River: They weren't cows inside. They were waiting to be, but they forgot. Now they see the sky and they remember what they are. Mal: Is it bad that what she said made perfect sense to me?

'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.


Gudanov - Feb 12, 2012 12:59:43 pm PST #5089 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping

First query for Cog has been fired off.

Readying second query which includes first five pages, so I'm double (well more like octo) checking them. I should fire that off later tonight. That agent has expressed an interest in steampunk and YA.

That will be it for this volley. The next one has shown in interest in streampunk, and YA with female protagonists.

Don't worry, I won't be giving query by query updates. It's just exciting and terrifying to get started.


hippocampus - Feb 12, 2012 1:28:43 pm PST #5090 of 6690
not your mom's socks.

Awesome news Gud!


Strix - Feb 13, 2012 4:17:46 am PST #5091 of 6690
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Typo, that's hilarious!

Go, Gud! Break a...pen.


Amy - Feb 13, 2012 4:24:02 am PST #5092 of 6690
Because books.

Drabble prompt:

ink


Connie Neil - Feb 13, 2012 6:41:00 am PST #5093 of 6690
brillig

The arthritis is not conducive to holding a pen for hours these days; I write primarily on a keyboard. The stuff still works, my voice is still clear, but . . .

The curve of the letters spoke to me, the shape of the words themselves became almost a part of the story. The name of the characters in cursive and ink showed a side of their personality that isn't as apparent in type.

When I first saw a story of mine in type, in "print", they became more real, less purely mine. They put on their outside clothes and went to see the world. The original handwritten pages are still in a drawer, like baby pictures of my children.


Strix - Feb 13, 2012 12:57:59 pm PST #5094 of 6690
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

INK

The slow emerging scrolls of ink on flesh:
more burn than penetration — good.
Always feared the penetration, but I like the burn.

“You’ve good skin,” says the man as his slim, assured fingers
(Strange, their delicacy on such a hewn-from-ironwood block of humanity)
pull my pale flesh taut.

Inkfire strikes; my intentions rise to the surface of my skin
coalesce...
take full form...

No longer hidden from myself –
nor from anyone I choose to let see.
I can hide them
if need be.

But not from me...
Never from me.


Gudanov - Feb 13, 2012 5:23:50 pm PST #5095 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping

Thanks for the well wishes.

When someone says a short synopsis, how long is that? My readied synopsis is two pages single spaced or about 1,200 words. That doesn't seem long, but maybe it is. 'Short' is sort of vague.


Amy - Feb 16, 2012 7:31:45 am PST #5096 of 6690
Because books.

I meant to answer this the other day, Gud, and got distracted. Why are you single-spacing your synopsis, first?

I always defined short as three pages, but definitely double-spaced. It really depends on the editor.

~

Ink:

It was the pen. He was sure of it.

Nothing had ever come so quickly or so freely with a pencil, or using the typewriter. He wouldn’t touch the computer anymore—his brain froze when he opened the lid of the laptop, a biological blue screen.

But the pen was perfect. Just the right size, black ink just thick enough, never smearing. And every sentence written with it was a revelation. He knew it would dry up, though. And so he hoarded his words with the ink, saving them both against the pen’s eventual demise.

His notebook lies waiting, silent.


Toddson - Feb 16, 2012 7:39:13 am PST #5097 of 6690
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

To go with this week's theme, a truck overturned on I-95 and spilled its contents - ink. Gallons and gallons of ink.


Gudanov - Feb 16, 2012 8:13:00 am PST #5098 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping

Thanks. It's single spaced at the moment because it seems to paste cleaner that way and so far the only guidelines have been to paste into the body of the e-mail.