Gud - Insent. I don't want you to be slammed.
No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.
Early ,'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 - Aug 03, 2011 3:43:37 am PDT #4537 of 6706
not your mom's socks.
Strix - Aug 03, 2011 6:08:46 am PDT #4538 of 6706
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I'd offer to beta stuff -- next week, though, so this offer might now work.
ION, I am blogging once a day on "Fiction" and it's kicking my ass. But it's like windsprints, except for no running (thank you jesus.)
Yesterday's post was finished at 1:30 am, so it's a little slap-happy, but I am grimly determined to pump out something every day for August. I WILL WRITESERVERE!
It's the top ten ways to make your novel a wallbanger - you know, thrown across the room in disgust: [link]
Toddson - Aug 03, 2011 7:01:54 am PDT #4539 of 6706
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
verb tenses that time-travel more than a Diana Gabaldon heroine
snerk
Gudanov - Aug 03, 2011 7:15:05 am PDT #4540 of 6706
Coding and Sleeping
You've actually run into a published book where a character got referred to by a different names? That seems like a pretty big slip-up.
I came across a place in my rough draft where for one scene I used a completely different name for a character (as opposed to just a different spelling, which, um, I'm discovering needs some work). I was kinda horrified that I did that.
Toddson - Aug 03, 2011 7:30:45 am PDT #4541 of 6706
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
It happens. A lot of people aren't as careful and it seems copy editors should be on the endangered list.
On All About Romance a book was once given an F- grade - it was a western and the hero rode in on a stallion and out on a gelding.
Gudanov - Aug 03, 2011 7:41:07 am PDT #4542 of 6706
Coding and Sleeping
it was a western and the hero rode in on a stallion and out on a gelding.
Well, it's more believable than the other way around.
Toddson - Aug 03, 2011 7:42:56 am PDT #4543 of 6706
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
The reviewers comment: "poor horsie!"
Strix - Aug 03, 2011 9:33:31 am PDT #4544 of 6706
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Heh, thanks, Toddson! But copy editors should be on the endangered list -- not ALL of us!!
Gud, You've actually run into a published book where a character got referred to by a different names? That seems like a pretty big slip-up.
A couple of times, actually -- don't ask for cites, but now, of course it'll drive me crazy till I can remember!
And I totally get draft slip-ups -- that's natural, and why multiple eyes are so important.
But when massive errors make it past writers, editors, line edits and copyeditors, it sets me hissing like an affronted cat.
Typo Boy - Aug 03, 2011 10:46:50 am PDT #4545 of 6706
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.
You've actually run into a published book where a character got referred to by a different names?
See also 19th century Russian novels.
Volans - Aug 03, 2011 11:13:41 am PDT #4546 of 6706
move out and draw fire
One of the ones I remember was a Sookie Stackhouse book. I can't remember the character's name, some dude in town, but his facial hair was described in detail and his last name was Hunter.
About 2/3 of the way in, his first name suddenly changed from Bob or whatever to "Catfish."
So I figured she'd been basing the character on Catfish Hunter and hadn't caught all the uses of the name with global search-and-replace.