Unless I'm totally off on my estimated wordcount, I've passed the half-way point on the first draft of Cog and smack in the middle of the big middle story plot events. Progress marches on.
Kaylee: So how many fell madly in love with you and wanted to take you away from all this? Inara: Just the one. I think I'm slipping.
'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.
Gudanov - Apr 07, 2011 5:50:41 am PDT #4264 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Typo Boy - Apr 07, 2011 8:26:28 am PDT #4265 of 6690
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.
Congrats. Have you been keeping on your query letters? Cause trying to get published is part of the process too.
Gudanov - Apr 07, 2011 8:32:30 am PDT #4266 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Yeah, about that, not so much. It's hard to pull away some time right now while the new story is rolling. Since I might be reworking the pitch it's a bit more involved than tweaking the letter for a different agent.
Still, I know I've got to get on it eventually.
Typo Boy - Apr 07, 2011 8:33:05 am PDT #4267 of 6690
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.
Next onerous task day?
Gudanov - Apr 07, 2011 8:35:08 am PDT #4268 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Maybe.
Barb - Apr 07, 2011 10:58:15 am PDT #4269 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
So an editor is interested in the ghost YA but had some suggestions. She talked to my agent yesterday who then passed on the suggestions to me and we talked it out. Now, normally, I'm all "hell, no" about making changes without a contract in place because I've been burned monumentally in the past, however--
These were only suggestions for some cuts on the partial and I'm not so invested in this story that the idea of rearranging things and killing darlings was sending me rushing for the smelling salts. So after I got off the phone with Lovely Agent, I set to work, chopped 2 chapters wholesale, trimmed some fat from other chapters, rearranged the living HELL out of what was there (Chapter 1 is now Chapter 5) and turned it back into my agent less than two hours after our conversation.
Fear me.
(Whether or not it's exactly what the editor was thinking, who knows, but my being able to turn something around so quickly should bode well.)
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Apr 07, 2011 11:12:35 am PDT #4270 of 6690
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I feel like I should go back to Scrivener and figure out how to use it, since so many folks seem to swear by it
I'm just starting to learn to use it, and it's really making a difference. I need to decide whether to move my stuff over from Excel and places. Excel works totally differently from the way my brain does, so it could be worth the effort.
Fear me.
Ooh. I do.
Barb - Apr 07, 2011 11:25:18 am PDT #4271 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
Seska, I gave Scrivener another try and said, sod it-- I just couldn't get behind it, but then I found Story Mill which has some similar attributes to Scrivener, but for me is far more intuitive.
Just an FYI.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Apr 07, 2011 11:42:19 am PDT #4272 of 6690
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
That looks really interesting, Barb, but I can't see a Windows version, or I'd try it out. I'm using the Windows beta of Scrivener.
Barb - Apr 07, 2011 12:04:24 pm PDT #4273 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
Crud-- I wasn't sure if it was a Mac-only app. Pity, because it really is rocking.