Way to go Gud!
Mal: Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us? Zoe: Big damn heroes, sir.
'Safe'
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 6706
not your mom's socks.
Amy - May 04, 2011 9:41:11 am PDT #4335 of 6706
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 6706
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 6706
"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 6706
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 6706
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 6706
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 6706
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.
Amy - May 09, 2011 9:42:50 am PDT #4342 of 6706
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 6706
“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.