Aug. 29th, 2007
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Aug. 29th, 2007 05:00 pmARGH!
Change of First Person Voice. I'd been writing my suburban stockbroker for a few months now and then I paused to write something in a very wordy Regency style - also first person. Now I've decided to go back and started to write the stockbroker again... he's coming out with overrunning convoluted fancy schmancy sentences.
GO AWAY, GEOFFREY YOU WORDY BUGGER, YOU'VE HAD YOUR TIME IN THE SACK!
I suppose the best way to exorcise him would be to re-read everything I've written on the novel so far? Anyone else had this problem?
Heroes and a real growly rant
Aug. 29th, 2007 11:22 pmI really liked the waitress. I hope Hiro gets to do something.
Claire's dad cares about her. That's nice!!
Is Mohindra ever going to be intergral? Or be forever annoying?
I am now fixated at the way Andro's ears go up when he smiles.
Shall I tell what I dislike intensely? When someone asks ME if I would beta a story for them, and then when I do, (and I spend a lot of time and effort and research over it) and send it back I get no acknowledgment, no thanks, no NOTHING. And then when she sells it, nothing either. I LIKE beta-ing. I don't do a lot of it and anyone who knows me knows my punctuation SUCKS but I can brit pick as well as anyone. I like helping others. And there's nothing that discourages me from never helping anyone ever again as not even being thanked. Grump Grump Grump
And finally:
Just for the grump.
Decimate. Know what this means, Authors. Look it up. It's a horrible horrible Roman punishment and it doesn't mean "to wipe out."
Free Reign. No Reigns are free, and you don't give anyone free reign over anything. Really. You don't. It's a horsey term. See Dressage.
Insure. You don't insure that something is done. You ENSURE it.