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Amy - Oct 25, 2009 12:53:34 pm PDT #2697 of 6705

Because books.

I'm pretty lazy -- I like to know just enough about something to write it believably. Which is why I'll probably never tackle something like writing a guy on an oil rig. Or a sixteenth-century geisha.

I also cheat like mad -- for historical details I like to get an overall sense of a time, and for that movies like The Age of Innocence or even Bram Stoker's Dracula were what I looked at when I was beginning the (now shelved) vampire book.

Beverly - Oct 25, 2009 1:53:11 pm PDT #2698 of 6705

Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Barb beat me to the every.shiny.detail thing (and also the Gabaldon thing. Although for my favorites of hers, the first two, she had never been to Scotland).

I do compromise, though. For a tale set in the twelfth century I used a dictionary and thesaurus published in the 1950s. It lent just enough of an antiquated, out-of-time air to the story without making it period-perfect and thus not understandable to present day readers. Tricks. Some of them work.

erikaj - Oct 25, 2009 1:58:05 pm PDT #2699 of 6705

Always Anti-fascist!

Would anybody be interested in taking a look at a crime story and telling me where I went wrong with it? Because I think I did, but it would be hard to fix without knowing which things.

-t - Oct 25, 2009 3:01:18 pm PDT #2700 of 6705

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

How long is it, erika?

erikaj - Oct 25, 2009 3:41:52 pm PDT #2701 of 6705

Always Anti-fascist!

Under 3,000, words -t. Thanks. Was aiming at a sort of Tarentino meets Laura Lippman thing, but I guess it didn't land.

-t - Oct 25, 2009 4:32:36 pm PDT #2702 of 6705

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I'll give it a look if you don't mind an almost completely uninformed opinion. Profile addy is good.

Gudanov - Oct 25, 2009 4:44:33 pm PDT #2703 of 6705

Coding and Sleeping

I'm not a crime fic dude, but I'll take a look at it if you want. Profile address is fine.

For a tale set in the twelfth century I used a dictionary and thesaurus published in the 1950s.

That's kinda brilliant.

erikaj - Oct 25, 2009 6:06:36 pm PDT #2704 of 6705

Always Anti-fascist!

Well, I don't think the problems are very genre-related...maybe, but I'll deal with the non-specific ones first.

Gudanov - Oct 26, 2009 5:38:28 am PDT #2705 of 6705

Coding and Sleeping

Despite a busy weekend with a trick-or-treating event, house painting, pumpkin carving, and tearing apart my computer to rebuild it better, stronger, faster, I managed to get a big of work in. I finished off my critique and started up on chapter 23.

I'm not happy with the way 23 is starting though, I'm burning up too many words with the all new part that starts off the chapter.

sj - Oct 26, 2009 7:21:51 am PDT #2706 of 6705

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

New drabble topic: Costumes.

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