I am not a hack. I can finish this book. I am not a hack. I can finish this book.
Oh dear. I think I am broken.
Xander: How? What? How? Giles: Three excellent questions.
Xander/Giles ,'Never Leave Me'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
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Allyson - Aug 04, 2009 11:15:18 am PDT #1922 of 6690
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Laura - Aug 04, 2009 11:25:26 am PDT #1923 of 6690
Our wings are not tired.
Allyson is not a hack. She can finish this book.
Gudanov - Aug 04, 2009 11:25:50 am PDT #1924 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
I concur.
Beverly - Aug 04, 2009 11:28:19 am PDT #1925 of 6690
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Far from a hack, Allyson. You can finish that book. Do you need a reader? I can be late getting back to you, too!
erikaj - Aug 04, 2009 11:37:13 am PDT #1926 of 6690
Always Anti-fascist!
I am a hack AND broken. I win?
Barb - Aug 04, 2009 11:52:06 am PDT #1927 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
I finished revised chapter 6 . . . and fail. I had to dump the whole thing. Try again tonight.
I do hope that by "dump the whole thing" you mean, "copied it into a file labeled 'Deleted scenes/chapters' and saved it because you never know when it can come in HANDY."
::ahem::
I may be a bit testy about these things.
And dammit, I'm not a hack-- publishing's just stupid.
Gudanov - Aug 04, 2009 12:00:52 pm PDT #1928 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
I do hope that by "dump the whole thing" you mean, "copied it into a file labeled 'Deleted scenes/chapters' and saved it because you never know when it can come in HANDY."
Probably not a bad idea, but I'm pretty sure this won't come in handy. The chapter turned into a pile of things that have to happen and stuff that needs to get conveyed with some stilted dialogue and clunky narrative to paste it together. It turned out icky. I tried to spice it up by moving another event forward, but it fell flat. I'm going to chop it up, redistribute, and flush the paste.
Barb - Aug 04, 2009 12:03:50 pm PDT #1929 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
Dude, save EVERYTHING. I'm serious.
Allyson - Aug 04, 2009 12:05:12 pm PDT #1930 of 6690
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Have to rip out the co-author's chapters and start from scratch. They just didn't cut it. I have no idea how to tell him this, but I figured out what to do, and need to get it done. I've been able to really strengthen the backbone, give the hero a crystal clear objective, and now I'm at the part where I just need to expand two chapters, cut the three that blow, fold in his way home, and get him there.
I just feel shaken. These are the never-ending edits, and every time I read through a chapter for the umpteenth time, the crappier it reads to me.
And I think, "I wrote this crap?"
And i did. I wrote this crap.
Gudanov - Aug 04, 2009 12:05:30 pm PDT #1931 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Overall I'm happy with the revision so far. I've down 6,000 words mostly by cutting loads of exposition delivered via dialogue. So, as can be imagined, vast improvement.