Barb, Amy, can I have new calves? Cause I really think I could get better bylines if I were buff. Did you eat today? Take your supplements? (/Drama)
Inara: You don't have to die alone. Mal: Everybody dies alone.
'Out Of Gas'
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.
erikaj - Oct 21, 2009 12:35:12 pm PDT #2607 of 6690
Always Anti-fascist!
Amy - Oct 21, 2009 12:43:02 pm PDT #2608 of 6690
Because books.
I think certain areas of publishing are still doing fine, and YA just happens to be one of them. And the areas of publishing that are suffering are the same ones that have been following that curve for a couple of years.
The economy does make a difference, of course, but publishing goes through this all the time. It's very cyclical.
Barb - Oct 21, 2009 12:45:17 pm PDT #2609 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
Publishing is a temperamental bitch on a good day.
Anne W. - Oct 21, 2009 12:49:33 pm PDT #2610 of 6690
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Congratulations to Barb and unofficial congratulations to Amy!
Gudanov - Oct 21, 2009 12:50:29 pm PDT #2611 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
It's wonderful to hear all the good news.
I'm hoping to get to the soul crushing rejection phase at some point. Right now, I'm just trying to find revision time and hoping for feedback when I open up my inbox (alas, none recently).
Allyson - Oct 21, 2009 12:59:00 pm PDT #2612 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
and YA just happens to be one of them
oh please oh please oh please!
Beverly - Oct 21, 2009 5:07:56 pm PDT #2613 of 6690
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Barb! I'm so happy for you! Eeeee!!
Gudanov - Oct 22, 2009 4:47:38 am PDT #2614 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Still on 22, I'm pretty sure I can finish tonight though. Then I need to knock out a critique and it's off to 23. I'm in the fun middle section now. Big events in the plot come pretty much every chapter now.
Gudanov - Oct 22, 2009 5:48:30 am PDT #2615 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Also, I caught up to my current revision location while listening this morning. The last four chapters sounded better, so that's encouraging. As a whole my listening experience has told me it's not there yet, but I'm a long ways from being done revising.
Barb - Oct 22, 2009 6:07:54 am PDT #2616 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
Gud, how distracting has the text to audio voice been for you? I've done it a couple of times with my work when I want to hear specific bits of dialogue, in particular, but no matter how much I play around with the speeds and voices to get something approximating what I hear in my head, it's still so obviously a computer voice I wind up focusing on that rather than the words themselves.