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fire breather
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Arizona
Posts: 25,883
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*snipped* for MS content, lol.
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fire breather
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Arizona
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Did everyone go take a nap? Everybody's lights are still on, but no one seems to be home, Lol... Last edited by parumpdragon; 04-05-2011 at 08:38 AM. |
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YA romance writer in love with love
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Chicago
Posts: 12,480
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Hahaha thanks, parump
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fire breather
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Arizona
Posts: 25,883
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Yeah, I was so busy talking to Pixie I forgot to hit that important little button. Smirk.
I have only 7,083 words on the snippet yet. It was 94,000 but I just wasn't thrilled with it, so loving the plot an all I decided to start fresh. I have my work cut out for me, but it is moving, lol.
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Mother Flippin' Rhymnosorous
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Winchestertonfieldville
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Anyone up for one more on the last hour...little late, but..
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Website: Shadow of the Wood Agent currently Subbing: GOLDEN 110,0000 ~ Aryana's survived five years longer than a normal half-blood, buying time by working as an assassin. But with her magic awake, now time’s up. Writing: DARKNESS BRUTAL, DARKNESS FAIR 32,000/80,000 (YA; TV's Supernatural meets Dickens' Oliver Twist) |
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fire breather
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Arizona
Posts: 25,883
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Hi Pixie, yeah I still have more pages of my snipper if you want to see a couple more. I will YAWN if you will. It is only 9:30 pm on my side of the world.
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Mother Flippin' Rhymnosorous
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Winchestertonfieldville
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Uhg...Sorry, I'm a dork. I've gotta go... Wednesday, though! YAWN on wednesday
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Website: Shadow of the Wood Agent currently Subbing: GOLDEN 110,0000 ~ Aryana's survived five years longer than a normal half-blood, buying time by working as an assassin. But with her magic awake, now time’s up. Writing: DARKNESS BRUTAL, DARKNESS FAIR 32,000/80,000 (YA; TV's Supernatural meets Dickens' Oliver Twist) |
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fire breather
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Arizona
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okay... Whatever works.
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Literary Vampire hee hee
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: San Francisco, CA
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ooh! I'm so jealous....I WISH that I could post my new project. *SIGH* I'm 13,554 words into the thing now. If only this wasn't a singular kind of project.
Ok...back to work...1,446 until I get to the goal I had for the weekend. Then I have to do another 5k before today is over with. Since I'm working on getting 5k a day done I gotta keep pounding away on the keyboard. LOL I'll check in again.
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fire breather
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Arizona
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I'm never setting a goal like that. I do not work well that way. I will just say - awe to heck with it - before actually doing it. Lol. Not my style.
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A place where dreams are born
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: In your head. I'm the little voice you hear all the time. And you thought that was your conscience!
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40k or 2am. Whichever comes first.
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Literary Vampire hee hee
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: San Francisco, CA
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So where are you at now? It's 1:37 am right now. Or at least it is here in Nebraska! LOL I'm up to 14,846. So I have 5,154 more to go to stay on top of my goal. I think that I can do it. In the meantime I'm going to brew another pot of coffee. Funny story. Hublet has a digital alarm clock that was made before the government changed the day of "springing forward" and it changed last night. He woke up at what he thought was a quarter after 6 did his thing...came out and turned on the news and found out that it was nearly 6. It was actually a quarter after 5 when he actually got up! ROFL Too funny!
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A place where dreams are born
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: In your head. I'm the little voice you hear all the time. And you thought that was your conscience!
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I think two's going to come first. Unless I can pound out 4k in an hour. ...Possible, but not probable.
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Literary Vampire hee hee
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: San Francisco, CA
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Well....don't push too hard....you don't want to break your brain & not be able to finish it!
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Literary Vampire hee hee
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: San Francisco, CA
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I'm up to 17,969 words....only 2,031 left to go for today. I'm still somewhat wide awake. Either I'm overtired and not tired....or I slept in enough yesterday to make up for my lost sleep. Not sure which....not going to question it either.
Will check in again later! Toodles!
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fire breather
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Arizona
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Morning Guys,
So, how did the write-a-thon go last night? You two are definitely hoot-owls, chuckle. Finally 6 am, time to get up. Had a horrible dream. Nightmare, oh well, trying to just focus on today and let it go.
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practical experience, FTW
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Boston, MA
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Mornin' guys. Y'all were intense last night, huh?
I swear to you, half the time I was asleep my query was running through my head. *cringes*
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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Yeah Chels, they were intense last night. Chuckle. I think they wrote themselves out - literally. Laugh.
How are you? I am thinking of starting a big re-write of an old story this morning. Not sure I want to do it, but I will not lose the story. It's too good. lol |
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practical experience, FTW
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Boston, MA
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I'm good. Kind of stressing about this query business. One critique partner said "go for it" with one draft and then YALITCHAT says, "No! You have no hook! No one will want to read your book!"
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Literary Vampire hee hee
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: San Francisco, CA
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Ok.....so I took a break......now I've lost my steam....so the last 2,031 that I had left I'm going to make up later on when I start writing after waking up....right now I'm exhausted.....so beddie bye.....here I come!
G'night all y'all!
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practical experience, FTW
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Chicagoland
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Hey everyone. Looks like you were all productive into the wee-hours last night. Good for you! I so wish I could function on less sleep, I think I'd get more done. I did add 1K yesterday, that's not too shabby, right? I think I need to stop obsessing over my word count. In some ways, it's nice to have a goal: finish x words by end of the day. In other ways, it's kind of like staring at the time/mileage on the treadmill--makes it seem like it's taking FOREVER.
Moni--you are a machine! Good for you. Chelsey--that's got to be hard to hear such contradictory things about your query. Which set of feedback do you trust more? What does your gut instinct tell you? |
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fire breather
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Arizona
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Night Moni - our little literary vampire. Lol. Daybreak and she's gone. Chuckle.
Still trying to work on that story. Having a hard time getting back into the feel and voice in it. There is a lot of animousity and hatred between my two main character as one in an evil monster and the other is a pure character. Noble and true, and all that. Smirk. Lost of friction. Got to get back into that frame of mind. Hope you have better luck with the query Chels! Hi Pezie! How are you? |
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practical experience, FTW
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Boston, MA
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I think some of the newer comments are right, as far as fleshing out a few more details. I also think I'm finally getting to the crux of my conflict. It's just annoying to be done and not done and then done. If you guys don't mind, what do you think of this version? I'm struggling with the hook...
Seventeen-year-old guitarist Meridian Ashton only connects with people through performance until her cousin’s accident makes her question her desire to stay solo. At Fernsgrove High, Meridian’s classmates have dubbed her Madame la Freak, thanks to her lapses into the Parisian French of her childhood. As the daughter of a travel-writer, Meridian knows how to proceed if a place loses its charm. Her bags are packed when her fourteen-year-old cousin Natalie's leg and her dreams of becoming a star gymnast are crushed in one afternoon. Meridian knows losing her music would devastate her, so she promises to help Natalie find a new passion—before she realizes she’s damned herself to suburban hell. Fantastique. Natalie lets Meridian drag her to Harvard Square to pass the summer days, because Natalie can hide from her nightmares amongst the drag-queens and living statues. She longs to control the way she’s perceived, the way these unique—and occasionally absurd—performers do. Soon her hair is purple, and she’s ready to prove to everyone that she has as much control over her life as she did when she flipped on the parallel bars. Meridian totally supports Natalie's new attitude, until defending her in a fight almost costs Meridian ability to play. Time to face the music. She has to play the chords that will allow her to fit in in Fernsgrove, or she has to take off with her guitar. Either way, she risks alienating her biggest fan--Natalie.
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practical experience, FTW
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Chicagoland
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I feel like I could write about friction today, parumpdragon, it's been a heck of a morning in my house. One of those days I wish I had a punching bag to blow off some steam. LOL! Instead I vented over email to my husband. That kind of helps. If I had a story with major friction in it going right now, I think i would have been in exactly the right mindset. I'm feeling a bit better though.
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fire breather
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Arizona
Posts: 25,883
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Sorry to hear that Pezie. I had a terribly restless night, and then dreamt of a family member who died a while back. Woke up crying, as I always do with this particular dream. Not my best day either.
Punching bag won't help me though, but a nice thought and a good image for the day, *whack*. Chuckle. And Chels.... Ah, it's a little long, I think. Not the greatest explanation, but yeah. I kind of agree that you need a better hook too (you have one hooky sentence in there - which is a yay!). And I think somehow you need to shorten it, or correct the flow. I'm not trying to be mean, honest, but it just seems - a bit disjointed at points, more near the end. Not sure how to describe it. Sorry. Hope this helps a little. |
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