Jayne ,'Serenity'
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Drabble. Attribution questionable.
Practical
Your friend M. built a robot army. You made a Kleener, with vacuum attachment, duster-arm, and cooking unit. You drew a picture of it standing next to M.s' robot army. "Great idea to draw his robots small enough that you could fit it all on the same page," I said.
You smiled. "Mine is 50 times bigger, so I can vacuum his up and win. Then we can eat."
Gak-
I'm stuck.
I was cruising along pretty nicely on Dorian and I came to the end of a scene and now I have no idea what the next scene should be. I still have one major POV character who should be introduced, but I'm not quite sure this is where he should be intro'd yet.
Gak.
Sox, your drabble is wildly surreal.
Yeah, I'm doing Script Frenzy. Why? Because I'm just starting a new job with tons of responsibility and I'm in counseling. So why the hell not?
Here's my draft logline for the movie Lady Radium. Let me know what you think.
Lovestruck nuclear physicists whose superpowered alter egos are mortal enemies must work together to stop ex-Nazi Objectivists in this atomic age romance.
General creative advice. I think it's pretty interesting. And liberating.
That's a really good piece, ita. Thanks. The "nothing is new" alone is so worth remembering.
Here's my draft logline for the movie Lady Radium. Let me know what you think.
It's a great logline. And it sounds like it could be a lot of fun.
The "nothing is new" alone is so worth remembering.
Amen.
And Raq, the logline also falls under surreal- in a fun, twisty sort of way.
ita, thank you for linking to that piece. Lots of good advice there.
Yes, my editor. You do actually have to make a decision. "Read your contract" tells me nothing. My contract does not give a set number of illustrations I can include. It says I need approval for ANY illustrations. I already have 16 tables and two charts, so I may well have exceeded the limit you have let me know is there, but won't put a number on. If that has happened, I will find a way to cut back. But at this point I need to know if I have to do that so you actually have to give me a number. (Or a size limit, or some metric.)I will do what I need to do whether or not I like it. But I need to know the requirements I am meeting.
Typo, you need to email her with exactly those questions. If your contract doesn't specify a top number of illustrations, then she needs to tell you how many is acceptable, simple as that.
Great piece in Salon about author self-promotion.