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.
Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!
Xander ,'Chosen'
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 - May 03, 2011 6:26:03 pm PDT #4333 of 6734
Coding and Sleeping
hippocampus - May 04, 2011 2:59:00 am PDT #4334 of 6734
not your mom's socks.
Way to go Gud!
Amy - May 04, 2011 9:41:11 am PDT #4335 of 6734
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 6734
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 6734
"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 6734
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 6734
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Yes. (and I probably did it someone early on, too.)
Connie Neil - May 08, 2011 10:13:07 am PDT #4340 of 6734
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 6734
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
"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.
Amy - May 09, 2011 9:42:50 am PDT #4342 of 6734
Because books.
Another e-publishing story. It's fascinating to watch this trend, but really hard to know which it's going to go in a year or two.