Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Wash ,'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.


zuisa - Dec 07, 2010 6:10:07 am PST #3767 of 6719
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)

I don't think I was really prepared for how dull it has been so far. Though the dullness may be largely because I am not now, nor have I ever been a teenage girl.

I have been a teenage girl, and I still found it dull.

I'm not a writer and I don't pretend to be any great authority on what constitutes good writing, but I definitely don't think that Twilight qualifies. I'm not even sure what compelled me to keep reading (as I have, embarrassingly, read all four) but it was absolutely not the quality of the writing.

And, I'm sure it's been discussed before so I'm sorry to ask again, what what kind of book are you writing?


Gudanov - Dec 07, 2010 6:30:24 am PST #3768 of 6719
Coding and Sleeping

It's a fantasy novel sort of slotting into the epic fantasy subgenre. A fast-paced adventure with a bit of romance showing up as well.


Tom Scola - Dec 07, 2010 11:38:51 am PST #3769 of 6719
hwæt

This is the Writer’s Prayer. This is the Penmonkey’s Paean.


Connie Neil - Dec 07, 2010 12:56:26 pm PST #3770 of 6719
brillig

Thank you, Tom. Please note new tag.

Now I must go print that out and prepare to tell Hubby not to ask silly questions when I tape it up on my desk.


Gudanov - Dec 09, 2010 5:21:15 pm PST #3771 of 6719
Coding and Sleeping

Four days into my misadventure with Twilight, I now hate both main characters.


Amy - Dec 09, 2010 5:37:49 pm PST #3772 of 6719
Because books.

Like all right-thinking people, Gud.


Anne W. - Dec 09, 2010 5:46:05 pm PST #3773 of 6719
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

I'm just surprised it took you that long.


Barb - Dec 09, 2010 6:18:35 pm PST #3774 of 6719
“Not dead yet!”

Dittoing Amy and Anne.


sumi - Dec 10, 2010 5:31:01 am PST #3775 of 6719
Art Crawl!!!

So very true.

And I hate them from the movies because despite my friends' inexplicable fondness for the books, I have managed to avoid them.


Gudanov - Dec 10, 2010 5:37:35 am PST #3776 of 6719
Coding and Sleeping

After the disaster of yesterday's commute, this morning's wasn't too terrible. There are flashes of okay-ness.