No, it's shiny! I like to meet new people. They've all got stories...

Kaylee ,'Serenity'


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 - Aug 05, 2010 6:42:28 am PDT #3479 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping

I have eased up on what I wanted to get down to. Originally it was 120k, then 122k, then 123k, but now I'm just shooting for under 125k.

I'm pretty much done with outright cutting now. I did also add a few things during this shrinking process because they felt like they needed adding. I think natural tightening will get me the last 2-3k to get under 125k total.

But I'm sure you're right, you know immeasurably more than I do. Now that I'm not at 153k, it's all going to be up to making it clean, fixing the problems found by feedback (at least the ones I think are legit), and hoping it manages to find someone who likes the style which is sort of epic fantasy with juiced up pacing.


Amy - Aug 05, 2010 6:47:25 am PDT #3480 of 6693
Because books.

As someone who used to acquire books, the most important thing for me was an excellent story with characters that felt true. I can fix your semi-colons and your pacing and some other mechanics, but none of that is important, even if it's perfect, if the story doesn't really grab me.


Gudanov - Aug 05, 2010 7:05:47 am PDT #3481 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping

Well, I like the story. Though I think I'd like it even better if I didn't know everything that was going to happen.


Topic!Cindy - Aug 05, 2010 10:40:42 am PDT #3482 of 6693
What is even happening?

Oh that's cute. You need your own spoiler font for your thoughts.


Gudanov - Aug 05, 2010 12:59:39 pm PDT #3483 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping

I totally do.

This is fun, find out who you write like:

[link]

For my novel I get Robert Foster Wallace (shrug) whoever he is. My short story gets William Gibson which is awesome.


§ ita § - Aug 05, 2010 2:43:36 pm PDT #3484 of 6693
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Apparently that I Write Like tool is just a page hit generator that doesn't actually do anything in the background.


Gudanov - Aug 05, 2010 5:19:56 pm PDT #3485 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping

Hmm... I never thought it was something to be taken seriously, but there's a little thing on how it supposedly works (basically like a spam filter).

[link]


Topic!Cindy - Aug 05, 2010 8:21:03 pm PDT #3486 of 6693
What is even happening?

I did that a week or two ago. When I pasted a Lost recap into that, I got Joyce, which is way too apt for a page hit generator (not that I'm anything approaching Joyce, but the nature of recapping + the nature of Lost is very Joycian). When I pasted fic into it, I got Atwood (Buffy fic) and the guy who wrote Fight Club, whose name I'm too lazy to Google (VM fic). I understand Atwood got Stephen King, which tickles me.

eta the reason I really posted

This morning, I had to run to the store really early. I saw a man and he spawned a whole book in my head (not like that; he wasn't particularly hot or anything). I'm going to sleep now and am praying I get a Stephanie Meyer-esque dream of the whole damn story, because thinking is hard. Heck, learning enough about my Macbook to set up the document was hard enough.


Amy - Aug 06, 2010 7:34:02 am PDT #3487 of 6693
Because books.

Hey, Cindy, did you ever get the email I sent?


Topic!Cindy - Aug 06, 2010 1:26:05 pm PDT #3488 of 6693
What is even happening?

Oh Amy, I did and totally spaced on it. I'll reply right now. Thank you!