Does anybody mind if I pass out?

Willow ,'Beneath You'


The Great Write Way  

A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.


deborah grabien - Mar 02, 2003 2:27:15 pm PST #614 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Victor, nononono. Not as in "he'll look unintelligent if he does that". More like "having this particular character do this is so completely not this character that he'll look as though his brains suddenly leaked out his ears if he does that."

Consistency. ALL my characters make mistakes. In fact, I insist on it.


P.M. Marc - Mar 02, 2003 2:29:19 pm PST #615 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

My few attempts at Original Fiction involve a lot of coffee drinking. And ennui. And basically not a hell of a lot of plot, just angst.

The horror.

Err. This may be because most of the stuff was written a decade ago.


Theodosia - Mar 02, 2003 2:29:54 pm PST #616 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"

Deleting the first draft file before rekeying would pretty much be X-Treme Writing for me -- I would live in fear that just this once the first draft would have a sentence or image or piece of dialogue that someday I might want to go back to.

Besides, I figure I've got to allow my future Christopher Tolkien to have something to publish, right? :-)


Connie Neil - Mar 02, 2003 2:32:10 pm PST #617 of 10001
brillig

Mine is wanting to strangle characters. Would she do that?

I've always lumped that in under plot. I need certain people to get to certain places, and when they drag their feet I want to kick them. If they're resisting, either there's something illogical in the plot or in them.


Betsy HP - Mar 02, 2003 2:42:15 pm PST #618 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

I don't have writers' block. I have "god this sucks let's fix that sentence no it isn't quite right let's fix it again maybe another sentence would be better no go fix the first sentence again."

Anal-retentive: not just a choice, but a lifestyle.


victor infante - Mar 02, 2003 2:42:36 pm PST #619 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.

More like "having this particular character do this is so completely not this character that he'll look as though his brains suddenly leaked out his ears if he does that."

Oh, I getcha.


Betsy HP - Mar 02, 2003 2:43:57 pm PST #620 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

Theodosia, that terrifies me so much that I have a snippets file. When a scene doesn't work or isn't really necessary, I cut it out and move it to snippets. Maybe it will return, maybe it won't, but it doesn't feel as bad as throwing it away entirely.


deborah grabien - Mar 02, 2003 2:45:41 pm PST #621 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Betsy, I read that (the anal-retentive, fuss with first draft post) and had I been anything other than a complete pagan, I'd have crossed myself.

I expect I'm anal-retentive about damned near everything else. Just not that....


Betsy HP - Mar 02, 2003 2:46:22 pm PST #622 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

Crossed yourself to ward off contagion?


deborah grabien - Mar 02, 2003 2:48:53 pm PST #623 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Crossed yourself to ward off contagion?

Nope - I doubt individual writing issues are contagious. More as a "there is more, Horatio, than can be blah blahed in your philosophy" reaction (how in hell do I forget Hamlet???). Complete "whooosh" of warm air as something totally beyond me went by my ear.