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Posted on 11/03/2004 6:16:42 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red, |
Still round the corner there may wait |
Home is behind, the world ahead, |
Good heavens!
See, this is one reason I always lock my car. There are fifteen trillion identical little red cars in the world, but my keys hopefully only unlock one of them!
I have been getting somewhere on my novel! And on yours, too, but more slowly because I can't seem to come up with many useful tips.
Well, I tan really well, surprising I know, and I can tell 'em I'm from the ABC islands. Lot's of lowlanders there.
Heh...if I were writing for anyone but Teresa, I'd say the best advice would be to scrap it and start over...and try to make SOMETHING happen before it gets to 35k...
I'm not good at pushing characters out the door. But as I keep repeating to myself, this is good practice. ;-)
It's very good practice. You are quite good at descriptions, and the four actual characters you have are nicely filled in. Katy's family are all just placeholders, even her mom, though. But that's something I struggle with all the time. It's hard to make secondary characters matter!
The logic seems to hold together well. I can see who Patrick's mom is, but probably Teresa won't?
Hopefully she won't get it right off, anyway.
Yeah, secondary characters are tough! *sigh*
I really wish I could do her family better, especially. But without making them a lot more of the story...it's hard to do. I have far too much already that happens in the "real world" before anything really starts. Only a small fraction of it is useful story development
Heh. Way back when there was this lady that had not only the same kind/color car we did, but her keys fit the locks in our car. She was a bit puzzled to open the trunk of the car after a PeeWee football game to find it packed with football helmets. (Dad was the coach.)
When my parents first met, it turned out their keys fit one another's cars. They both had Fords from about the same time period - but totally different models.
Which doesn't really pertain to the current conversation, but Mom thought it was neat.
Actually, it's a good idea in a "fantastic world" story, to show the heroine anchored tightly to the real world. Sometimes I wonder why the characters go home, since the fantasy worlds are so much more fun. If you bring in the belonging-ness, well...
The only story I ever co-wrote I wrote with my dearest friend and we used that as a theme. So the happy ending we wanted to use - our characters reunited with their true loves - wasn't the "real" ending. We couldn't use it. They had to go home, and the true loves remained. I guess neither of us really believes that "love conquers all".
OK. What are the ABC islands?
5 bows, now...
I've got FOTREE on. Hope I stay awake until the end.
I'm all hyped up on caffeine and nerves. Dunno how well I'll sleep tonight...
Can we skip Monday?
Okay by me!
I think it would be well if you would post a pic of you in your island shirts, so Ruthy and me can let you know, if you would be under the radar in Miami.
Yes, let's!
This week, other than the finals, shouldn't be too bad. I hope. And I just finished off a chapter so I get to write another... hmm... I'm trying to write a semi-transitional chapter about the boring character of my three main characters so I'm clueless.
I take far too long to tell anything.
I dunno what I'm afraid of.
I do a lot of writing descriptive nice meals when really they SHOULD be off battling the forces of evil, so to speak...
Good evening all! Steve is off working on his final exam (take home). Once it's finished, he's done with shcool for this semester! Woohooo! He'll just have to turn it in on Tuesday, and that's it.
He's hoping to finish it tonight...I hope he does. This semester has really kicked his butt, if you'll forgive me. Been very hard on him. It's why we've kinda given up hope of him finishing by May...it's still "possible"...but he worked so hard on this one particular class that he didn't get much thesis worked on. It's looking like he'll be finished sometime this next summer. But definitely that's it. He only has one more "class" he has to take...the rest is thesis. I don't know if that makes sense...it hardly does to me, but that's my understanding.
In fact, that's what I'm currently doing, again. *sigh*
I didn't mean to! But it makes for an opening for discussion, and I guess that's OK. But they do too much discussing, too. And thinking. And eating.
The descriptive meals sound better than fighting battles.
Heh...but good literature has to have both, I'd think!
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