Beta Readers Wanted
I’ve just written a creepy story for All Hallow’s Read.
I need a better title, methinks. And it’s going to need a cover.
Mayhem just read it in less than ten minutes. All I’m asking is half an hour -max - of your time and FEEDBACK.
And if one of y'all can bodge together a cool cover? That would be awesome.
Who’s in?
Beta Reader Announce
I am whittling my beta reader list down to the three people who actually got back to me about stuff.
If you never got an email from me, we need to debug that. Assuming you still want to beta-read.
Either way, action needs to be taken.
ask me thinnnnnggggssssssss ask me ask me
Reblog If You Are A Writer Of Any Kind And Want To Be Asked These Questions
A: What do you write? Fanfiction, original fiction, nonfiction, articles, songs, poems, essays, plays, what?B: How often do you write?
C: Who is your favorite character of your own? Who is your favorite character created by somebody else? Why?
D: If you had the choice of going without writing forever or going without dinner forever, which one would you choose?
E: Have you ever participated in National Novel Writing Month or any of its variations?
F: What’s your favorite book? Favorite author?
G: What’s your least favorite book? Least favorite author?
H: How long have you been writing?
I: What grades do you/did you get in English class?
J: What does writing mean to you?
K: Share an old, embarrassing work?
L: What advice would you give to other writers?
M: How do you feel when somebody gives harsh yet constructive criticism?
N: Which writing blogs and writing help blogs do you follow?
O: What motivates you to write?
P: What are your goals for things to happen to your writing? (Getting published, getting a good review, having a fandom, etc)
Q: How do you get through writer’s block?
R: What genre do you write in?
S: Would you let a stranger off the streets read your first drafts?
T: What’s your favorite part of the writing process? Why?
U: What’s your least favorite part of the writing process? Why?
V: What do you listen to when you write?
W: What’s your biggest pet peeve in writing?
X: (Leave a prompt in the person’s ask box)
Y: How would you describe the perfect prose? How would you describe your own prose?
Z: How often do you read?
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I write stories for you!
Send them in a submission, please. That one lets you do links.
And every day, a new story based on a prompt will come forth from my possibly deranged mind and bless your dash with fiction. [I’m assuming you follow me]
There’s no such thing as a bad prompt. There may be such a thing as a bad story. You’ll find out when I get to your prompt.
I work on a queue, so first in is first served.
What are you waiting for? Click that link and send me something juicy.
[C'mon. My muse is running low on fuel]
Asks for Writers
Put one of these in my ask box, and receive an answer.
1. Of all of the original characters you have written, do you have a favorite?
2. Is there a ship/show for whom/which you are interested in writing yet are intimidated to try?
3. Have you ever written a chapter/scene that made you cry? Which one(s)?
4. Which of your stories would you most like to see made into a movie?
5. Is there a character you find particularly difficult to write? Which one? On the flip-side, which character flows most easily for you when writing?
6. Are there writers from other fandoms whom you admire? If so, whom?
7. Do you have a favorite story among your body of work?
8. Do you have a story that consistently challenges you? (or has challenged you in the past?)
9. Have any of your multi-chaptered fics grown out of prompts submitted on tumblr? Do you enjoy receiving prompts, anonymous or otherwise?
10. Do you have an idea for a story that intrigues you but haven’t been able to piece together? What would it take to inspire you to actually write it?
11. Have you ever created alternate versions of your own stories? Are there any you are tempted to write?
12. Do you sneak personal references into any of your stories? Would you care to share some examples?
OOH. ASK ME. I’M WORKING ON A TOUGH SCENE. DISTRACT ME.
Ask me these. Become part of the inner circle.
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Small-Batch Writing
I’ve entered a phase of novel-writing which partly resembles novel-writing and partly resembles something else—something furtive, like low-level espionage, or a secret drug addiction.
For the past two months or so I was writing full time, flat-out, or as flat-out as you can get in this age of modern distractions like Twitter and Kingdom Rush and babies-who-for-some-reason-don’t-feed-themselves. Now I’m back at work.
But when you’ve got enough momentum going with a novel, and you’ve got a bunch of deadlines for that novel that you’ve agreed to, in writing, you can’t just stop. So you don’t stop.
Instead you go dark.
For example: in the mornings I work from home for an hour or two before I go into the office. Not because there’s any particular reason for me to do that, except that by the time I hit the subway rush hour is over, which means I can probably get a seat, and if I get a seat I can crack open my MacBook Air and steal 20-25 minutes of writing time.
I’m always on the lookout for little gaps like that in my schedule: anytime I can get a block of 10 minutes or more, I take it. I write in waiting rooms. I write in cars while other people are driving (this is very boring for them, but I do it anyway). I write while pasta is boiling.
Sometimes when I’m taking care of my kids they fall asleep, or lose consciousness for other reasons. The second they do I’m at my keyboard. Ninja writer strikes! Then I go back to changing diapers.
It’s not ideal. It’s tough to keep your concentration, with your time chopped up like that. But on the plus side you tend to come at your writing from new angles, freshly, the way you would somebody else’s book. And there’s plenty of time for your subconscious to process things and toss out ideas while you’re distracted by other things. I get my best ideas 10 minutes after I’ve stopped writing and gone on to something else.
And since you’re writing in the spaces in between work, your brain automatically categorizes writing time as play. Which is as it should be.
But it means leading a bit of a double life. I don’t always feel great about it. I don’t know who said, ‘books are written with time stolen from other people’ (Paolo Bacigalupi? Anyway I heard it from him), but it’s true. I’m engaging in petty time-thievery, all day, every day.
If nothing else, it motivates you. What you’re writing had damn well better be worth it.
—
Lev Grossman
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I totally do this.
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GPOY.
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ATTN: Beta Readers (yes you)
Time’s running down towards the June release of the third book of the Hevun’s Child trilogy.
Please send all comments/opinions ASAP, if not sooner. I know it should have reached all'a y'all, because I sent it out on an individual basis.
I need to make the edits RSN so that it’s ready for the market. Hurry up and read, darn it!
People ask me how I can possibly write all the things I write.
I just don’t stop.
When I’m not working on my novel [500 words a day, six days a week] I get all sorts of plot bunnies, so I have numerous fics in progress at any given time.
When I hit a wall, I always have something else to work on. When I lack inspiration for one thing, I usually have another story that I can push a few sentences into.
With my novel writing, I have a simple rule: when in doubt, describe something.
Fanfic’s a lot more forgiving. The only schedules that has is the ones I impose on myself. The odd patch of inspiration doesn’t hurt, either. I’m in my element when I’m bouncing off of like-minded weirdoes :D
I write during every conscious moment. Even when I’m driving, there’s some part of my brain in daydreamland figuring out some linkage of words that could possibly be pure gold.
Hell, I even ‘type’ when I’m stimming.
I have no brakes. Which gives me no breaks.