I've Created a Monster...

[scribblemyname]

This entry is part 65 of 65 in the series Daily Scribble Reports

So I wrote a 2391-word treat for the ficathon. I hadn’t intended to do that. At all. :headdesk: I promised myself whatever I wrote on the ficathon, I’d match on the collaboration, so here goes.

In the hour and a half before 12:07, maybe 12:09, I forget which, I wrote 2304 words on the collaboration. The time of night showed. :shudders:

On a side note, the Invisible Ficathon has really brought back to my mind how much it matters to show the fictional literary and popular culture in a story if your characters are well-read. It makes me want to develop my own 'invisible canons.' It makes me want to remember to add in books and authors and shows and cultural touch points that 'everybody' knows. It makes me think.

Publishing gave me another cover headache. I emailed Createspace and told them to give me a hard figure for what size with bleed a cover for this trim size should be. I'm tired of it constantly shaving things just slightly wrong.

Word Counts:

• Fiction: 4695 words
• Poetry: 0 lines | 0 words
• Blog: 171 words

February Totals

• Fiction: 10,325 words
• Poetry: 73 lines | 451 words
• Blog: 3416 words

Pieces Started Not Finished

• Fiction: Hear the Stars, novella.
• Nonfiction/Blog: Indie Author Guide to Genre, book/blog series.
• Fanfic: Invisible Ficathon Treat.

Completed Pieces

• Fanfic: “Wholeness of Self,” 783 words.
• Poem: "Tell Me," 8 lines | 37 words.
• Poem: "Mother," 8 lines | 22 words.
• Fanfic: Invisible Ficathon Treat, 269 words.
• Poem: "Native," 31 lines| 232 words.
• Poem: "Moderation," 6 lines| 20 words.
• Poem: "I Should Think," 20 lines| 140 words.
• Fanfic: Invisible Ficathon Treat, 2391 words.

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Comments

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

There are a few places I can think of where that invisible fiction would apply to the collaboration, one more in the sense of popular culture (Enadar's song that Felise hates so much) but then there is where he reads to her and... well, lots of other references to books.

I could even hear Malina saying something about liking Alik's stories better than [author.]

[scribblemyname]

I was thinking that too! It would be fun to go and add things like that in there.

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

Yes, but it could easily become a monster.

We have Vred saying the stories are history and Alik has recycled bits of what he read for his stories, so...

Although... I admit that I did like Andromeda's thing with the quotes at the beginning of each episode and did something similar in a previous joint fiction, with quotes from historical text and other sayings.

[scribblemyname]

Oh. I just meant actually adding a tiny bit of specificity to where we were vague. I'm not into quotes at this point or even an in-depth development. Like Malina saying she liked Alik's stories better than so and so's.

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

Okay.

That will keep it under control. For now.

:)

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

You'll be pleased to know I have plenty of invisible fiction in this sequel.

Also, duly noted: you have Hear the Stars, I'm writing Finding the Stars. What a fun coincidence.

Off to do a few things, including beta reading!

[scribblemyname]

How exciting!

We are, in many ways, two writers of a kind. Different weaknesses and strengths perhaps, but rather similar in the stuff we like I think.

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

I tend to agree, for the most part.

[scribblemyname]

Yes, that's the phrase I kept looking for: for the most part.