I now have 100 people who have friended this blog.
Yeah, I know there are blogs out there with 1000s of readers (heck, I think I'm friended to one or two authors here that have legions of fans), but I just wanted to say "Hi, and thanks!" to everyone who's friended me for whatever reason.
People say writers tend to be private individuals, but private, retiring and/or shy are adjectives that are not normally associated with me. So, to celebrate
neadods becoming the 100th victim . . . I mean person to friend this blog, I'll blatantly steal one of kradical's ideas and open the floor to questions. Any questions you might have for me (within reason and not covered by the National Security Act of 1948 *grin*) I'll do my best to answer.
All right, folks, take your best shots.
(goes to put on the flame-proof underwear)
Yeah, I know there are blogs out there with 1000s of readers (heck, I think I'm friended to one or two authors here that have legions of fans), but I just wanted to say "Hi, and thanks!" to everyone who's friended me for whatever reason.
People say writers tend to be private individuals, but private, retiring and/or shy are adjectives that are not normally associated with me. So, to celebrate
neadods becoming the 100th victim . . . I mean person to friend this blog, I'll blatantly steal one of kradical's ideas and open the floor to questions. Any questions you might have for me (within reason and not covered by the National Security Act of 1948 *grin*) I'll do my best to answer.All right, folks, take your best shots.
(goes to put on the flame-proof underwear)
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- 25 Jun 2012, 23:54Thanks! For some reason I was really sweating the LitCrit class. It wasn't easy by any stretch, but I think I made it harder on myself by overthinking stuff.
Just one class this fall (schedule just… - 25 Jun 2012, 10:09Oh wow. Congrats on the A's!
- 11 Mar 2012, 01:40I'm going to take a critique of Dracula based on one school of literary criticism (say, Neo-Marxist) and then deconstruct that critique using the focus of a different school of theory (say feminist,…
- 7 Mar 2012, 07:54Not this year, alas. But I may well take you up on that next time :)
- 7 Mar 2012, 01:55Well, if you want to fly over here, I can put you up at my place and get you a guest ticket. *grin* Might even try to get your opinion of my scotch collection.
Airfare is on you, though.
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The idea of trying to distill a 120,000 word story into two pages was extraordinarily daunting. I still don't think I have a good synopsis for it (luckily, the agent and I had discussed this and she took a longer one . . . I got turned down, but it was the chapters not the synopsis that did me in with her).
Needless to say, before I query anything else, I will have the synopsis as polished as my query and my chapters before it goes anywhere.
Work? Oh, there've been a few doozies, but they were hard because the developers I was working with were less than cooperative about providing me timely information until we were up against the deadline and then looking at me like, "Why didn't you ask for help?" Hello! What part of "hey, I need information" didn't you understand?
Edited at 2008-06-02 09:38 pm (UTC)
(I love your journal, btw, I like reading about the nitty-gritty of just getting things written. It's an area I need help with... )
Edited at 2008-06-02 01:19 pm (UTC)
My first comic sale was in 1992 when Troubleshooters Incorporated was published by a small press (Starwarp Concepts). I think I got paid $40 for writing/plotting the issues.
My first fiction sale was Assault on Avengers Mansion for the "Ultimate Hulk" anthology by Marvel Comics/Byron Preiss Multimedia. Each of us got to pitch a story for a different section of the Hulk's career. I wound up doing Avengers 1.5 with the Avengers fighting Doctor Doom three years before Roger Stern's version came out as a comic. It was a great experience and a learning one. Transferring from writing in a comic style to a prose style was a bit of a learning curve. (O.K., the envelope dripped red ink if you held it by one corner, but I had a good (and patient) editor and we got through it.)
(I thought you might like an easy one.)
The answer to both? Soon.