Yes, ma'am. I don't dare disobey the published author!
Jinx? If you and Dreg have been using my moisturizer again I'm going to have to rip off your scaly- hey, what's the deal with your face?
Glory ,'Potential'
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 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.
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?
Amy - Sep 04, 2013 4:46:37 pm PDT #5821 of 6687
Because books.
This lost me a little after the .gif on top but it's a cool discussion of story structure.
Gudanov - Sep 05, 2013 6:07:23 am PDT #5822 of 6687
Coding and Sleeping
A couple of blog posts today.
One on my agent's blog about Scrivener. [link]
And one on my blog about mocking books. [link]
My agent is shut down for submissions and is doing a series of guest posts to concentrate on catching up. I'm all for this :).
erikaj - Sep 05, 2013 8:26:21 am PDT #5823 of 6687
Always Anti-fascist!
How many times do you/would you revise the same story before deciding that somehow it doesn't work?
Gudanov - Sep 05, 2013 9:12:01 am PDT #5824 of 6687
Coding and Sleeping
I don't think I've ever given up on a story. I might rewrite it until it doesn't resemble the original.