Hee! Yay, Barb!
Lydia: But you are a vampire. Spike: If I'm not, I'm gonna be pissed about drinking all that blood.
'Potential'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
SailAweigh - May 12, 2009 5:10:14 pm PDT #1567 of 6690
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Gudanov - May 13, 2009 4:55:43 am PDT #1568 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
So I wrote 1000 words.
Is it something about sharks riding horses? Glad you got going.
I think I got in about 600 - 800 words last night. The first intimate scene came up last night and that slowed me down. Also in a place where I narrated a conversation, I decided to yank the narration and use dialog instead.
Hmmm... Should I use dialogue instead of dialog? I'm not sure if there what the different between the two words is. I do a fair amount of user interface programming so I'm used to typing dialog in the context of a "dialog box".
-t - May 13, 2009 1:45:57 pm PDT #1569 of 6690
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I think either spelling is acceptable.
I finally got caught up in here, yay! And I've been writing, more yay! I had an epiphany about a project that made it the One True Project for Right Now (it's a perennial problem for me, I try to focus on one thing and get distracted by another idea) and started writing longhand in a bound journal. That used to be what I always did, but I was seduced by the Word Processor with its promises of easy editing, which was also my downfall as I am one to get mired in revising when I should just be plowing through the first draft.
Anyway, it's going well, got about 4000 words that maybe could stand alone but I think it will end up being about 20k. I'll be needing a beta in a few days if anyone is interested. Retold fairy tale, basically.
Barb - May 13, 2009 2:46:25 pm PDT #1570 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
Whenever you're ready, -t, you can ping me.
-t - May 13, 2009 2:52:30 pm PDT #1571 of 6690
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Thanks, Barb. I can send you a Word file or share a Google doc with you, as you prefer, as soon as I get it typed up. Friday or so, probably.
Barb - May 13, 2009 2:53:32 pm PDT #1572 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
No prob. Word's fine with me.
Gudanov - May 14, 2009 5:12:59 am PDT #1573 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Last night was a writing night. After the kids went to sleep, I stayed up late writing. Not good for the sleeping but I got in about 1800 words. Chapter 10 has some interesting character interaction. It's hard to stop once I get going. I'm really looking forward to chapters 11 and 12, lots of stuff going on in those.
Gudanov - May 15, 2009 6:10:31 am PDT #1574 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
No time to write last night, maybe no time tonight either. Sadness. I have a relationship to destroy and a character to kill dammit.
Connie Neil - May 15, 2009 3:45:07 pm PDT #1575 of 6690
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I had a dream last night that was close to a nightmare. With a little working, it's morphed itself into a pretty good story in the horror vein. But I don't want to write it, it gives me the willies and I don't want to associate with it.
But it's not like I've been embarrassed by a glut of produceable ideas or the mental umph to write them. It's very frustrating.
Barb - May 15, 2009 3:50:47 pm PDT #1576 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
I have a relationship to destroy and a character to kill dammit.
And... I'm flashing to Princess Bride:
"Tyrone, you know how much I love watching you work, but I've got my country's 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder and Guilder to frame for it; I'm swamped."
I was hit with a new story idea tonight over hamburgers.
Connie, maybe if you write it, you purge yourself of it?