'Beneath You'
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
I thought I edited myself into a continuity error yesterday, but it looks like I'm okay. With is good, because my wife delights in catching me in a continuity error. I thing she got me two times in the rough draft.
Actually editing has a terrifying capacity for the generation of continuity errors. Especially for stuff that shows up like twenty chapters later.
I feel like I should give you all my number and you can text me at regular intervals to say, "are you writing? WHY AREN'T YOU WRITING?"
What are you doing posting here? Aren't you supposed to be writing?
I feel like I should give you all my number and you can text me at regular intervals to say, "are you writing? WHY AREN'T YOU WRITING?"
Only if you promise to do the same to me.
I'm rather dubious of the section of dialogue I just inflicted upon my word processor. At least this isn't supposed to be the final revision.
Anybody up for a beta? I've got a 3500 word Star Trek crack!fic up for grabs, if you're in the mood for Kirk/McCoy wedding hijinks.
Maybe I can knock out revised chapter 10 and 11 tonight. They are in the reading over phase. Then I really need to do a bit of work on revised chapter 3 before getting on with 12.
I've been bleeding words like crazy. The end of 10 corresponds to the end of chapter 4 in the draft. My revised word count is about 19,000. The word count in the draft is 29,579. Scenes are going down in flames everywhere.
I think only about three sentences survived chapter 4 more or less intact. It is so much tighter in the revision.
Shoot I just realized there is a continuity error at the end of 9 / beginning of 10. Very minor, but it won't sync up with the end of 10.
I have a massive bookshelf in the same room, but it's not right next to me. My 28" monitor has probably ruined me for using a laptop, especially when revising.
I like the differences -- some spaces are very clean, some are totally cluttered. I'm not counting books as clutter, though.
I like writing on my laptop, but I also started writing longhand, so I'm used to writing wherever I want to. And I still like that.
I actually like writing with headphones on, and in the midst of some kind of activity, like at a bookstore or down on the porch with the kids in and out. When it's too quiet and I'm alone, it's too easy to lose my focus, weirdly.