The life most real to me. As evidenced by the preponderance of posts.
1233 words on the fanfic, yay!! Hey, that’s rather a lot. Nothing like grabbing a plotbunny and running. But now I’m wiped. Hope cut her hair. I blame Bly. She was just cutting off her split ends! (Bly did that not two weeks ago.) *sigh* Simi took her to Shop with a Cop again. It’s […]
Under the “get something DONE” flag, I worked a bit on another of my fanfics. Wrote 206 words and wandered off. Tried to find the threads of a couple more. Blah. Need to make some plot decisions and just DO. Seriously. I have *counts* five incomplete but posted fics. I have two (three, four, eep!)
So it isn’t anything I can get paid for. That’s okay. At least I wrote. 900+ words on a fanfic. What happens when Schwarz, Evil Assassin Team, decide they need more than a maid–they need a nanny? A Spoonful of Sugar is on mm.org. If you don’t know how to get there, you probably don’t
I’ve figured it out. It’s not just my friend being an ass. It’s not just Bly being away. It’s not all the other crap, though it all figures in. The real problem, what’s really wrong with me, or at the heart of it, or making it a ton worse or whatever, is that I’m not
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So I crawled out of my pout long enough to shine up the hook for Taro’s book and send it to Miss Snark’s Crapometer. (here ) And suddenly realized–that’s the book I was just looking at, where I realized that the first scene has no conflict. Miss Snark is a proponent of dead bodies and/or
Okay, so I sat down with the dang thing. And guess what? Holly Lisle–who is not, no, the be-all and end-all of writing advisors, but is multi-published and seems pretty smart–Holly Lisle says Thou Shalt Have Conflict on Every Page. First page, no conflict. Not even in the first scene, and very little that matters
So the wonderful Wonderer posted a link to Holly Lisle’s One-Pass Revision article in the Spork Room. (don’t ask) It’s here: Holly Lisle This looks–hard as hell. It also looks like one heck of a way to knock a decent novel into “pretty darn good” in a very short time. I’m thinking I might try
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