I think I'm impatient to get from rewriting everything to refining and polishing. I've learned a lot since I've started. I don't think I have much talent with graceful prose, but it strikes me now that in a novel that's just one component of the whole. There's plotting, dialogue, scene-construction, characterization, and succinctness. I've started to believe I can produce a decent book despite not being a great wordsmith.
Where's the praising and extolling of my virtues? Where's the love?
Host ,'Not Fade Away'
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.
Gudanov - Mar 26, 2010 10:09:34 am PDT #3192 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
Barb - Mar 26, 2010 10:30:54 am PDT #3193 of 6693
“Not dead yet!”
Meanwhile, I just asked my editor for a short extension on my deadline, and am feeling Made of Fail. And waiting for a reply.
Shut up.
You're not Made of Fail. You're trying to give her the best product possible.
So... shut up.
Amy - Mar 26, 2010 10:37:33 am PDT #3194 of 6693
Because books.
I know, it just feels that way.
You want to read what I have so far, just for general impressions?
Barb - Mar 26, 2010 10:47:02 am PDT #3195 of 6693
“Not dead yet!”
You want to read what I have so far, just for general impressions?
Sure, send away.
Gudanov - Mar 29, 2010 5:52:00 am PDT #3196 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
Who has two thumbs and a completed revision?
Okay, I still have a little clean-up and read-through to do on the final chapters and the epilogue, but the rewriting is done for this round.
Now for editing, chopping, some new scenes in places, adverb killing, and other fun things.
-t - Mar 29, 2010 7:07:39 am PDT #3197 of 6693
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Way to go, Gudanov!
Gudanov - Mar 29, 2010 9:14:53 am PDT #3198 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
Thanks. It's exciting to get past another step.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Mar 29, 2010 12:12:20 pm PDT #3199 of 6693
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Nice one, Gudanov.
Gudanov - Mar 29, 2010 12:52:12 pm PDT #3200 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
The one big downer is the size, 154k. It's a bit long for one book and a bit short for two. I think I'm going to try for one book again. Between chopping and tightening maybe I can whack 40k then figure another 10k of scenes to replace some of the chopped sections. It'll be tough, but I figure it'll be better to shrink toward a target than expand toward a target.
erikaj - Mar 29, 2010 1:19:57 pm PDT #3201 of 6693
Always Anti-fascist!
Anybody want to help me get my script to 30 pages? Of course, I should probably write it out all the way... Why must I always write so long?