Katie, you just got back all your cool cred.
I've tried to march in the Slayer Pride Parade ...
Joyce ,'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.
Polter-Cow - Jun 03, 2004 6:58:50 pm PDT #5079 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Katie M - Jun 03, 2004 6:59:41 pm PDT #5080 of 10001
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Woo hoo!
deborah grabien - Jun 03, 2004 9:09:56 pm PDT #5081 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Hell, even I loved Mathnet. I didn't believe any of it, mind you, but I adored the writing and the satire.
erikaj - Jun 04, 2004 8:49:08 am PDT #5082 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Anybody want to beta my "Alice Hoffman" story? I'm such a little faker...first David Simon, then Alice Hoffman...Oh, and Philip Roth. Someday I'm gonna be a big, grown-up writer and have a voice of my very own.
Susan W. - Jun 04, 2004 9:02:31 pm PDT #5083 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
In my attempt to fix the pacing problems with Lucy by opening with an extensively rewritten version of the former Ch. 3, I've managed to move the first meeting between the hero and heroine from p. 63 to p. 24.
If nothing else, that has to be an improvement.
deborah grabien - Jun 04, 2004 9:42:19 pm PDT #5084 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Susan, I'd say so.
erika, was out all day. Send, please.
Amy - Jun 05, 2004 7:03:12 am PDT #5085 of 10001
Because books.
Susan, insent. And yay for sooner hero/heroine meeting.
erika, that's so strange -- I just picked up Alice Hoffman's Blue Diary at the library this week, and I haven't read her in a few years. If it's not too long, I'd be happy to look at it -- I'm a little swamped between work and the fact that we're suddenly moving, but I'd be happy to read it.
erikaj - Jun 05, 2004 11:47:02 am PDT #5086 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Ok, cool. It's not quite done yet, but I'm thinking of sending it someplace next week...and I don't spot everything for myself. Sometimes my writing isn't as different from fic as I would like...insent in a bit. I'm such a little mimic/hero-worshipper. You guys are lucky to miss my Bridget Jones period...that was v.v. bad. ETA: Deb, AmyLiz, insent. Thanks a lot.
deborah grabien - Jun 05, 2004 12:33:17 pm PDT #5087 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Backflung, bebe. Awaiting the rest of it. The piece is a corker. I've done no hard editing on it, because I want to see the rest.
Susan W. - Jun 05, 2004 1:00:40 pm PDT #5088 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
OK, so I'm trying to make sure all the essential stuff from my original first and second chapters makes it into the newer, better paced version, and I'm having trouble figuring out where to put the all-important fact that Lucy starts out the story in love with her cousin Sebastian. The place where it would fit most naturally is shortly after the scene where she meets James, the hero of the piece. It would work within the logic of the story, and the infodump portion of it would be far enough removed from other infodumps to not halt the story flow too much. But I'm nervous about withholding that bit of info until after she meets the hero. I do hint at it earlier--she refers to him once as "dear Sebastian," and we know she thinks he's very handsome--but it's more subtext than text.
Thoughts?