I've decided to work on a "previous" thing. The A&tS story is terribly, terribly flawed, and I need to figure out what the hell is wrong with it...and if it's even fixable. I've been wanting to do something with an unreliable narrator for a fair bit, and this may be my chance at it ( Read more... )

I scribbled 742 additional words on the BeagleFic last night. Adding dramatic tension while keeping the thing fairly light has been a hell of a tightrope walk. It'll be interesting to see what my Writing Buddy thinks of it. All I really need to do now is fix up the scene where Kaylee Mandy asks Mal Russ if she can keep one, and the very last ( Read more... )

*facepalms* Dude, I have so much to learn. My Writing Buddy gave me back the BeagleFic covered in red ink. Apparently when I think I'm showing, I'm actually telling. Those scenes I thought I could just gloss over to get to teh funneh? Can't, really. *cries ( Read more... )

I scribbled nearly 700 words yesterday for the cya_ficathon. And now I'm debating if I want to do the entire thing from River's POV, in first person, which I don't think I've done before ( Read more... )

WHY HAS NO ONE TOLD ME ABOUT THIS???

Dude, a sci-fi novel with NASCAR references scattered throughout. A protagonist named Rusty Wallace. A planet called "D'Earnhardt."

MUST. HAVE.

In other news, I have a beginning to my cya_ficathon entry. Go, me? I'm completely stalled on the HNC story. I guess I'll just format it and give it to my writing buddy on ( Read more... )

Four different places. Ended up with a winter coat for Da Boy and a Bob the Builder Muck toy. Total spent: $3.50. Meh.

Have now begun wondering if the Horse Needs Clothes story would be better if told from first person POV. Am going to try that. Also need to start on cya_ficathon entry, because Dec 1 is going to sneak up on me and I hate panicking about ( Read more... )

over previous entries*

...the ramifications of my major plot point may turn into an actual novel.

Unless I kill off both my major characters in the first 2500 words. [Soup Nazi] No novel for youI'm a bit happier with it. Seems every edit of the thing makes me more pleased. Gee, maybe it'll even be fit for the writers' group after the one ( Read more... )

I thought the editing process was supposed to make you take out chunks and tighten up your wording. However, after going over the "horse needs clothes" story tonight (this morning?), it turns out that I've actually added 165 words to it. I changed the last sentence to something with more punch, added more details and description, and made it ( Read more... )

Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian friends! And yay for Columbus Day for us Americans. Other than the fact that the banks are closed, which, bah, because I need to pay for an eBay auction, but oh well.

Added a line to the HNC story, and it's now at 2000 words exactly. Heh.

The story has a "the end" at the bottom of it.

I'm not sure I'm happy with it.

And if I'm not sure I'm happy with it, that generally means that I'm unhappy with it ( Read more... )