But, alas…it no longer fits. So to assuage my bitter loss, I’ll post the best part of it here. If you don’t know Eve, it loses much of its awesome, but hopefully enough remains. “Naturally you would prefer to be the target,” the spook went on, “since you are, shall we say, much more able […]
NOES! I Love That Scene!! Read More »
In fandom, and increasingly out of it, a character too perfect to be believed, whom all the good guys love and all the bad guys fear, usually with a tragic past, is called a Mary Sue.
The (over-emphasized) Dangers of Mary Sue Read More »
Still typing with my eyes closed and slower than snot (sorry for the visual) so I thought I would just post a snip. Or three. Cut from Eve’s book after Eve and Ben rescue Hanna: “You’re frightening her more, Captain. Let me—“ “No time to coddle her, Doc. Wouldn’t be a favor anyway. Look around.”
I cut 298 words from Eve today. So we’re (all the way) down to 136,293. Yay! Or something. Oh, and I got my Taro/Rafe head-shot to work on my NaNoWriMo profile. *big grin* Hey, it means a lot to me! Wanna write, wanna write, wanna write…I’m SO tempted to cheat and start now.
Counting the Little Things? Read More »
Not much to show for my efforts today. 136,580 words, so Eve is down less than 200. What can I say? *grin* My re-write rocks. I’m just worried about when I get closer to the end. I had the goal of finishing the re-write before Bly got here, and then things moved a little faster
Yeah, so it’s only a wee bit under. It IS under. I cut 300 words tonight. I may have to ease up on the editing thing soon, though. All work and no creating makes KD bite things. I’ve heard that’s not very professional.
Tonight at group there were astronomers kindly sharing their expertise and their equipment. Kids everywhere, and Hope was the only one who managed to trip over the cord of the laptop computer linked to the really expensive telescope and nearly destroy both. Because Hope was the only one who skipped around and around the table