Hmm. I poked around, ita, and you're right. As usual.
It's just coincidence that the last three people I looked for profile addy's didn't have one, and I assumed I tweaked my CSS wrong.
ASSUMPTIONS. PFFT.
Oh! I know this one! 'Slaying entails certain sacrifices, blah blah blahbity blah, I'm so stuffy, gimme a scone.'
Buffy ,'Help'
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.
Strix - Aug 08, 2011 6:36:04 am PDT #4566 of 6690
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Gudanov - Aug 09, 2011 4:53:39 am PDT #4567 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Oops. My profile addy was turned off. I thought it was on for some reason.
I'm getting close to finishing my revision of chapter 2 (chapters 2 and 3 of the rough draft). Not that anything is really locked down at the moment, just working through the changes I already know I want to make and fixing various things.
hippocampus - Aug 09, 2011 11:51:55 am PDT #4568 of 6690
not your mom's socks.
AUGH how is it that revision is actually weakening this story. That's not supposed to happen.
Gudanov - Aug 09, 2011 5:13:55 pm PDT #4569 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Maybe it'll be like setting a bone, painful at first but necessary to heal.
Nice essay, Erin. I only made a couple of notes, but I really liked the metaphor.
Strix - Aug 10, 2011 7:30:47 am PDT #4570 of 6690
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Thanks, Gud! I've tweaked it,and written the query letter (my first query to a magazine! WOO!) and will be sending it out today.
Gudanov - Aug 10, 2011 9:29:13 am PDT #4571 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Good Luck!
One of these days I need to revise my short story 'Adventures of Lloyd' and submit it someplace. It's a parody of fantasy stories so I'd need to find a welcome market for that sort of thing. Meanwhile, I made it through chapter 2 and I'm working on revising chapter 3.
Strix - Aug 10, 2011 7:27:52 pm PDT #4572 of 6690
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I sent the query and submission out this evening!
Gud, I'll keep an eye out for possible markets for your story.
Thanks for your feedback!
Typo Boy - Aug 13, 2011 3:10:20 pm PDT #4573 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.
Personal whine, whine, whine. My old editor resigned. My new editor wants changes. On the bright side he is willing to tell me what he wants changed rather than editing a representative sample and saying "edit the rest that way".
Amy - Aug 13, 2011 3:28:20 pm PDT #4574 of 6690
Because books.
If you were through with revisions, why is he asking for more? Weren't you at or close to the copyediting stage?
Typo Boy - Aug 13, 2011 3:37:04 pm PDT #4575 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.
I did the revisions the old editor wanted. He wants more. I'm pushing back a bit - explaining that some of what he dislikes about the structure was a selling point for the book in the original proposal. The problem is that it is not his proposal, and he did not buy into the vision. Tuesday there will be a discussion to find out exactly what he wants. But he already agreed that if we come to a meeting of minds on changes, he will then detail exactly what paragraphs he wants changed. And if the changes end up at the paragraph level I can live with that. But what I can't live with is structural changes. He took over another editor's project at a very late stage. He needs to live with what the previous editor and the author agreed to as a general strategy and vision.
I know some provisions I will definitely negotiate for in future contracts. An agent could helped there, but apparently it is harder to get an agent than to get published.