CupofJoe
Istari
I've been in EU project meetings that took 2 DAYS to agree an acronym! It was four letters long!!!
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Banten
Shadow Lord
DragonOfTheAerie
Istari
Cool, i'm a shadow lord now. Must have happened when i surpassed 800 posts.
Sounds like you were attending an Entmoot. Two days would be considered quick for one of those.
CupofJoe
Istari
If it was an Entmoot I can safely say that I'd have had more fun and "a-lalla-lalla-rumba-kamanda-lindor-burúme" would not mean a hill, but "hill" might have the acromyn A-LALLA-LALLA-RUMBA-KAMANDA-LINDOR-BURÚME...
MystagogueFour more chapters and six thousand more words. Told myself that back in late May with 'Empire: Metropolis.' Four chapters and eight thousand words later, I was still telling myself that - just four more chapters and six thousand words. Didn't finish until the second week of June.
A few weeks ago I started telling myself the same thing with 'Empire: Spiral' - four more chapters and six thousand words. I was on Chapter then, most of ten thousand words ago. Now I'm starting on Chapter 20, and once again, I am telling myself - you guessed it - four more chapters and six thousand words.
Must be a phase or coping mechanism or something.
A few weeks ago I started telling myself the same thing with 'Empire: Spiral' - four more chapters and six thousand words. I was on Chapter then, most of ten thousand words ago. Now I'm starting on Chapter 20, and once again, I am telling myself - you guessed it - four more chapters and six thousand words.
Must be a phase or coping mechanism or something.
Saigonnus
Dark Lord
My random thought for the day: Why is it easier for me to write random stuff, or stuff earlier in the chronology, then it is to actually work on one of my WIPs??
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DragonOfTheAerie
Istari
I've been writing little scenes throughout my WIP for practically forever, but for like two years it's been impossible for me to work on it, starting at the beginning and writing the story in a chronological manner...
Saigonnus
Dark Lord
Mine is sitting at about 85,000 words, and has been for the last 3 or 4 years. I have another at around 40k without working on it for about the same period.
And of course, I still have new ideas all the time and will write them up, just in case I can use them for something. 5k about a magical cat, 10k about a ship's crew in a post-apocalyptic future, 7k about a one-handed Dwarven gunsmith... and this doesn't count world building. *sigh*
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Is there a lot you'll forgive in a book so long as the story is good? I'm currently reading a novel that received some either shotty editing or formatting: words missing, paragraphs lined up funky, sentences cutting off, grammar errors. It sounds like a nightmare, right? But the story is engaging and the errors are minor annoyances at best.
BTW this is a NY Times best-seller.
BTW this is a NY Times best-seller.
Saigonnus
Dark Lord
I guess I am more hung up on grammar than many (english teacher btw), because it irks me when there are lots of grammatical mistakes. If the POV is that of a 10 year-old, I suppose I would be more forgiving, but generally, it bothers me whether the story is good or not.
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Banten
Shadow Lord
That doesnt bother me too much. I am not a native english speaker, so I'm quite accustomed to mispronunciations, bad grammar, bad spelling, bad punctuation etc... I am probably guilty of one of these things myself in these two sentences!
DragonOfTheAerie
Istari
I'll forgive almost anything if the characters are engaging and make me care about them. I would probably be constantly cringing and rolling my eyes and shaking my head at the book you're describing, but if I really cared about the characters, I would still read.
The grammar and formatting errors might put me off from recommending the book, though...
DragonOfTheAerie
Istari
Why do i not have an emotional connection to this story i'm writing?
FifthView
Dark Lord
Heliotrope said something to me in some thread I can't now find that I wish I'd saved/copied, to the effect that our best writing often comes when we are skating the edge of being absurd/ridiculous/extreme while dipping into our darkest side or most personal side.
I wish I could remember the exact words because it struck me as incredibly important at the time, and I realized that I too often pull back from that edge and in fact probably have a strong tendency to want to avoid writing in that place.
I often start out with a strong emotional connection with a story and then as time passes I discover I just don't give a damn. But the connection comes back at the weirdest times—usually when I'm nowhere near my computer or don't have the time to write.
I experienced that with the series of valentine's day card I did. The first ones were funny/cheeky/cheerful, but the longer I kept at it, the more serious they became. Deeper and darker - much more personal. At the same time they also became better and stronger - a lot stronger.
Russ
Dark Lord
I am easily jarred out of a story. I find stuff like that annoys me to no end and I stop reading the book pretty quickly.
Was it an e-version? There really is no excuse for a NYT best seller to suffer from those kind of flaws.
DragonOfTheAerie
Istari
Losing my connection to a story is frustrating and scary. In this case, though, I don't know if I had a serious connection in the first place.
Honestly I just have no idea where the story is going or what kind of story it is and just...it's scary.