Thanks for the congrats everyone! And Kat, got your email and backflung. Talk about a hard act to follow on the TBR pile!
ETA: And isn't the finish on the book absolutely gorgeous? I love the art department so much!
Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage, and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny.
Oz ,'Beneath You'
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.
Barb - Nov 23, 2010 7:20:46 pm PST #3748 of 6692
“Not dead yet!”
Barb - Nov 29, 2010 12:19:03 pm PST #3749 of 6692
“Not dead yet!”
I'm writing again, thank the gods! And I've got a drabble that's actually from the WIP:
The Blues
Smoky heat and the intricate, meditative twang of a blues progression drifted out as she pushed open the glass-paned door. Quietly, she closed it behind herself and moved to the battered leather recliner set to one side of the pot-bellied woodstove. It was her favorite spot in the room—warm, near a window that gave her good light, and best of all, provided a good vantage point from which she could observe Daddy, his hands moving deliberately over his Gretsch archtop, the raw beauty of the music making her insides hurt—in a good way. Reaching over the arm of the chair, she picked up one of her ever-present sketch pads and a graphite pencil, using light, sure strokes to capture the curve of Daddy's back, the delicate tension in his hands as he coaxed out the sobs and wails that he'd said his Louisiana granddaddy told him made the blues the truest music of the heart.
Gudanov - Nov 29, 2010 1:17:05 pm PST #3750 of 6692
Coding and Sleeping
I'm up to chapter 44 in my current revision. I'm actually going to get this thing all fixed up at some point. Many, many comma splices have been fixed.
Typo Boy - Nov 30, 2010 6:54:52 pm PST #3751 of 6692
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.
78,000 words of 85,000 done. (If it is a bit less, great, but for me upper not lower limits are what I struggle with.) Unfortunately, one of the unfinished chapters is at the beginning which is delaying it getting out to beta readers. Instead of first section done mid-Nov, it will be an almost complete work out in mid-Dec. I have one chapter to write, one to heavily revise, and one Appendix to completely rewrite. Still good progress. And I finally got the stuff I needed via interlibrary loan to write that early chapter.
Gudanov - Dec 01, 2010 5:56:40 am PST #3752 of 6692
Coding and Sleeping
It sounds like you're making great progress there.
erikaj - Dec 01, 2010 10:11:42 am PST #3753 of 6692
Always Anti-fascist!
If anyone wants to beta about fifty pages of a mystery for me, I'd be grateful.
Typo Boy - Dec 01, 2010 10:16:36 am PST #3754 of 6692
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'm going to be stuck in a waiting room for routine med stuff today, so send it along and I'll give a quick beta.
erikaj - Dec 01, 2010 11:05:43 am PST #3755 of 6692
Always Anti-fascist!
It's a big mess...It's a NaNo so I did it quick and dirty. Not apologizing...just, you know.
Holli - Dec 02, 2010 9:18:12 am PST #3756 of 6692
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
If anyone's interested, I made a little ebook of some short stories I wrote. It's called "four love stories, and a robot" and is available here.
Gudanov - Dec 02, 2010 9:32:11 am PST #3757 of 6692
Coding and Sleeping
Cool. Something for my E-reader, it's been hungry for new content.