HOLY CRAP NEIL GAIMAN HAS TWITTERED ABOUT THE GOTHIC CHARM SCHOOL SITE!
I SAW THAT!!!! There may have been live-action squeeage in the middle of lunch.
Riley: Oh, yeah. Sorry 'bout last time. Heard I missed out on some fun. Xander: Oh yeah, fun was had. Also frolic, merriment and near-death hijinks.
'Never Leave Me'
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.
amych - Jun 20, 2009 10:44:58 am PDT #1729 of 6690
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Amy - Jun 20, 2009 11:09:40 am PDT #1730 of 6690
Because books.
Aw, Jilli, that is completely awesome! Go, Mr. Gaiman! Representing our Jilli!
DebetEsse - Jun 20, 2009 12:02:17 pm PDT #1731 of 6690
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Has the site crashed yet? He's got a hash tag for when he breaks the Internet.
Liese S. - Jun 20, 2009 7:36:01 pm PDT #1732 of 6690
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
YOU ASKED HIM FOR A BLURB, RIGHT?
Gudanov - Jun 21, 2009 10:47:43 am PDT #1733 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
That's awesome Jilli!
Gudanov - Jun 22, 2009 5:32:06 am PDT #1734 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Chapter 23 is done and I've got a good start on chapter 24. More things keep coming full circle.
Also, I've managed to keep my blog with daily updates for five days now. We'll see how long that will last.
Gudanov - Jun 23, 2009 5:02:08 am PDT #1735 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
I'm deep into Chapter 24 now. I think I may be able to finish it before the weekend. The end of the rough draft just keeps getting closer, which is good because the amount of known revision work just keeps getting longer and I'm wanting to get started on it.
Gudanov - Jun 23, 2009 11:04:48 am PDT #1736 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
My wife wrote a, I guess summary, of my book based on what she's read just to see if she could make it sound interesting.
Aimee Fallon is happy serving in the Imperial Guard of the Empire. What should have been a relatively straightforward mission to kill demons terrorizing a farmstead instead leads to the discovery that the demons are not the problem; they are the manifestation of a far deeper, far graver problem threatening the survival of humanity: the Dead Mountain.
Forced to flee in the night, Aimee and the group must travel through the Wild, a vast territory populated by demons, strange twisted beings and hostile elves. Along the journey, Aimee is betrayed by her lover to a thief and assasin, Holly. As they approach the Dead Mountain, Aimee is left for dead by one of the group who is secretly determined to harness the power of the Dead Mountain rather than shut it down.
Alone and injured, Aimee is found by an Elven prince and, during the time it takes her to recover, she and the prince fall in love in a forbidden relationship, a capital offense among the Elves.
Aimee is discovered by the prince's sister, who then determines to kill Aimee. Aimee is rescued by Holly. Together this unlikely pair must make their way to the Dead Mountain to confront the traitor in their group, end the threat of Dead Mountain and save humanity.
It's very interesting to see this from her perspective. It's also interesting to see how massively far things have emerged from my original plan. Most of the characters in the summary didn't exist in my original plan and one of them didn't exist until I already started the rough draft. I'm still not entirely sure I'm going to keep all the character names I have, but it's hard to change them after 138,000 words. Not from a technical point, from a mental point.
I'd want to add about 2,000 words to that summary, but then it isn't exactly a summary anymore.
Barb - Jun 23, 2009 11:22:41 am PDT #1737 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
Gud, you add about 2K words, you have more of a synopsis. What your wife wrote is more of a back cover blurb. It's all good.
Oy, I'm getting ready to dive back into revisions on Carmen. Again. With an eye towards character development. Which is daunting when you're looking at a fifth... sixth? revision. I know these damned characters-- now I just have to get more of it on the page.
And hope it doesn't suck.
Gudanov - Jun 23, 2009 11:26:49 am PDT #1738 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
What your wife wrote is more of a back cover blurb. It's all good.
I had fun reading it, but it also sounded kinda hokey to me. Then again the back cover of almost any fantasy or science fiction book sounds hokey to me.