'Destiny'
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
This challenge topic is already crystallising into something really interesting to me: a study in comparative sizing. Silence is either huge, an enormous empty devouring thing, or else its deeply small and personalised.
I wonder if a challenge on noise would break down the same way?
La Tep,c'est moi. I think partially it's cause my dad can click out and still be in the room with you...and even as I post it, I feel y'all going "Again with her Dad Issues...son of a...spank your inner moppet and get on with it."
In other news?
I finished "Matty Groves."
Done. Finis. My house is untenanted for a few hours.
83,000 words or so. 350-plus manuscript pages.
Done.
Betas? Anyone want to read a novel from top to bottom and tell me what you think?
I'd be happy to look at it... I have a question for people here. Every time I write something, unless it's really short, I have trouble deciding what verb tenses to use and change my mind several times. How do you decide? Why?
I don't know, erika - tense is one of those things that come automatically to me. I go by feel, the feel of the piece.
But I'm good at tense correcting (grinning).
I'll e you the manuscript. I need to know if it hangs together, how the pacing works, anything that glaringly contradicts anything else, whether the bits are sufficiently tied together at the book's end, etc.
I'm too close to it, and will be for about ten days to two weeks.
So I loves me my beta readers.
Every time I write something, unless it's really short, I have trouble deciding what verb tenses to use and change my mind several times. How do you decide? Why?
My answer to everything is, "That's how it comes to me." If I feel like when I'm writing, I'm there, I use present tense, but if I feel like I'm more telling a story that's already happened, I go past. This isn't helpful at all.
I know which tense sounds right, but I couldn't name you the types of tenses under threat of hot pokers. (what the hell is pluperfect, anyway?) I have to play the sentence over in my head to which plays best if I have any doubt.
Tenses have to do with time, don't they?
ok.I'm looking forward to it. I just wondered if there were things people considered...I may just pick present cause that's where it started. Or, past is traditional for a reason...
yep
Wow! Woo hoo for being done.