Easy Bake. Flop-a-palooza. Woosh. Pop. I don't skulk.

Angel ,'Shells'


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.


erikaj - May 18, 2010 11:52:34 am PDT #3397 of 6693
Always Anti-fascist!

We all have our Billy Walsh moments, Gud. (Billy being the insano screenwriter/auteur character from Entourage who goes from day to day sometimes hour to hour thinking "I wrote Mean Streets" or "I wrote shit.") Sometimes I get embarrassed watching him. Despite the drugs and gambling, his thought processes can be all too familiar sometimes.


Gudanov - May 18, 2010 12:02:06 pm PDT #3398 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping

I'm also having a bad couple of days and not a lot of sleep, so it seeps into the hobby as well.


Gudanov - May 20, 2010 10:55:15 am PDT #3399 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping

It's interesting to see all the world-building people go through to write a fantasy novel. I have to admit I sort of went with the make sh*t up as I need it approach. I think there is a lot to be said for intricate world-building, but making sh*t up has certainly helped me save time.


Atropa - May 20, 2010 1:10:43 pm PDT #3400 of 6693
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Next week is BEA, so everyone in publishing will be away.

The week after that, my agent is submitting my proposal for Gothic Charm School 2 to my editor!


Gudanov - May 20, 2010 1:11:47 pm PDT #3401 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping

Good luck!


Barb - May 20, 2010 4:26:36 pm PDT #3402 of 6693
“Not dead yet!”

"She loves New Orleans. The heat and history and dissolute greatness that's slightly shabby and decaying around the edges. It's relentless and primal and everything hedonistic that she's always wanted to be."

Every now and again, I come up with a little bit of something I'm really, really proud of.


Gudanov - May 20, 2010 5:22:28 pm PDT #3403 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping

As you should be.


Gudanov - May 21, 2010 8:51:45 am PDT #3404 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping

Aw man, that post about world-building made me sound like I was saying 'My approach to world-building is soooo much better.' I was more meaning, there are a lot of people out there who make me feel like a real slacker when I look at my one page of notes that's really a list of names so I spell them the same. They will have all the richer worlds than mine, but at least it saved me time.


Connie Neil - May 21, 2010 11:37:06 am PDT #3405 of 6693
brillig

I like kind of a middle road--having some things laid out but being open to the sudden burst of insight that comes about from the plot. I adore when the Scroll of Universal Understanding unrolls itself in the middle of something I'm working on.


Gudanov - May 26, 2010 5:35:07 am PDT #3406 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping

I was doing some editing last night and I came across a line that was a great bit of foreshadowing of what this character would do later, echoing the reasoning he would use for some ominous doings. It was also totally unintentional. Apparently, I do my best foreshadowing by accident.