Ooh. NaNoWriWee.
Inara: Mal, this isn't the ancient sea. You don't have to go down with your ship. Mal: She ain't going down. She ain't going anywhere.
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The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Polter-Cow - Oct 09, 2004 3:36:48 pm PDT #7130 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Betsy HP - Oct 09, 2004 3:38:46 pm PDT #7131 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Yup. 72 hours, take no prisoners. (It was originally Labor Day Weekend, but we rewrote it so it was a choice of Labor Day or Columbus Day.)
Topic!Cindy - Oct 09, 2004 3:43:07 pm PDT #7132 of 10001
What is even happening?
Oh do it, Betsy.
§ ita § - Oct 09, 2004 3:47:24 pm PDT #7133 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So the novel you'd write in the weekend is the same novel you'd write at a leisurely pace?
Why not just write another novel? The bar is set pretty low -- there are two things you need to accomplish -- word count, and deadline. If you try and do it with something dear to your heart, it can't but make you anxious.
Allyson - Oct 09, 2004 3:50:35 pm PDT #7134 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
How many words are in a novel? I'm 2000 words into a 4000 word essay, and feel like I've written War & Peace.
Betsy HP - Oct 09, 2004 4:05:38 pm PDT #7135 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
So the novel you'd write in the weekend is the same novel you'd write at a leisurely pace?
No. Not so much.
The novel I wrote in the weekend is guaranteed to suck, except that I will have written it in a weekend.
The novel I write in a more leisurely fashion will not suck. God, I hope not.
The idea is that you edit the NIWITW until it doesn't suck.
Betsy HP - Oct 09, 2004 4:06:31 pm PDT #7136 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
An actual novel is around 100,000, I think.
§ ita § - Oct 09, 2004 4:06:45 pm PDT #7137 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The idea is that you edit the NIWITW until it doesn't suck.
Is that a primary goal? I'd think just getting the words out (sort of like The Artist's Way morning pages) would be useful in and of itself.
Betsy HP - Oct 09, 2004 4:08:05 pm PDT #7138 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
That's what I thought, ita. Now I am rethinking.
Susan W. - Oct 09, 2004 4:09:01 pm PDT #7139 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I think you start calling it a novel rather than a novella somewhere around 40,000 to 50,000 words.