hopes extra hard
The next time you decide to stab me in the back... have the guts to do it to my face.
Mal ,'Ariel'
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.
Allyson - Jan 05, 2010 8:37:46 am PST #2965 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
Beverly - Jan 05, 2010 9:47:51 am PST #2966 of 6690
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Adds dollop--big dollop--of hope.
Atropa - Jan 05, 2010 9:53:19 am PST #2967 of 6690
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Go Sam! Go Sam!
sj - Jan 05, 2010 10:00:01 am PST #2968 of 6690
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Yay, Allyson!
Burrell - Jan 05, 2010 10:10:16 am PST #2969 of 6690
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Yay Allyson! You are totally my hero and inspiration.
Why does writing fiction intimidate me so much?
I don't know but I'm right there with you.
Liese S. - Jan 05, 2010 6:36:34 pm PST #2970 of 6690
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Go bat go! I was updating my bat-loving guitar student on Sam's progress and she is very excited. She hung a bat house this year and is hopeful about having her very own bats soon.
Gudanov - Jan 06, 2010 5:33:54 am PST #2971 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
I didn't have much time last night, but I managed to get a little further through 43. Transferred ownership of a decidedly non-magical ring, now several other little bits to complete.
Gudanov - Jan 06, 2010 9:01:22 am PST #2972 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
I just thought of a very good reason why the members of group B didn't just tromp off to Salvus after things when bad for them. It's better than the original reason and has already been mentioned a couple of chapters ago. Good deal.
Katerina Bee - Jan 06, 2010 2:09:55 pm PST #2973 of 6690
Herding cats for fun
I picked up a book at random because it's called Fiction is Folks by Robert Peck, author of The Day No Pigs Would Die. I love the irreverent style and have found many compelling words of advice and demonstrations about how you can start writing about how your character has a hand with slender fingers, that grip her big darning needle in a tense grip as she prepares to... a) do embroidery; or b) stab her husband in the eye. (I paraphrase).
I'd never thought of writing up a character list and asking myself, what are my characters likes? Dislikes? Main peeves? Favorite dessert? Worst foible?
So all that was food for my thoughts about the Imaginary Pony Farm I've got going out on the Back 40 here in Hayward. Wait till my readers find out that the white pony's best friend is a big fluffy black cat named Mishka. And that the pony farm's Enforcer is actually a tiger that escaped from the zoo, the part about the pirate ship, the part where the story interfaces with historical fiction.
I've got too much plot, I think. But having fun.
Gudanov - Jan 06, 2010 5:08:02 pm PST #2974 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
I've done some of the character write up stuff. I don't think I've done a great job with it though. But I'm not done and that's what revision is for.