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A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
I added a little context that I felt I needed, cut a bunch out, and reorganized for clarity. What do you think? Did it work?
It rocks, Kristin. It not only kept all the necessary information, it made it a lot more colorful. I don't even miss whatever you cut out. I can't tell what's not there anymore. Supermegaimprovement all around, I say.
Kristin, I love the way the paragraphs flow now. I can't pick out exactly what you did, but it's both clearer and more concise.
Deb, those two are breath-stopping, especially the second.
And to the wall-slamming thing? I had posters hung in some odd places where my hormonally-overcharged teenaged sons punched holes in the wallboard.
Kristin, yesyesyes. More light shining on those kids, but without a drop of sentiment.
After whining and procrastinating all day, I finally sat down to write around 8:00. And wrote eight pages in three hours. It felt especially good because I looked at the last three pages I'd written in Alabama, laboriously, at one page per hour, and realized they were utter crap. And then I realized how to fix them and move on from there.
Yay Susan!
Thank you for the earlier affirmation, everyone. It was needed to allow me to push on through tonight...
I too achieved something this evening. Final revisions are in. Essay is done. I would like to post, but I think it's too long. How many words can each of these little boxy thingys hold? Is it worth posting the whole thing, or would it be better to simple send out to anyone who's interested? I just need a final "attagirl" to make me feel accomplished, especially since I tried (and failed) to go to sleep three times in the last couple of hours and now only have three hours until the alarm goes off. Anyone? Bueller?
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How many words can each of these little boxy thingys hold?
Kristin, I threadsucked BBaBB and found:
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Gus "Buffistas Building a Better Board" Sep 2, 2004 6:00:56 am PDT
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eta: The members of an autosplit post have an additional expansion allowance of 2000 characters for edits, at which point they will be truncated (max 6000).
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That's characters, not words.
Kristin, this is the first time I've read it, since the past 3-4 days were so harried for me that I skipped and skimmed most of my usual threads. That's extremely powerful and wrenching writing you've got there.
Very good.
Now go get some sleep.