It's possible that he's in the land of perpetual Wednesday, or the crazy melty land, or you know, the world without shrimp.

Anya ,'Showtime'


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.


erikaj - Apr 29, 2011 7:09:34 am PDT #4329 of 6690
Always Anti-fascist!

Man, Typo, your dreams are so detailed...all I ever get is a train going through a tunnel.


Laga - Apr 29, 2011 1:26:56 pm PDT #4330 of 6690
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I shouldn't have watched Michael Collins before a bunch of royal wedding stuff & then gone to bed tipsy. I dreampt there was a bloody battle in front of Westminster Abbey concerning virginity and wedding rings.


Typo Boy - Apr 29, 2011 9:48:49 pm PDT #4331 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.

Hi Erika. This may be obsolete but is the explanation I was given: all we get during sleep are disconnected images, but we tell ourself stories as we wake up. A longer twilight period between sleeping and waking means more detailed stories.


Typo Boy - Apr 29, 2011 10:36:21 pm PDT #4332 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.

Come to think of it, no great surprise to anyone who has interacted with me that I spend more time in the twilight zone than your average bear.


Gudanov - May 03, 2011 6:26:03 pm PDT #4333 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping

Cog continues to grind away. I just hit the theoretical 2/3 point of the rough draft at 50,000 words. I got derailed when a bunch of bad stuff all happened at once, but I've gotten it going once again.


hippocampus - May 04, 2011 2:59:00 am PDT #4334 of 6690
not your mom's socks.

Way to go Gud!


Amy - May 04, 2011 9:41:11 am PDT #4335 of 6690
Because books.

Good to hear, Gud!

I, on the other hand, am rethinking half of what I have for the book that was already due, and wondering how quickly I can rewrite.


Gudanov - May 04, 2011 5:49:27 pm PDT #4336 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping

I'm in a really fun part of the story where the moral is "Don't make deals with pixies."


Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - May 07, 2011 12:01:52 pm PDT #4337 of 6690
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"

Hee. Should be a tagline.


Connie Neil - May 08, 2011 7:03:16 am PDT #4338 of 6690
brillig

A friend of Hubby's, who is peripherally my friend because, well, Hubby, and whom I haven't seen in probably 5 years, is on a mail group to which I forward job announcements from our friend/landlord who is a contractor for the feds. I'm supposing I must have mentioned fic writing to him, because he just sent me a 250 kb file of Tangled fanfic that he wrote that he wants me to critique.

I don't even want to open the file. I don't know if he can write at all, I've never seen Tangled, and it reveals all sorts of shallow stereotypical thinking about me, but I don't want to read fic from a 40+-year-old man based on a Disney movie.

Has anyone else received requests for critiquing for projects you wish you didn't know existed?