"The words are tightening around my throat."

[greygirlbeast]

So far, Spooky has rendered this morning a scene from an unmade David Lynch film. Bobby Vinton and fussing about how I clean out the coffee maker were involved. She checked for fish. After all, there are tins of sardines in the pantry. Oh, and it doesn't help that, last night, someone pointed out to me how much Thom Yorke and Tilda Swinton look

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[handful_ofdust]

If you feel like that's the natural end of the book, what you're probably looking at is just going back and adding scenes here and there throughout, which can be fun rather than frustrating (can be). I wish you the best of luck.

[greygirlbeast]

f you feel like that's the natural end of the book, what you're probably looking at is just going back and adding scenes here and there throughout, which can be fun rather than frustrating (can be).

No, no. There are scenes I simply left out.

[greygirlbeast]

.....Oh my God. That is uncanny.

Isn't it, though.

[seph_ski]

I finished The Hunger Games yesterday too, and immediately downloaded Catching Fire. I meant to take a break and start reading The Orange Eats Creeps for the book club, but I really wanted to stay in Katniss's world and find out what happens next. I'm finding the second book every bit as compelling and even darker and more horrifying. I think I'm just going to push through the whole trilogy before moving on. It's been a quick enough read so far.

[greygirlbeast]

but I really wanted to stay in Katniss's world and find out what happens next. I'm finding the second book every bit as compelling and even darker and more horrifying.

We're beginning the second book this evening.

[lyda222]

I loved HUNGER GAMES too, and the books that follow --which I recommend. I'm leery that Hollywood will do this awesome book justice as a movie. (If you didn't know, it's already in the works.) I mean, it's actually kind of ironic to turn it into a big-budget Hollywood movie since, in so many ways, the book pokes America in the eye about its entertainment culture, don't you think?

[greygirlbeast]

I mean, it's actually kind of ironic to turn it into a big-budget Hollywood movie since, in so many ways, the book pokes America in the eye about its entertainment culture, don't you think?

Agreed.

[greygirlbeast]

why does it matter if you exceed your word count? i can perhaps understand why they would be peeved if the word count was less than the specified amount in the contract, but isn't anything more the icing on the cake for them?

Thicker books are more expensive to produce, and, hence, the profit margins are narrower, in most cases.

[greygirlbeast]

Hmmm...so are the word counts designated in the contracts based on the past sales of your books?

Yes. That's how J.K. Rowling's books kept getting longer and longer.