how come you don't care where you're going? Book: 'Cause how you get there is the worthier part.
'Serenity'
The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Susan W. - Jan 23, 2003 12:40:10 pm PST #491 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Am-Chau Yarkona - Jan 23, 2003 12:48:11 pm PST #492 of 10001
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
dialogue is definitely the most fun to write
Fun! Fun? There are days when it's harder than anything else, when they all go dumb as if someone had ripped thier lips off. Well, mine do.
Connie Neil - Jan 23, 2003 12:50:40 pm PST #493 of 10001
brillig
poke, poke "Talk to each other, dammit!"
Alibelle - Jan 23, 2003 12:54:05 pm PST #494 of 10001
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
I've never had my characters all shut up at once. I do my best to get them to slow down and wait their turns so everyone gets his or her chance to be heard, and of course that causes them to get huffy because, really, who wants to be reprimanded? But yes. Dialogue is fun.
as if someone had ripped thier lips off.
This sounds like an interesting story.
erikaj - Jan 23, 2003 12:54:30 pm PST #495 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I write short stories cause anything over twenty pages makes me panic about being longwinded and keeping all the the threads together. so far, anyway. Although someday, I want to write a novel.
Theodosia - Jan 23, 2003 12:55:05 pm PST #496 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"
Whereas I have to go back and cut out a lot of excess description and 'stage directions'.
There are about ten thousand different ways to write badly, she reflected gloomily....
Hil R. - Jan 23, 2003 12:55:52 pm PST #497 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Dialogue is definitely the hardest thing for me to write. I usually end up with three pages of description before I remember that the characters are supposed to be talking to each other. I've found that I sometimes end up with much more interesting (to me, anyway) stories when I just let the descriptions show what's going on, rather than trying to force my characters to talk. But while that can work for a short story, it simply doesn't go over too well for anything longer than that.
Connie Neil - Jan 23, 2003 12:56:10 pm PST #498 of 10001
brillig
There are about ten thousand different ways to write badly
And why there are so many notebooks locked away in trunks adn drawers, whispering to us about our pasts.
erikaj - Jan 23, 2003 12:57:04 pm PST #499 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Descriptions make me sweat. And not in the fun way. To write, I mean. I like other people's.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Jan 23, 2003 12:57:41 pm PST #500 of 10001
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
There are about ten thousand different ways to write badly, she reflected gloomily....
At least two for every writing implement in the universe. Not per writer, but per pen/keyboard/pencil. I'm depressingly convinced of this.
This sounds like an interesting story.
I try to steer clear of thinks that are much too gruesome. (She says, fully aware that she also writes vampires with hypocritical regularity.)