... now I have a new nightmare.
you and me both, Todd.
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.
hippocampus - Nov 16, 2010 4:42:14 pm PST #3730 of 6706
not your mom's socks.
Wolfram - Nov 17, 2010 2:10:38 pm PST #3731 of 6706
Visilurking
Indirection
One labcoat was shouting numbers, while another handed various shiny items to a third. Something kept beeping. Shifting white figures huddled over her, on the inside of the pale blue partitions. I strained to see my wife, but could only glimpse tiny swatches of paisley hospital garb. I sat and waited for someone to tell me what to do.
I was handed the baby. Swaddled, with eyes half-open. I looked up to catch the younger nurse looking away. The doctor came over to say she was so sorry. I nodded and waited for someone to tell me what to do.
erikaj - Nov 18, 2010 10:04:51 am PST #3732 of 6706
Always Anti-fascist!
Chapters: Should I think long or short or what?
Gudanov - Nov 18, 2010 10:12:57 am PST #3733 of 6706
Coding and Sleeping
I don't think there's a right size for a chapter. Long enough to end in places that make the reader want to say "Okay, one more chapter."
erikaj - Nov 18, 2010 10:24:59 am PST #3734 of 6706
Always Anti-fascist!
I don't know where that is.
Amy - Nov 18, 2010 10:29:56 am PST #3735 of 6706
Because books.
A chapter's sort of like a paragraph. You want it to be one logical, complete thought.
erikaj - Nov 18, 2010 10:42:04 am PST #3736 of 6706
Always Anti-fascist!
Ok, something to keep in mind. Maybe I should write it and break it up later...maybe people with more sequential minds don't have to do that, but it might be an LD thing.
hippocampus - Nov 18, 2010 11:33:22 am PST #3737 of 6706
not your mom's socks.
Wolfram, that's intense!
Typo Boy - Nov 21, 2010 7:30:49 pm PST #3738 of 6706
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.
I have never seen the Vampire Diaries, but I think the talk about it here kind of seeped into me by osmosis. So not fan-fiction, but I think in the spirit of the show. Sung to the tune of "The Lady is a Tramp". And oh yes I did
The Lady is a Vamp
She knows liquid diets are good for her weight,
Eats boors who enter the theater late
Opposes long lives for people she hates.
That's why the lady is a vamp!
She's never worked nor coaxed nor complained.
Her lovers end with bodies and bank accounts drained.
Their deaths leave her completely unpained.
That's why the lady is a vamp!
She loves the fresh night wind in her hair,
Life without care.
She's cold, but its OK.
She hates sunlight, garlic and real silverware.
That's why the lady is a vamp!
She hates thugs armed with long wooden stakes.
Priests with large crosses give her the shakes.
She keeps native earth in all her estates!
That's why the lady is a vamp!
Gudanov - Nov 23, 2010 6:25:44 am PST #3739 of 6706
Coding and Sleeping
Congratulations on release day, Barb!