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.
Saffron: You're a good man. Mal: You clearly haven't been talking to anyone else on this boat.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
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.
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?
erikaj - May 08, 2011 10:09:06 am PDT #4339 of 6690
Always Anti-fascist!
Yes. (and I probably did it someone early on, too.)
Connie Neil - May 08, 2011 10:13:07 am PDT #4340 of 6690
brillig
I'm thinking of removing him from that mailing group and never responding and letting him think we've emigrated to Tibet or something.
erikaj - May 08, 2011 12:11:09 pm PDT #4341 of 6690
Always Anti-fascist!
"12 Yemen Road, Yemen." You might just tell the guy that it's bad form to send stories unsolicited. I believe Herself let me down gently that way once.