House With Bird Feet

[ursulav]

Once upon a time there was a girl named Sarah, whose mother loved her very very very much.

Her mother loved her so much that she was not allowed to play outside where someone might grab her, nor go away on sleepovers where there might be an accident or suspicious food. She was not allowed to go away to camp, where she might be squashed by a horse or

Comments

[tuftears]

<3

This needs to be a seven book multimillion-selling series!

[neowolf2]

With toys for a KFC promotion!

[agoodwinsmith]

+1

[shoshanar]

Only if they order drumsticks!

[djinnthespazz]

Too tasty for mulch, this one. Hope it finishes processing itself. I'd like to know what happens.

[archangelbeth]

I am delighted to hear that I am not the only person whose first edit pass happens in the zone between "I just wrote that" and "my backbrain is panting on the ground and will get to that next paragraph in a moment." (As opposed to the people who cry, "No! No! Don't let out your inner editor or you will get NOTHING DONE!" ...Yeah, well, my inner editor cries if I leave those typos, punctuation errors, and awkward sentences in, but one quick tweak and we're off to the next paragraph -- provided Backbrain cooperates -- and all is hunky-dory.)

Also, this is kind of awesome. I was going "house with feet? BABA YAGA!" immediately. O:>

[skellington1]

That's how I edit, too. I'm not Real Original Author, but after a 150,000 fanfic novel I think I can confidently state that editing as-I-go doesn't keep me from being productive. :P Like you, I don't know how anyone can move on to the next paragraph if THIS one doesn't flow nicely.

[archangelbeth]

*hi-5s her fellow "but creative and internal editor are a team, harnessed in tandem" author*

I can sort of grasp that some people dare not stop... Kinda. Sorta. Because they keep talking about it, mostly. But that's not me! I mean, yeah, if the muse is riding me hard, then sometimes one writes and trusts that aflangtbl will get sorted out by context in the edit pass... But that's different. If I'm backbrain dredging, a little edit tweakery is what's needed to stay with the story while hashing out the next chunk.

...I may be rather a pantser, yes.

(I also tend to start out by reading the last chunk I wrote, to get back in the flow... I hear some people find that odd, too.)

[skellington1]

*twins!*

In a really good flow I'll keep going, but things only ever charge on like that for a page at most, and honestly, I type fast, and half of my editing-for-flow is moving sentences about, (ctrl-x/ctrl-v is even quicker), so it's not usually hard to keep the next sentence in mind.

...I assumed that everyone got back into things by rereading the last chunk. They don't? I read the last bit, and sometimes the bit that comes later (because I write wildly out-of-order and then stitch it all together) to get in the groove. The best times are when I pick something up, read to get the flow, tweak it a bit because it was bothering me, and thus segue seamlessly into the 'actually writing new bits' part, straight from editing.

[randombler]

I love this. I cannot tell you how much I love this. I want to read the book, I want to see the movie. I want to hear you read it on an audio book. This is what I want when I want fiction.

More, please. Pretty please. where do I pay, how do I beg?

You have produced much great stuf. But, word for word, this the best I have seen yet.

Pleeeeeeeese?

[t_c_da]

The house with feet brings to mind that passage in "Pictures at an Exhibition" entitled (in English) "The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yagá)"...

An old tale

[hazelchaz]

They're both harkening back to the same folktale, of course.