Pros BB check in post

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

Hey everyone and welcome to this week’s check in post for the Pros BB.

As always this is your chance to chat about how you are getting on with your writing, drawing, vidding and anything and everything else. Or if you have any questions that the comm can help with them just let us know in the comments and I just know someone will be able to help.

And for anyone who would like to be hugely distracted for the rest of the day I have a couple of links for you.

The first is this random story generator........here have a sample of my story :D

Before he could come up with any reasonable ideas, Doyle was interrupted by eight clueless elephants that were lured by his sandwich. Doyle shuddered; 'Not again', he thought. Feeling displeased, he randomly reached for his ninja star and skillfully slapped every last one of them. Apparently this was an adequate deterrent--the discouraged critters began to scurry back toward the lemur-infested moor, squealing with discontent. He exhaled with relief. That's when he heard the Ford Capri rolling up. It was Bodie.

And the second is the always deadly and time consuming TV Tropes. I’ll see you all in a few hours.

Comments

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

I is finished! yay. Exactly on my self-imposed schedule, which has never happened before. Sent the story off to two editors last week and both were out of town. lol. They will start editing soon and then I have to shine the fic up.

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

Yay! Congratulations!

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

That is fantastic news luv \o/.

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

YAY! :D

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

;-) Thanks. I'm happy--I hope the story stands up to editing scrutiny.

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

I might (might!) be halfway now! Of a first draft, at least.

I realise this sounds rather belated, but I started terrifically late, so from my point of view it's good news. I have a bad feeling that there will be a *lot* of revising and editing, but I'm not thinking about that, I'm just enjoying being able to get into it again. Whee!

I started putting updates in my LJ, too.

I have a heap of stupid little things I need to check on - is it feasible to put a sleazy pub or bar in a particular location, which side does Doyle have his holster on, the best route out of London towards (somewhere!), and so on, but I am ignoring them for now (unless - guys? - Doyle and holster?)

It's weird actually writing this year instead of lurking around the sidelines playing at being a beta, or even just a reader saying 'yes, yes, keep on with it!'. I miss watching other people's stories take shape, and until mine is more than halfway there, I am chary of sending it anywhere - past history tells me that if I send the start of a story to people and say 'what do you think?', it doesn't matter what they think, I never get back to it and finish it. So I have to get further in.

On which note - free afternoon, and dentist appointment all done with. So back to the scribbling board!

Oh. And I am not going anywhere near TV Tropes! I showed it to a friend the other day and we ended up with about twenty tabs open in the browser and the realisation that we had to stop before the browser exploded!

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

TV Tropes really is utterly addictive isn't it.

It sounds like you are doing brlliantly with your story and we are all cheering you on with it *\o/*.

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

Your sample of the story cracked me up. Is Doyle on drugs or at an animal preserve? lol.

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

I strongly suspect it might be both :D

[inlovewithboth.livejournal.com]

Haven't even started my video (looks at the floor and shuffles toe in the dirt), but I do have a song and lots of ideas, so hope to get on with it soon xx

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

Having the song and ideas are really great and I know it'll be fabulous.

[minori-k.livejournal.com]

I've finished my first artwork for the story! And just started doing rough draft of second one ;-) My challenges have been going quite smoothly so far! Yay.

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

That is fantastic news, congrats on getting the first piece of art done \o/.

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

Almost done! A few things to tighten up and a check for those words that just seem to show up in every other sentence and it'll be good to go! About 18,500 words. And I've had a peak at some artwork - amazing!

[minori-k.livejournal.com]

Yay! Give me high-five!

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

That is fantastic, congrats on being just about done ♥.

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

Yay! Congrats!

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

I feel bad, because I wanted to get a much more complete version to my artistes weeks ago...

But I feel good, because I crested a hump, have a better idea of what I'm doing, and see an end of sorts in sight.



So - nothing scheduled this weekend beyond cleaning going to the community shredder on Saturday, so the plan is to get some serious writing done then send the draft to the artistes and People Who Will Read It.

Not going to follow your temptations, LOL, because I'll never get anything done ever again if I do!

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

It sounds to me like you are doing brilliantly and I just know it is going to be great.

Not going to follow your temptations, LOL, because I'll never get anything done ever again if I do!
Good call :D

[maddalia.livejournal.com]

Well I think I'm maybe, sort of, halfway through.

I'm actually pleased with it this week, which is different from the 'why do I bother?' of last week, the 'omg I'll never finish in time' of the week before, and the 'why can't I write anything good?' the week before that. And it is moving along at a reasonable pace. People have read bits of it and don't think it sucks. My glass is half-full.

I'm just hoping I've sewn up all the plot holes in the (albeit pretty complete and intricate) planning stage. Like how is Baddie A connected to Baddie B, how does Minor Character E know Minor Character G and Baddie A, and what's Baddie C got against Protagonist D? Are too many men snogging too many other men? And will the story, being of the (hopefully) mysterious sort, achieve the happy medium between Just Plain Bloody Obvious and Just Plain Bloody Confusing?

(Oh, never mind, I'll sort it, she thought to herself, reaching for the gin.)

Fellow writers, rejoice that thou art not in Maddalia-land this BB.

Yours perhaps over-ambitiously, yet quietly-confidently,
M.

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

Well I say being half way through is great news and I know that it will be fantastic to read.

[maddalia.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I hope so! :)

[maddalia.livejournal.com]

PS. I did the random story thing and it was most amusing. Thank you for sharing that, Vic! Mine ended like this.

Our heroes would've lived unhappily ever after, but they were too busy being dead. So, no one lived forever after, the end.

Except that's only what the story wants you to think. In reality there's a daring escape like in Spy Game, and they live happily ever after in a villa in the South of France.

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

The random story generator really is endlessly entertaining isn't it.

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

Only just seen this remark. Villas in the south of France? Heh.

[maddalia.livejournal.com]

Indeed yes, villas. Well. Just one, probably. I expect they'd want to live in the same one. Lots of vantage points for when the Secret Service baddies come after them and there's a shoot-out. Argh, this is turning into a Josh Lanyon novel. In which case the hero's dashing love interest is a doctor, not a lawyer. So that's just not acceptable; there must be a cute lawyer involved.

Note for the uninitiated: I'm talking about Out In The Dark, a recent film. *g*