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Beverly - Oct 25, 2009 1:53:11 pm PDT #2698 of 6690

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 6690

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 6690

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 6690

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 6690

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 6690

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 6690

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 6690

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 6690

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

New drabble topic: Costumes.

Allyson - Oct 26, 2009 8:27:36 am PDT #2707 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

We're ready to go! I just need to make two changes to some dialogue, and then she'll submit this week (or possibly next if western civilization collapses).

She says it's a good book and can picture people reading it to their kids at night.

This is EXACTLY the sentence I needed to read.

Oh. I'm just so glad to have written another submission-worthy book.

I thought it was a fluke the first time around. Even if I don't make a sale, this was a huge hump to get over for me. I'm so relieved/grateful/teary.

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