Fanfic Update
New chapter of Shades up.ย And it hasn’t even been a month since the last one!
June 2008
A Million Words
There’s a saying, attributed to Ray Bradbury, that you have to write a million words of crap before you get to the good stuff. Someone mentioned it the other day, and since I was running short of other ways to procrastinate, I got out the calculator. 295,000 words for Eve 60,000 in Donte’s book 83,000
Nineteen Days
Nineteen days to edit Joss and write the ending I didn’t manage the first time around. I still have to plug all the changes into the document (I edit on paper because Holly Lisle says so and she seems to be right), but it’s done. And it’s awesome. I’d dance around the room, but it’s
Soul-Searching
Not mine. Someone far braver. (and yes, I’m going to call her that.) Sometime in the last couple months, writing friends were discussing Lazy Writing that Pissed Us Off. (my name for it.) Stuff like Generic Viking Culture!, Generic Chivalry!, and Fantasy Quests Must Touch Every Country For Pretty Much No Reason. At times we
Even Wiser Than We Knew
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. Douglas Adams English humorist & science fiction novelist
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Progress
Writing–just a little bit–has occurred. I’m doing a Consistency Challenge on one of my forums. I gotta write every day. But since I’m doing the editing challenge on another forum, the wordcount goal is only 100. Better’n nothing. Especially as I don’t stop at 100 pretty much ever. I got nearly three hours of work
Do the Damned Job!
Why, yes, I do rant a lot. I care about people, and I rant on their behalf if not on my own. I can’t recall if I complained here about “volunteering”–going into work though they are no longer paying me to complete work I couldn’t get done sooner. But I’ve been doing it, though it
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