... aaaand done. Off the story goes to the beta readers. If GoogleDocs starts behaving, that is.
Don't you just love this party? Everything's so fancy, and there's some kind of hot cheese over there.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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.
Atropa - Sep 01, 2009 10:29:42 pm PDT #2098 of 6690
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Allyson - Sep 02, 2009 2:46:30 am PDT #2099 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
I've never tried google docs for my betas...how does this magical thing work?
amych - Sep 02, 2009 3:22:45 am PDT #2100 of 6690
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Clicky the linky, log in to google, edit as usual but with no emailing pages back and forth. It's very easy.
Gudanov - Sep 02, 2009 6:17:12 am PDT #2101 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Does Google docs track changes?
Chipping away at revised chapter 15 now. I keep wanting to get to the next chapter of the rough draft, then when I get there I want to get to the next one.
I'm gonna try to really condense the next two chapters of the rough draft to tighten things up, but the days of throwing out page after page from the rough draft may be ending. There is a lot less unneeded junk now.
Four more rough draft chapters, two of them short, and I'll hit the middle part of the story where the plot goes into overdrive. I'm looking forward to getting there.
CaBil - Sep 02, 2009 9:12:46 am PDT #2102 of 6690
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Gudanov, it can track changes under 'revision history' in Tools
Gudanov - Sep 02, 2009 9:40:06 am PDT #2103 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Nifty, it's nice to know that Google docs does that. It doesn't sound as hidden as OpenOffice's. Not that I'm going to shift to using something other than MS Word.
I may pick up another beta swap reader. She approached me about it, but is concerned about the size of my book. We shall see.
I don't want to get over-committed, but I appear to be going along about an order of magnitude faster than my current beta swap partner.
Gudanov - Sep 02, 2009 10:11:06 am PDT #2104 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Speaking of over commitment I'm starting to really kick around an idea for another unrelated book. Must. finish. current. book.
Gudanov - Sep 02, 2009 6:51:10 pm PDT #2105 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Why is current chapter going so slow? Maybe I'm trying to compress too many little plot points into too few words.
Barb - Sep 02, 2009 7:31:30 pm PDT #2106 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
Sometimes, writing by hand's just the only way to break through a block.
My hands hurt, but I've got a better handle on what I'm doing.
I think.
Gudanov - Sep 03, 2009 5:53:19 am PDT #2107 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
That sounds promising. I hope you really do have the handle.
I hope to bludgeon my way through revised chapter 15 tonight, or at least the tricky part of it.
I have run into another dilemma. I have a female protagonist. In the rough draft there are a total of two guys who take an interest in her, though there is never any competition. Is adding another too much? Nothing actually ever comes of it and it would make a couple of things work nicely with regard to his behavior. I worry that is too many though, no matter how it's handled. There are maybe 11 significant male characters in the story. Maybe I should just go with it and see what beta readers think.