Elizabeth Culmer (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
edenfalling) wrote2009-09-23 11:52 pm
edenfalling) wrote2009-09-23 11:52 pm
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4 unrelated things: "Secrets," Femgenficathon, canceled visits, imaginary story meme
1. Tonight I wrote a bit more of "Secrets" -- chapter 14 is now at 10,650 words, give or take some punctuation. (It will never cease to annoy me that MS Word reads a dash (--) as a word rather than a punctuation mark. It doesn't matter much in short fic, but for anything over a thousand words or so -- and especially for HP fic, where I use a more liberal hand with dashes as a vague attempt to imitate Rowling's style -- it throws my counts off by up to a hundred words.)
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2. In other writing news, I currently have two completely different attempts at answering my Femgenficathon prompt (one of which is more or less complete in a bad draft at 1,900 words), but last week I had the brilliant and evil idea of combining them into a two-narrative time-split story, and that makes so much more sense than continuing either alone that I am resolved to make the attempt. The thing is, I need to hammer out a scene-by-scene outline, to make sure I keep both storylines running at the same pace and don't have to pad or trim one to make it interweave properly with the other. And I do not have the mental focus to do that after an 8.5 hour shift at work.
So I am going to do that on Friday, probably. (And if it doesn't work out, I will throw up my hands in defeat; clean up the bad draft of the story about Jadis, the Lady of the Green Kirtle, and the fall of the Tree of Protection; and set the story about Jadis, her sister, and the destruction of Charn aside for later.)
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3. My mom was going to visit me this weekend, but she came down with something vaguely flu-like and the visit is therefore off. *sigh*
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4. Meme time! Stolen from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
animus_wyrmis:
Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.
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2. In other writing news, I currently have two completely different attempts at answering my Femgenficathon prompt (one of which is more or less complete in a bad draft at 1,900 words), but last week I had the brilliant and evil idea of combining them into a two-narrative time-split story, and that makes so much more sense than continuing either alone that I am resolved to make the attempt. The thing is, I need to hammer out a scene-by-scene outline, to make sure I keep both storylines running at the same pace and don't have to pad or trim one to make it interweave properly with the other. And I do not have the mental focus to do that after an 8.5 hour shift at work.
So I am going to do that on Friday, probably. (And if it doesn't work out, I will throw up my hands in defeat; clean up the bad draft of the story about Jadis, the Lady of the Green Kirtle, and the fall of the Tree of Protection; and set the story about Jadis, her sister, and the destruction of Charn aside for later.)
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3. My mom was going to visit me this weekend, but she came down with something vaguely flu-like and the visit is therefore off. *sigh*
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4. Meme time! Stolen from
animus_wyrmis:Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.