I've Created a Monster...
Feb. 21st, 2014 09:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.
Originally published at Liana Mir. You can comment here or there.
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Date: 2014-02-21 05:54 pm (UTC)I could even hear Malina saying something about liking Alik's stories better than [author.]
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Date: 2014-02-21 06:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-02-21 06:33 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2014-02-21 06:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-02-21 06:49 pm (UTC)That will keep it under control. For now.
:)
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Date: 2014-02-21 08:20 pm (UTC)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!
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Date: 2014-02-21 08:39 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2014-02-21 09:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-02-21 09:09 pm (UTC)