Way to go Gud!
Kaylee: H-how did you... g-get on...? Early: Strains the mind a bit, don't it? You think you're all alone. Maybe I come down the chimney, Kaylee. Bring presents to the good girls and boys.
'Objects In Space'
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.
hippocampus - May 04, 2011 2:59:00 am PDT #4334 of 6734
not your mom's socks.
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
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
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
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
"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.
Barb - May 10, 2011 11:49:25 am PDT #4343 of 6734
“Not dead yet!”
I'm honestly considering giving it a go. I have some manuscripts sitting on the hard drive that aren't even going to be traditionally published because they bend so many rules, but I know they're good stories. My one concern is that the market for contemporary realistic fiction in e-publishing isn't quite there the way it is for paranormal.