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I just realized that even though my story takes place in a small town where everyone knows everyone else, there are quite a few characters who I haven't named. I'm so bad with names!
NovemberNov 11 Wednesday Wed 09
I just realized that even though my story takes place in a small town where everyone knows everyone else, there are quite a few characters who I haven't named. I'm so bad with names!
NovemberNov 9 Monday Mon 09
Up far too early for my own good.
NovemberNov 8 Sunday Sun 09
Editing plans
One of the things I like about the internet and uploading my own work is that finality. An invisible audience on which I can project critiques and expectations that force me to improve my work when I'm creating something for them. And the internet is a big part of the strength of nanowrimo as well - the online support is amazing, and I have a desire to post what I have written for the sake of completing it - of playing my story against that invisible audience.
But my story is all over the place. I've started on a fantasy with no outline, so I find myself with disproportionate and at times ridiculous amounts of exposition scattered throughout the action. I have light dialogue and not much action in some parts, and the balance needs to be shifted so it's not completely boring to read. I thought of an ending first, so I wrote that and now I'm adding to the middle. What a mess! Since I don't have time for editing during November (and that's not the point anyway), I've decided to devote December through February to editing and rework.
December - Make an outline and organize the major events in the story. This is working backwards because I didn't start out with an overall outline, but I really need to re-organize some of the action and I may need to change some major events that occur in the story.
January - Divide outline into chapters and balance out the exposition. What does the reader need to know when? How can the story stay interesting and keep the reader immersed all the details of the surroundings and the backstory?
February - Chapter-level editing. Grammar, rhythm, transitions, typos, deleting things that are awful and reworking things that don't make sense. (I expect that not too much of what I've written will make sense, so I'm planning for a lot of re-work).
And promising here to an almost-completely-invisible virtual audience will make it all the more likely that I'll carry out my plan of editing action. So thank you, virtual non-readers, for helping me achieve my goals.
:)
A little behind, but will catch up!
NovemberNov 4 Wednesday Wed 09
Still going strong on the Nano story. This is the first year it's really worked well for me!
NovemberNov 3 Tuesday Tue 09
NovemberNov 1 Sunday Sun 09
Midnight dash successful! Nano word count is about 1800.
OctoberOct 27 Tuesday Tue 09
Thinking about time. Nothing new there...
OctoberOct 21 Wednesday Wed 09
Really looking forward to the start of NaNoWriMo.
OctoberOct 20 Tuesday Tue 09
Writing yaay!
OctoberOct 19 Monday Mon 09
Wasting some time...
OctoberOct 10 Saturday Sat 09
On Prototyping: The Simplest Solution Never Comes First :: Articles :: The 99 Percent ∞
“We think as designers, we are authors of something. We don’t think of design as a service…"
At the airport way too early, because if I wasn't here I would be at home worrying about being late.
OctoberOct 7 Wednesday Wed 09
I am out of lives.
SeptemberSep 10 Thursday Thu 09
8,168 gold pieces in debt in Fable 2's Albion.
AugustAug 22 Saturday Sat 09
Chillin...
Watercolor test: I got a set of watercolors today, and the first thing I decided to do is test out all the colors and try painting with them because I've never really done it before. :)
Salt effect: I was playing with the salt effects on the wet paint. The salt crystals absorb some of the pigment, so when it's dry and you brush off the sat you're left with something like this. I think it's magic, but it's probably just science.
AugustAug 20 Thursday Thu 09
“The quickest, easiest way to produce something beautiful and lasting is to risk making something horribly crappy.”
Chris Baty on Exuberant Imperfection (No Plot? No Problem! Chronicle Books: 2004)
AugustAug 14 Friday Fri 09
beautiful fonts with @font-face at hacks.mozilla.org ∞
A good explanation and code examples of using the @font-face declaration. Most of the articles I've seen so far talk about the implications of embedding services and font-as-service and licensing and piracy...It's nice to see a detailed collection of clear examples!
