The thing is that I'm really, deeply undisciplined. I've found that no matter what the circumstances, I always, always spend an hour farting around before buckling down to work. If all I give myself is an hour, it's a flat-out guarantee that I will waste it farting around online. If I have a whole day or two, I waste one or two hours farting around and then spend the next 22 or 46 being productive (and then, once the pump is primed, at least the next week after that being able to seriously use the one-hour bits of time mundane life allows... and then I lose steam and grind down, but another day or another weekend is all it takes to get it going again).
Right, there comes a point where you have to either move on, or just buy yourself a Klingon costume and go with it.
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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.
JZ - Aug 28, 2013 5:46:26 am PDT #5811 of 6687
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Amy - Aug 28, 2013 5:47:34 am PDT #5812 of 6687
Because books.
Yeah, but if you take a notebook to the park, you can't fart around online! Just saying.
I just love that story and I want more of it. IT'S REALLY ALL ABOUT ME.
Gudanov - Aug 28, 2013 6:04:53 am PDT #5813 of 6687
Coding and Sleeping
If you can do a self-retreat, go for it. I'll be jealous though :)
hippocampus - Aug 28, 2013 8:54:20 am PDT #5814 of 6687
not your mom's socks.
JZ, what I read was so much fun - please keep writing it.
JZ - Aug 28, 2013 9:34:51 am PDT #5815 of 6687
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Yes, ma'am. I don't dare disobey the published author!
hippocampus - Aug 28, 2013 3:29:54 pm PDT #5816 of 6687
not your mom's socks.
::points up to Amy's comments, earlier:: These must be what you mean... and I second them wholeheartedly.
Typo Boy - Aug 31, 2013 5:37:55 pm PDT #5817 of 6687
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.
Every now and again fiction writers ask "what would be an appropriate name for someone born in [year] with [demographic characteristics]. If that character is born in the US, the SSA publishes a database going back to the late 19th century of the 1000 most common baby names in descending order, one file per year for the national version, one file per state for the state by state data. Those top thousand names generally represent at least a majority of the population, though the size of that majority varies from year to year.
And actually including the link would help - here: [link]
Burrell - Aug 31, 2013 8:06:52 pm PDT #5818 of 6687
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Congratulations, Sox!
Gudanov - Sep 04, 2013 5:30:23 am PDT #5819 of 6687
Coding and Sleeping
I'm buzzing through Dragonfire, buzzing for me at least, I've got about 19,000 words now. My goal is no more than 75k and then hopefully edit down a bit from there. I have an ace up my sleeve in a decent ending place earlier in the tale.
I'm waiting for word on my latest revision for Cog. I know it won't be the last round though as Cog is too long as is. It's lost 5k, but needs to lose another 8k. The last revision added length, but it addressed the issues that intern, reader, and agent came up with. Unfortunately, most of those issues required more instead of less. I had to cut a bit of plot to at least have it be 5k less than the original manuscript.
I swear, wordcount is my eternal foe. My agent must have really liked the ms to take on an overlong novel.
Connie Neil - Sep 04, 2013 6:03:32 am PDT #5820 of 6687
brillig
My agent must have really liked the ms to take on an overlong novel.
So maybe it's not overlong?