Don't belong. Dangerous, like you. Can't be controlled. Can't be trusted. Everyone could just go on without me and not have to worry. People could be what they wanted to be. Could be with the people they wanted. Live simple. No secrets.

River ,'Objects In Space'


The Great Write Way  

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


erikaj - Jan 01, 2005 2:32:33 pm PST #9088 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

"Can you be both?" Possibly, but should the book be huge, I'm gonna need something to say in interviews besides "I made a bet with somebody I was hot for, thinking it would suck and he'd get off my back about my fic habit, Barbara." I don't think I have any true worries about greatness, with a story like that.


Connie Neil - Jan 01, 2005 2:35:35 pm PST #9089 of 10001
brillig

I made a bet with somebody I was hot for

That's the kind of thing that taught me long ago never to make bets. Though paying off the losing bet was fun.


erikaj - Jan 01, 2005 2:39:22 pm PST #9090 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

Well, it's fake really...just a little fake external pressure to make me stick it out.


Connie Neil - Jan 01, 2005 2:44:52 pm PST #9091 of 10001
brillig

Ah, fake pressure means you can up the ante outrageously. Tell tales of the horrid forfeits you'll have to pay.


erikaj - Jan 01, 2005 2:49:45 pm PST #9092 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

who knows? There could be costumes... I'm late right now, actually. Because back in November I was having 2000 word days, so I said I could have it by 1/1. So didn't happen. December's been very hit-or-miss.


Susan W. - Jan 01, 2005 3:26:54 pm PST #9093 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Can I get some betas for a little six-page bit of novel?


Topic!Cindy - Jan 01, 2005 3:31:57 pm PST #9094 of 10001
What is even happening?

Sail, I think I'm at the same place with my writing.

Susan, I'm something like 5 years older than you, and 5000 paces behind you in experience, and 5,000,000 in work ethic. I'm glad you had your ephiphany, and hope it makes it easier for you to just be you. I think your ideas on excellence equalling talent+work ethic are right on. I am of the non-competitive type, enough so, that even Victor's be-the-best-*you* can be leaves me wondering if I can be ( or be arsed) to be the best I can be.

I have been made speechless by how many really fabulous fanfic writers there are in the Jossverse, and I always wonder if they're writing original stuff, too.

Yep, AmyLiz, me too. Every fanfic story of Plei's that I've read has left me wanting to go to B&N and pick up her latest original fiction. I feel like a thief, reading her for free. Her characterization is to die for, her wording is gifted, her plots are compelling...I'm getting verklempt.


Amy - Jan 01, 2005 3:38:57 pm PST #9095 of 10001
Because books.

Plei's fanfic is absolutely delicious, in every sense of the word. I love...oh dear, now I'm forgetting...Herself, I think it is?, too.

And Cindy, you write beautifully. I can imagine a whole raft of personal essays from you one day, on parenting and faith and family and simply being a person in the world today. I love reading your LJ.


Karl - Jan 01, 2005 3:47:07 pm PST #9096 of 10001
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.

Drabble on Falling (100 words exactly, excluding title):

I don't think about it, really, even though my left arm no longer extends fully. I should have removed those damned toe-clips when I inherited the bike. But I didn't, and I can't afford physical therapy. So I wander around with one and a half functional arms, not even noticing until I do something mundane like tie my shoes. An annoyance, nothing more.

I wonder, in darker moments, whether this is the path my life will take. Will I lose just one thing at a time, and not even notice? A gradual fade to nothing, to the universe's background noise.


SailAweigh - Jan 01, 2005 3:48:25 pm PST #9097 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

And Cindy, you write beautifully. I can imagine a whole raft of personal essays from you one day, on parenting and faith and family and simply being a person in the world today. I love reading your LJ.

Definitely. And one of the reasons I feel such a fraud. I look at the level of writing I see by everyone here (and for some reason, I've always felt the most intimidated by Cindy!) and I wonder that I dare to post my stuff in the same space. But that's what I've finally decided. I have to. Trite but true--nothing ventured, nothing gained. So, here I am.