Go you, Holli!
I'm enjoying the stories you linked for download the other day, by the way. Well, I've just read the first one thus far, but I quite liked it and am looking forward to the rest
Now we're saving a vampire from vampires. I got two words for that -- Nuh and uh.
Gunn ,'Underneath'
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.
-t - Dec 23, 2010 5:07:50 pm PST #3791 of 6692
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Holli - Dec 23, 2010 5:16:41 pm PST #3792 of 6692
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
Oh, I'm glad you like it! Those stories were kind of my warm-up for finishing the novel.
sj - Dec 23, 2010 6:49:30 pm PST #3793 of 6692
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Yay, Holli!
Barb - Dec 24, 2010 6:56:56 am PST #3794 of 6692
“Not dead yet!”
Congrats, Holli! In finishing, you've just done what 99.9% of the people who say they're going to write a novel never actually manage to do! Well done!
Gudanov - Dec 27, 2010 5:52:18 am PST #3795 of 6692
Coding and Sleeping
Congrats Holli!
It looks like next week I'll be sending out my first queries. It's just about game time.
Gudanov - Dec 27, 2010 8:47:23 am PST #3796 of 6692
Coding and Sleeping
Bother, the Sony Reader Store has my short story up, but they've got an author bio for a different person. No, I'm not the person who wrote "Thunderstruck" and "Devil in the White City". Cripes. The pitfalls of using your actual name.
Gudanov - Dec 27, 2010 2:11:54 pm PST #3797 of 6692
Coding and Sleeping
I don't suppose there'd be anyone will to take a peek at the synopsis. It's about 1,100 words or a little under four double-spaced pages. It seems like 3-5 pages of synopsis is all I'll have for most submissions.
Amy - Dec 27, 2010 5:24:27 pm PST #3798 of 6692
Because books.
Go, Holli! What's the novel about?
Gud, I can read your synopsis tomorrow, if you want to send it. Profile address works. I had some thoughts, in the midst of holiday craziness, about your query letter, too, but I don't think I ever posted them. If you want to shoot that along, too, I can feedback that, as well.
Gudanov - Dec 27, 2010 5:29:44 pm PST #3799 of 6692
Coding and Sleeping
That would be awesome, thanks. This synopsis stuff is really hard, at least for me.
Typo Boy - Dec 27, 2010 9:39:37 pm PST #3800 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.
A survey about editing processes for book length manuscripts. Once a full draft is complete I iterate in chunks. That is I will take a chunk, edit it, edit the edited verison, rinse lather repeat until that chunk is done, then move to the rest. I say "chunk" rather than section, because I do it on word length (about 14,000 to 15,000 words) stopping at the end of the logical unit that falls within that range. Reason for that word length is that it is long enough that I am not seeing the same paragraph too often in too short a length of time, and short enough that I can get through it in one sitting without losing concentration. I wonder how common this is. I can easily imagine some people prefer to edit in logical chunks, or even people who edit all the way through from beginning to end before starting the re-edit. I'll bet whether your style is to do many many edits or not affects this. (I tell people I'm not really a writer; I'm a self editor and re-writer.)
Even though I suspect this is something that will vary a lot from person to person, I'm curious as to varying editing styles, and why they work for you if you care to discuss.