Thank you, erika and Deb!
Hermanos! The devil has built a robot!
Numero Cinco ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Steph L. - Feb 28, 2003 9:40:30 am PST #593 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
erikaj - Feb 28, 2003 10:37:34 am PST #594 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I could relate to it too, in a first short hair in a long time way.
Theodosia - Feb 28, 2003 11:04:50 am PST #595 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"
Deb, I'm really torn, because much of it is just over-the-top silly. The high-concept description is pretty much "What if Armistead Maupin Wrote the X-Men?" which is indeed about as silly as it sounds. But I do enjoy it so much....
erikaj - Feb 28, 2003 11:15:50 am PST #596 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
sounds fun, I'd buy it.
deborah grabien - Feb 28, 2003 11:53:35 am PST #597 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
What's wrong with over the top silly?
Hey, I gave the Perry family The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai DVD for Christmas. One of my alltime favourite movies.
Silliness? It's what's for dinner.
Betsy HP - Mar 02, 2003 1:50:42 pm PST #598 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
My online writing list suggested this, and damn if it doesn't work.
First drafts are a lot easier for me written longhand. When I do them on the computer, I go all lapidary and edit and re-edit and re-edit before I have a paragraph done.
Freehand, I finish the para and move on. I strike through the occasional line, but that is it.
Shitty first drafts rule. Making it impossible to micro-edit makes it easier to birth the work.
Your process may vary.
P.M. Marc - Mar 02, 2003 1:52:11 pm PST #599 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Betsy, the best part about writing out longhand is that you end up doing a lot of clean-up/editing when you're typing it in, so it makes the first COMPUTER draft a lot cleaner.
I love it.
Betsy HP - Mar 02, 2003 1:56:46 pm PST #600 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
The thing is, without longhand, my first computer draft tends to be so clean that it's only one perfect paragraph long. NOT good.
Connie Neil - Mar 02, 2003 1:56:48 pm PST #601 of 10001
brillig
My wrists won't me do longhand anymore. Well, my wrists and the arthritis in my fingers. I used to love doing longhand, the shape of the letters themselves would affect the way the story flowed in my head.
deborah grabien - Mar 02, 2003 2:00:39 pm PST #602 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I've never done longhand for the actual work; all notes were written out, though. And Then Put Out The Light, for instance, had seventeen pages of notes about environments necessary for the book, all done in a small notebook, mostly on the beach at La Croisette, which is where most of the book takes place anyway.
But I can't write creatively in longhand. That much energy and attention on the physical aspect of getting what I'm doing down? Never happen. Also, I lose things whe I have write longhand. I wrote about thirty words a minute longhand, I type about 150 words a minute on a keyboard.
For me? No longhand. I'm working on full length-novel, what, number nine? And I've never written any other way except keyboard.
Even if I wanted to, multiple sclerosis wouldn't allow it. Typing is hard enough.