I'd help with edit, Amy.
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.
Yay, Plei! And Deena!
We need to actually concense on this, though. Allyson?
We do need to concense.
So far we have some hats in the ring, and a general idea of theme. I shall go through the responses and see what we have.
I got through chapter six in my Edmund removing adventure. Hopefully seven and eight will be tonight. Eight will be the most difficult chapter as far as Edmund removal goes. Nine, ten, and eleven should be easy though.
Feeling in mid-writing that something I'm doing sucks out loud is no guarantee of real suckage, right? Cause I'm sort of having a Billy Walsh moment right now.
Feeling in mid-writing that something I'm doing sucks out loud
I think that is called normal.
Sorry I flaked. Had an actual date.
Will check through and post at lunchtime. Would someone contact Deb and see if she's in for a short story?
I emailed Deb, she'd be happy to contribute.
I got through Edmund extracting in 7 and 8. I thought 8 would be the tough chapter for doing that, but NSM. Now I realize that 9 is the more complicated one because the character that fills Edmund's role in 8 makes a decision in 9 that will have an impact on his relationship with the main character. When it was Edmund making the decision, it didn't really matter, but now it does and I have do decide what to do with it. So more thinking and work, but I feel like it's confirmation that taking out Edmund is the right thing to do.
I finally heard from beta exchange person 1. She said she liked chapter 3. Of course I've changed the chapter a lot since I mailed it to her, but it's still nice to hear. I think a couple of comments are still applicable. Beta exchange person 2 did not like chapter 3 very much (nice to hear too, just in a different way), it's interesting to hear contrasting opinions. That reminds me that I have a 4,500 word chapter to critique by the end of the weekend.