After considering the mountain of revision notes, I think my new goal is finished by Christmas. OTOH, I think I'll have the rough draft done by the middle of July instead of the end. That would be a little under 4 months for the draft and a little over 5 months for the revision. I'm not all that optimistic on the revision schedule though.
Do you know what else has blood in it? Blood.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
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.
Gudanov - Jun 29, 2009 6:06:43 am PDT #1802 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Gudanov - Jun 29, 2009 11:54:08 am PDT #1803 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Last night I wrote the start of Chapter 27. I had this bit of dialogue that I though was pretty good. Today I remembered that the two characters involved don't speak a common language. Dammit.
Atropa - Jun 30, 2009 12:00:09 pm PDT #1804 of 6690
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
(catching up!)
Well, you're a stronger person than I am, Gud. Because I would be all, "Write your own book and stay the hell out of mine." So, um.
Heh. Pete had not read ANY of my book until, erm, the plane ride down to SF on Friday. Because while he would make a fantastic editor (especially a copy editor), I knew that having him offer me feedback while I was writing would be a quick trip to RantyTown for both of us.
Gudanov - Jul 03, 2009 5:35:23 am PDT #1805 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
I had to rip up another part of Chapter 27 right after I wrote it. Some characters were being accepting of something because I wanted them to come across as nice. I decided they had enough reason to not be accepting and being accepting made for a bit of piss poor story. When will Chapter 27 stop kicking my ass?
After 14 straight days of blog posts, I let yesterday get by without one. I blame the lawnmower of doom and another one of its electrical faults.
Gudanov - Jul 05, 2009 1:25:48 pm PDT #1806 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Chapter 27 and 28 have fallen victim to my keyboard now. That's 160,000 words. I'm in the home stretch now.
Gudanov - Jul 05, 2009 5:42:09 pm PDT #1807 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
I do not know what I would do without baby name lists for various countries.
Connie Neil - Jul 06, 2009 6:09:28 am PDT #1808 of 6690
brillig
I do not know what I would do without baby name lists for various countries.
wrod
Fay - Jul 06, 2009 10:00:54 pm PDT #1809 of 6690
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
waves sheepishly
...so I have this dusty manuscript that's been on a back burner for, oh, years, and I decided that this summer I'd finish it, just to show that I can finish the damn thing. I've got several other ideas for original fiction, but I want to finish this, if I can, because even if it turns out not to be publishable, I think I'll learn plenty from DOING it, you know?
I've gone back and poked it with a stick, and I'm happy to find that, yes, I still like the 'verse and the characters - I think it's mostly plotting that I need to get on top of.
Um. So I was wondering if anyone might be inclined to read through 40,000 words of an urban fantasy type thing, and give me their thoughts on whether it's working so far?
Anne W. - Jul 07, 2009 12:54:19 am PDT #1810 of 6690
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Fay, I'd be happy to look at it. I probably won't be able to get to it until this weekend, though.
Fay - Jul 07, 2009 1:36:17 am PDT #1811 of 6690
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Awesomecakes! Thank you! Although - oh, nuts, it's in NeoOffice, not Word - I don't have Word for Mac. So I could maybe cut'n'paste sections into emails?