In my wholesome opinion, this topic should stay in Reading Excuses, as it pertains specifically to this writing group, not TWG in general.Agreed.
It may be a bit late (late monday, early tuesday) because of my slowness in writing. And a horde of Japanese and physics homework waiting for me tomorrow, which I have completely ignored up until now.Good, good! We need more like you!
Ideally, if this draft is good, I may do another, less extensive draft. The eventual goal is to send this to Writers of the Future.absolutely go for it. Let us know what happens, of course!
So, in the meantime, another story attacked. I've written the first chapter in what I am calling a "modern mystery/thriller with fantastical elements"
QuoteSo, in the meantime, another story attacked. I've written the first chapter in what I am calling a "modern mystery/thriller with fantastical elements"
You should use the term "Urban Fantasy." It is a genre that sells well.
QuoteSo, in the meantime, another story attacked. I've written the first chapter in what I am calling a "modern mystery/thriller with fantastical elements"
You should use the term "Urban Fantasy." It is a genre that sells well.
I'm afraid I'm an agent blog junkie on that kind of thing and figure that I don't want to give them an easy excuse to reject me when I get to querying. . .
That's quite the outline, Flo.Well I've tried writing with significantly shorter outlines in the past (and none at all), but that just didn't work out. I have to know exactly where I'm going and how I'm going to get there, apparently. Which is quite surprising, because when I started out writing, I was convinced that outlines took all the fun out of it. Silly past-me.
Congrats on finishing, Renoard, and everyone else who has actually been getting things done. =D Scrupulously avoiding talking about what I've accomplished in the last - too long ...Took the words right out of my mouth, sister.
I have DR fully outlined now and got to the 20,000 word mark and it still doesn't have a name I like. But I suppose if it were published that would be the first thing the evil editors would change, right? And I am pretty happy with how it is coming (which is why I send it to you, must stop all happiness in it's tracks). So much to write more to write though. :o
Wow, you’re good. I always have such a hard time coming up with more ideas. I’ll be lucky if I write more than 2 or 3 books out of my main series. I’ll look forward to seeing your stuff though.
My problem was never getting past a certain mark. My first ‘real’ book went on forever (some 170,000 words and some 5, 6 years to write it). I didn’t know where I was going but I just kept writing until something interesting finally happened. Lots of unrelated, unresolved tangents ensued. I am determined to someday go back and fix that thing once and for all, if only for my own satisfaction, but for now my goal is to just focus on this one book. I’m trying to keep it around 80,000 words (it’s a YA… maybe), write 1,000 word everyday (even if it’s all junk I delete the next day) and have it done by Christmas, hopefully beating Little Wilson in the process who also has a book in production (You are SO going down :P).
Chaos: So basically, you're just afraid because I'd win. :P
No, that does sound a bit daunting. Good luck!
And I guess I have a new name to add to my list. Queen of Excuses...All righty. I can deal.
Is this an elected position or do we have to revolt? ???I have some, lets call them 'connections', to the middle east, I'm sure I could get a hold of a bunch of AKs, maybe even a mercenary or two...
Whatever you do, don't read anything by this "Eric Lake" guy. He's a hack.So I've heard... his blog would have fooled me, though, that looks professional enough.
Well....I had an unbelievable technical problem tonight.That sucks... makes me want to save my stuff to a fourth drive, to be honest.
Well....I had an unbelievable technical problem tonight. I finished my plot summary for Thread of Oblivion and saved it to my jump drive. Something came up where I needed some files off of the jump drive moved onto my laptop. I saved my file and took the drive out. I went to put it into the other machine and the back end came off of it. The chipset slipped out. When I got it back together I stuck it in my laptop the only file that was damaged was my pre-writing file. The whole document was erased. So, basically unless my friend can pull of a miracle and recover the document I will be getting up tomorrow morning and starting all over again. :( I had a lot of material written too -- over 17000 words. Now I have the bare threads of a six chapter outline left. *sigh* Sorry for the complaints -- I'm just a bit down about it.
Cool! Keep it for posterity. ;D
One of these days I will again have money to spend on things not pertaining to food, shelter, and transportation.Ditto, but add education to my list. >:(
Well... you're hearing about all the good stuff that you can look forward to later on.Does that mean you will be submitting it here, you will be submitting it to a publisher or that I should stop complaining enjoy the updates I am getting?
(Other captions include "In which there is an impressive run-on sentence" and "In which the protagonist complains about saddlesores", if that makes you feel better.)Sounds like a Patrica Wrede or Diana Wynne Jones novel style of labeling chps. I love those books. :)
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... you weren't expecting me to put actual effort into that, were you?
My little way of saying, "that's a really long outline."
That's quite the outline, Flo.
I got the best description of this one form of magic I've ever created this far.
What I did on my Summer vacation.
What?! It's flippin' December already?!? Crud!
But that explains my lack of progress on anything literary and absence from this August forum.Bah, excuses, that's not what we're - oh, wait. ::)
I have a NYT best-seller writer friend who promised to help look over it. Hopefully, he's still game. Meanwhile, beta readers!
Cool, Chaos. I appreciate it.
I understand busy schedules, Silk. Maybe I'll make you a 'theta' reader :)
It was pretty much straight dialogue.Yay! That sounds like my first drafts. :)
I hope it would pass the Frog test.There's a Frog test? Awesome. I like any test I don't personally have to take.
I hope it would pass the Frog test.There's a Frog test? Awesome. I like any test I don't personally have to take.
Progress... I got my RE inbox down to four unread emails?
How many words did the ms turn out to be?
hehe, I've got 5 new chapters done this week so far. I expect to get two more done by Sunday. Cool huh?
I sent off Discharge to Writers of the Future yesterday. *crosses fingers*
I sent off Discharge to Writers of the Future yesterday. *crosses fingers*
Hey all. I have some time to critique this coming week but so much back log that I don't think I will be trying to do all of them since I'm not sure who is still active and still looking for critiques for older stuff. So, let me know if there is one you still waiting for more feedback on if you have an updated version of a submit you want some fresh eyes on. Otherwise I'll just pick out a few to do and let the pieces fall where they may.... :P
I am almost finished the second part. I thought I was moving into the last scene, but it was too much, so I split it and half.
I've been doing a bit of writing, but not on my story. It's for the mistborn forum rpg (http://mistbornrpg.17thshard.com/index.php?). I figure it all counts toward the million or so practice words I need, no?
It lives! That is to say, I live!
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I may also actually read one of the many submissions in my inbox in the near future. ;)