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

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-t - May 13, 2009 1:45:57 pm PDT #1569 of 6734
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 6734
“Not dead yet!”

Whenever you're ready, -t, you can ping me.

-t - May 13, 2009 2:52:30 pm PDT #1571 of 6734
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 6734
“Not dead yet!”

No prob. Word's fine with me.

Gudanov - May 14, 2009 5:12:59 am PDT #1573 of 6734
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 6734
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 6734
brillig

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 6734
“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?

Gudanov - May 16, 2009 5:19:41 pm PDT #1577 of 6734
Coding and Sleeping

I was hit with a new story idea tonight over hamburgers.

Cool.

Chapter 10 is done. One character dead, though he was a bit of a redshirt. More important characters will pop their clogs later. One fledgling relationship destroyed beyond repair. I'm up to 66,000 words now.

erikaj - May 18, 2009 12:02:01 pm PDT #1578 of 6734
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

Is it cool or lame that I get heated up writing sex scenes?

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