Woo, Allyson! And to Plus One Publishing, this should be good for both!
(X-posted with Natter)
Zoe: Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity? Wash: You're pretty much down to ritual suicide, lambie-toes.
'War Stories'
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.
-t - May 03, 2010 2:06:55 pm PDT #3310 of 6693
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Gudanov - May 04, 2010 5:50:09 am PDT #3311 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
Very little progress as a result of spending entirely too much time on the Time-Warner tech-support line.
I've started into chapter 12 of 67 and I'm down 6,000 words.
Gudanov - May 04, 2010 6:44:53 am PDT #3312 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
I'm also getting concerned that chapters 35-67 are considerably weaker than 1-34 though I pretty much only have my own opinion on that. One problem with being the author is that I don't really know how it reads without knowing everything that is going to happen.
Barb - May 04, 2010 9:54:52 am PDT #3313 of 6693
“Not dead yet!”
I'm getting a slight perverse amusement that the one love scene in this manuscript is the least marked up of any.
Either I'm really good or the CE just sort of skimmed on past...
Gudanov - May 04, 2010 5:25:43 pm PDT #3314 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
I'm mostly cutting and rephrasing and not trying to fix the finer points, but already I'm starting to fear punctuation.
Gudanov - May 05, 2010 5:06:53 am PDT #3315 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
I did a bit of editing and added a blog post with an example of my edits. The next couple of posts will be explaining why I made the edits with the caveat that I am far from an expert, though I have learned tons since I started.
It's going to be a long time before I'm done yet.
Gudanov - May 06, 2010 4:55:42 am PDT #3316 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
I did another blog post (number 100) and more editing. I'm grinding my way through chapter 12 right now, still losing words.
Gudanov - May 07, 2010 8:22:39 am PDT #3317 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
I didn't have much time to work on it yesterday, so I'm still editing chapter 12.
Also, I'm trying to find a chunk I can cut out of the story, but that's proving hard. I've noted a few scenes that could be axed, but everything seems interconnected so it's hard to find a chunk. Maybe cutting a few scenes here and there and shortening up excessively long scenes (like one in Chapter 67 which I wanted to keep mentally speeding up when I listened to it).
At the moment I'm feeling encouraged and discouraged both. It seems like people like my MC, Aimee. My original MC, Curtis also appears pretty well liked. I'm a bit concerned about the MC's love interest, but there's not much data on him yet. The MC's sidekick seems to be invoking reactions I'm hoping for. And the big twist in the middle seems sufficiently shocking. On the discouraging front, I don't know about my description and detail, along with some other things.
Barb - May 07, 2010 1:43:55 pm PDT #3318 of 6693
“Not dead yet!”
DONE!
Gudanov - May 07, 2010 1:59:06 pm PDT #3319 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
Congrats!!