Writing a short is turning out to be difficult for me, I keep wanting to add complications to the plot and wanting to expand a couple of the characters.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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 - Jun 10, 2010 6:06:08 am PDT #3423 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
erikaj - Jun 10, 2010 12:49:14 pm PDT #3424 of 6693
Always Anti-fascist!
You guys that said not to throw out my old Novel Bits were right(although I threw out a few) But I am working on that project again now.
Gudanov - Jun 11, 2010 5:33:11 am PDT #3425 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
Excellent!
erikaj - Jun 11, 2010 2:49:08 pm PDT #3426 of 6693
Always Anti-fascist!
I don't know...someday it might be, but I'm trying not to get too hyped...it has sat on my hard drive for two years already. And I've already done that thing, at least twice, where I tell all my friends I wrote The Best Thing Ever, get all excited, spend imaginary money, and end up with it bound by Kinko's and mocking me in my closet. So, maybe it's better if I don't say too much this time.
Gudanov - Jun 14, 2010 12:24:47 pm PDT #3427 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
Well, I hope it goes well.
I'm now revising again and trying to make decisions on what to keep and what to not. It feels like I'll end up with a single book of around 140,000 words or two books of around 70,000 words. In other words, too big or too small.
Atropa - Jun 24, 2010 11:47:09 am PDT #3428 of 6693
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Yesterday was the one year anniversary of the Gothic Charm School book being released!
(I had a faint, silly hope that my agent would call me yesterday with an offer from HarperCollins for the second GCS book, but no. Still no word. Still waiting.)
Connie Neil - Jun 24, 2010 12:20:51 pm PDT #3429 of 6693
brillig
Did you make your advance back, Jilli?
Gudanov - Jun 25, 2010 4:56:28 am PDT #3430 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
Happy GCS anniversary, Jilli!
I have a gameplan now for the rest of Dead Mountain's cutting. It'll get me to 125,000 words if I can carry it out. From there I'm going to count on getting 5% more from more tightening. I'll have to make several cuts that I think will hurt the story, but I don't think there's enough dead wood to avoid it.
Typo Boy - Jun 25, 2010 9:20:08 pm PDT #3431 of 6693
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Instead of cutting into two pieces? I really don't think it makes sense to make cuts you know will hurt the story when you don't have a publisher or agent. And who knows, once you get a publisher or agent maybe they can find a way to help you avoid the cuts. Or find a way to make cuts that don't hurt the story. Why put extra effort into making your story worse? Do you really think lowering the quality to reduce your word count will improve your chances of getting an agent?
Deena - Jun 26, 2010 7:49:59 am PDT #3432 of 6693
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
I'm with Typo. I'd rather publish a brilliant story at 120k than a good one at 100k.