Three Things Make A Post

[loaded_march]

Huh.  It's the second time I've used the exact same subject line.  Or third?

Anyway!

1. I wrote 1,000 more words this morning and am now officially finished Draft 0 of part 9.  Very, very rarely do Draft 0's ever get released into the provincial park (i.e., betas), and even a controlled, tagged attempt at acclimatizing the Draft for public

Comments

[etharei]

1. Woot for Draft 0! I know the feeling - I used to hate letting anyone see my work before posting, which is a bit of a conundrum when you need to get something beta'd. It's taken me forever to be okay with it. But I still won't let someone read the raw, freshly-typed stuff.

I'm co-writing something now and we all work in one gdoc file, and it's my slowest writing yet because I can't turn my inner editor off (because omg there are people reading it as I type) so I have to sound out every sentence in my head. If it's a discrete scene, I usually work on it on my own and copy-paste it in when it's done.

2. Would love to read a post about dialogue! I greatly enjoy the dialogue in LM. There's something subtly different about Merlin and Arthur's speech, which also matches their character voices in my head. I think that I'd be able to differentiate between them even if you don't add explicit identifiers or tags.

3. *pokes*

I hate giving out spoilers too. Or anything more than the most cursory information. Like, there are usually certain details in my fics/plots which I know will hook readers in, but I prefer guiding readers to it, instead of tossing the hooks out from the start.

You can do what I did and just put in a basic description :D Hope you joinnn!

[loaded_march]

But nobody sees my draft 0. My beta(s) get draft 1. Draft 2 is usually the version that gets posted. Draft 0 is... no. Just, no.

I've always wanted to try the gdoc thing for collaboration writing, but, yeah, need to find someone to write with... Yeah, I can totally see why it would be slow writing, because I would be mortified at someone seeing my zero draft in action.

Dialogue is not easy for me, but once I have the characters in my head and get them talking, it flows pretty easy. Getting the trick of it, well. I'll get to that in the dialogue post :D I'm glad to hear Arthur and Merlin have distinctive voices though!

Also, ouch. I am joining. As soon as I don't put together a basic description that's too generic!