I'm so excited: there are now 25 people who may want to take part in my pilot research. This is fab (and terrifying). I have to get my preliminary research design off the ground soon. I need to decide if I'm turning this stage of the research into an article (or some other publication form), or if I'm waiting till I've done some PhD work.
My heart expands / 'tis grown a bulge in't / inspired by / your beauty effulgent.
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Mar 02, 2010 12:58:21 am PST #3119 of 6692
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Gudanov - Mar 02, 2010 6:22:46 am PST #3120 of 6692
Coding and Sleeping
Excellent job rounding up victims Seeksa!
I'm still working on 55. I added a scene, so I'm the middle of that. I just need to bring this conversation in for a landing.
By the time I'm done with this chapter it's going to be unusually long, so I'll probably split it.
Barb - Mar 02, 2010 6:50:22 am PST #3121 of 6692
“Not dead yet!”
Well, wrote intro to new story yesterday.
CP deemed it hooky and is vastly amused at my trip to the dark side. Lewis called it "creepy" which, considering his particular reading background, I take as a great compliment.
Beverly - Mar 02, 2010 8:44:52 am PST #3122 of 6692
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
We like creepy. Creepy is good!
Barb - Mar 02, 2010 11:24:31 am PST #3123 of 6692
“Not dead yet!”
Agent apparently likes creepy as well. She loves the intro and told me, "You're going to keep going if I have to prod you with a sharpened pencil."
Liese S. - Mar 02, 2010 2:33:02 pm PST #3124 of 6692
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yay, Barb!
GUD! I have finished reading! It is superfabulous. Love. Really. Although you didn`t tell me you were only sending the first book! I need more.
Anyway, I`ll be sending you a more substantial assessment in email tomorrow or Thurs. But I wanted to let you know I couldn`t put it down...err, close the document or whatever is relevant for digital. I think it`s really successful. Furthermore, your edits from the first stuff I saw were strong. It`s a much tighter, more effective read now.
Gudanov - Mar 02, 2010 5:14:16 pm PST #3125 of 6692
Coding and Sleeping
That sounds good, Barb.
Thanks, Liese. I look forward to seeing your assessment! I'm close to getting done with this draft of the second book. I thought I'd be done by now, but I got stuck and work has been getting in the way.
Gudanov - Mar 03, 2010 5:29:56 am PST #3126 of 6692
Coding and Sleeping
Minor progress on 55, had to work late.
Gudanov - Mar 04, 2010 6:01:11 am PST #3127 of 6692
Coding and Sleeping
I finished 55, but it's on a technicality. The chapter was getting go long that I split it and the part that became 55 was already done. Now I'm working on 56, but it's the same scene. At least I'm just working on finishing it off. Things are complicated between the MC and her love interest, action is so much more straightforward.
So far the script reads nicely, erika. The humor seems like its working. Unfortunately my utter lack of knowledge of the mechanics of scripts and complete lack of knowledge of the show mean my comments are going to be weak. I'll probably just accumulate bits I find funny. It's hard for me to find things that don't work because I don't know anything about the characters.
Amy - Mar 04, 2010 6:04:15 am PST #3128 of 6692
Because books.
Writing update from me: book due April 1, not even close to done, but I'm feeling good about what I'm doing anyway.
And I read Chapter 4 aloud to my writers group last night and they loved it, which was awesome.
Still, many nerves over here. Deadline, I can feel you breathing down my neck ...