Thanks. It's exciting to get past another step.
Spike: You pissed in the Big Man's Chair? That's fantastic! Gunn: Spike, can you please turn off that warm fuzzy? Spike: What, the Lorne thing? Worn off. I just think that's bloody fabulous.
'Life of the Party'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
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Gudanov - Mar 29, 2010 9:14:53 am PDT #3198 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
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?
Gudanov - Mar 30, 2010 5:36:22 am PDT #3202 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
I got through two chapters of clean-up. I've got three more chapters and an epilogue before I can call this revision truly done.
I've been listening to a new audiobook lately, and OMG, the number of '...Dude said [adverb]' attributions is insane, they're everywhere. Not doing that is like rule one of attributions. Writing has definitely changed by sensitivity to such things while reading.
Gudanov - Mar 31, 2010 4:20:40 am PDT #3203 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
It's official. I'm done with the revision 1 file. From now on I'll be working on the revision 2 file.
Another milestone down.
Gudanov - Mar 31, 2010 6:03:48 am PDT #3204 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
Liese, did you want me to send book two? If so when? It's 170k compressed.
Liese S. - Mar 31, 2010 6:06:46 am PDT #3205 of 6693
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yup! Now`s good. I`m on the road home. I got swallowed by board meeting prep but should finish up your book 1 comments when I get home.
Gudanov - Mar 31, 2010 6:12:29 am PDT #3206 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
Sent. Thanks for taking a look, I really appreciate since I'm coming up to scene chopping time.
On the way to work I think I figured out how to save a valuable scene from a sequence that will get chopped.
Gudanov - Apr 01, 2010 4:58:28 am PDT #3207 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
I'm outlining now, I'm working out some potential (shorter) replacement sequences for sections that might be cut. The first one is pretty definite, I'm going to cut some out of the opening chapters to speed up the plot out of the gate.