writing

[marguerite_26]

I am so in love with this post on MicroEditing in meta_writer.

Hello there, good advice. How are you today?

ps: I wrote 20 words today for my career fair fic. Woot! and deleted 150. d'oh!

Comments

[cassie-black12.livejournal.com]

I opened a word.doc for my career_fair fic, and copy/pasted my prompt at the top!! That's progress, right???

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

you gotta start somewhere right??? LOL.

We should do a post with the standard header soon so you can copy and paste that in too. Your word count will grow to like... 50 without you having to type a thing. :D

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

It was good, wasn't it? Handy-dandy tips all in one post.

I love that comm. :)

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

yes, it's all stuff we kinda 'know' and sorta try to think about but it's a great list to have in your pocket when you are re-reading your own fic and thinking: why is this falling flat?

[faynia.livejournal.com]

So your total for the day is -130? o.o That's still better than me 8D

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

LOL.

The day is not over (for either of us).

May your muse be an enthusiastic, demanding, pervy bitch well into the night.

[faynia.livejournal.com]

Pervy muse? I have one of those?



*G*

[leela-cat.livejournal.com]

You're now officially 20 words ahead of me. My career fair fic is still waiting on me finishing my snarry game fic. *sigh*

Life should just damn well stop for a bit, you know? I have writing to do.

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

LOL.

Yes, we all need a pause button sometimes. :D

[jamie2109.livejournal.com]

*glomps*

Just random drive by glomping...

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

*glomps back*

♥

[melusinahp.livejournal.com]

It's that /ing endings one that gets me. I have a terrible tendency towards over using /ing words.

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

It had never ever occurred to me before to be overly concerned with /ing words. *frowning*

But now that I think on it, yes, there are simply better ways to say things.

ps: OMG!!! How awesome is the response to the darkfest! Woot!!! You rock!

[melusinahp.livejournal.com]

It's one of those "rule" that kind of irks me, because while it usually applies, it's not actually so simple as "never use ing endings." Same as ly adverbs. There are many occasions where an adverb adds a lot to a sentence.

I'm thinking of a specific example re ing endings -- I just read part of a fic written by someone who is a very strong writer. It began with the sentence "The building was burning." Since I was betaing, my instinct kicked in and I changed it to "The building burned" in my head.

Then I realised that the two sentences produce very different images in my mind. "The building was burning" puts me direcly in the middle of the flames, it creats heat, danger and urgency, and that's just what the writer wanted. "The building burned" puts me outside the building, it distances me.

So, I don't know. These rules are always helpful, but I think they need to be considered on a case by case basis.

ETA: Oh, and yes, the response has been great. :D Of course last year, there were about 70 sign ups and about 40 eventual submissions. So, I'm taking it all with a happy grain of salt. Some awesome names, though, and so many artists! I'm beyond thrilled about that. :D

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

I am agreeing completely with that 'never' is not the right way to say it. I think you need to aware of using the /ing and /ly but not banish them entirely.

"The building was burning" and "The building burned" are excellent examples. If you woke in the middle of the night to crackly sounds and a wave of heat in your bedroom, "The building burned" just doesn't quite cut it. :D

70 sign ups and 40 submissions is great. Especially in this kind of fest. With career fair having 150 sign up, we are only expecting about 60-70 submissions. Still, the general 'feel' of the sign up process, all the excitement that it is generating is worth a lot in drumming up readership.

Although, I think a lot of people like the 'concept' of dark fics, but have a problem reading them. Or maybe that's just me. :D