I've gotta say I love the way my name looks next to "and I'm a reporter for..."
Nice one!
Overwhelming? How much more than whelming would that be exactly?
Anya ,'Touched'
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) - Apr 13, 2010 7:47:24 am PDT #3230 of 6693
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
-t - Apr 13, 2010 10:44:24 am PDT #3231 of 6693
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Sexy!
erikaj - Apr 13, 2010 11:05:34 am PDT #3232 of 6693
Always Anti-fascist!
Which one? Although I probably shouldn't brag till my source gets back to me. Which she hasn't, which gives me plenty of ways to continue being the Johnny Drama of the media world.
Atropa - Apr 13, 2010 9:50:39 pm PDT #3233 of 6693
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I just sent the final (I hope!) version of the proposal for Gothic Charm School 2 to my agent. Everyone cross your fingers that (1) my agent doesn't think I need to do any more tweaks, and (2) that HarperCollins says "Why yes, let's publish another book by that nice Goth girl".
Gudanov - Apr 14, 2010 5:17:21 am PDT #3234 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
Good luck Jilli!
I'm about to close up the hole left by my first major plot cut. Good bye Park District, Church Archives, Diane, Jon, and the collapsing tunnel.
Then I'm taking a break from new content and working on cutting out wordiness, repetition, and unnecessary narrative.
Connie Neil - Apr 14, 2010 11:40:21 am PDT #3235 of 6693
brillig
I know this thread is for original writing, but I'm so happy to be writing anything at all at the moment that I'm going to share my cautious glee at having a fic open and actually adding to it.
I wish I understood my brain. But at least it's poking its writing nose out of its lair again. Next step, learning how to lead it in the direction I want it to go rather than learning how to stay on and make something useful out of its ramblings. I'm thrilled that it's starting to ramble, but I'd really like to ramble in a specific direction.
Gudanov - Apr 14, 2010 12:09:34 pm PDT #3236 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
I hope your writing nose leads you well.
Gudanov - Apr 15, 2010 6:10:09 am PDT #3237 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
I've started pulling out words and rephrasing some of the clunkiest language. Mostly I'm about cutting words right now, polishing will come later.
Gudanov - Apr 16, 2010 5:37:54 am PDT #3238 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
Editing away, though I didn't do much last night due to having to do the PTA newsletter. I starting again to wonder if chapter 1 and 2 should be combined once more. Chapter 1 is really shrinking under the weight of word removal.
Something else I'm doing is changing all my italicized text to a style instead of using formatting. I can't believe I was dumb enough to not do that in the first place, I almost always use styles for my formatting.
Gudanov - Apr 19, 2010 7:01:41 am PDT #3239 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
I didn't have a lot of time this weekend, but I did do some editing in the early chapters. The word count in what used to be chapters 1-7 has gone from 14,500 to 10,800. I did have time to read chapters 1 and 2 aloud to my wife and eliminated some awkward places and a couple of errors introduced by editing. I have a new respect for how easy it is to create continuity errors while editing.