Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
IO9 just featured this [link] which is a tumblr that offers up ideas for use in science fiction (maybe fantasy too...I haven't read all the way through) stories, they just want a heads up if you use them.
They look oddly specific, and also a bit ESL. I'm not entirely sure why someone would do this. I mean, it's not like a random generator. Someone's sitting down and thinking these up.
Setting the ~ma free. Made it to the very last group, but no farther. Next time.
I'm trying to get my revisions done by the end of April. I'm not sure if I can make it or not, but it's my own artificial deadline. All the troll poems are gone now. Kinda sad, but it makes sense.
Save the troll poems for Extras on your website when you get published!
I just figured out my new scene I needed for my revisions. It's like finding the last piece of the puzzle. Now I've just got to write it... which I can't start on for a least seven hours or more.
Gud, I hope the scene got even better over the course of the next seven hours of steeping.
I revised the novel (Debit, for those who are playing along at home) after comments came back in March - a lot of good feedback, plus one "do the last 50 pages again." Upon reflection, this was very much the right thing to do. And so I did. I sent it back again today. After jettisoning 12k words and revising the end, it's 6k words longer. Now I will do the falling down thing.
That's a great feeling, Gud. I bet you're writing now, huh?
Yay, Sox! All kinds of good feedback ~ma.
I certainly am!
I came across this reading, well listening, to a book about a woman finding a man attractive.
"Even while walking he looked like he was dancing."
Maybe it's just me, but I can't come up with a mental image of this actually working short of the man listening to a MP3 player while walking and dance-walking along which is totally not what the author is going for.
Just for fun, what kind of descriptions totally throw off your mental image while reading?
I can't think of any right now, Gud, but I'm distracted.
Hey, Scrappy! Scott Caan was just on Ellen, and he was talking about having his plays published. Where do you get plays published? I realized I know absolutely nothing about it.