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Re: Arting Harder at the Pen Monkey Toiling Pit (Celebrate Them Pages Pt III)
« Reply #135 on: May 27, 2014, 09:59:51 PM »
sooo final year of highschool/alevel exams means I have to stop my self writing
soo every time I wake up I get a new idea for a past project or a new one
my brain it hates me
and I have to be sooo self controled not to write short stories in my lunch brakes (as I wont stop until they are finished)

I am proberly never going to manage really long novels any time soon...
but as I find short stories fun I am okay with that

the bright side to not allowing my self to write till I finish exams is I can listen to neuro read one of their books
which is awesome
and a lot of fun
and they really need to be less modist about their stuff

okay enough ego stroking/ wishing I could write more

good luck everyone

(I am 19 if I finish a project and it does not make some's eyes bleed to look at it that is awesome)
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Re: Arting Harder at the Pen Monkey Toiling Pit (Celebrate Them Pages Pt III)
« Reply #136 on: May 27, 2014, 10:07:21 PM »
I'd say you're off to a hell of a good start, just keep making "butt in chair" time happen.  In the meantime, I suggest getting "Scrivener."  Great program.  Any idea you get that you don't have time to sink your teeth into, just open a new project for it, slap down those basic concept or character sketches you have, and you can get back to them later without fear of forgetting the idea...
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Re: Arting Harder at the Pen Monkey Toiling Pit (Celebrate Them Pages Pt III)
« Reply #137 on: May 27, 2014, 10:13:55 PM »
Ooh good idea I am still using the pen and note book method...
Might just find Kindle app due to possibility of losing all files and computer access in the next month


Yeah I can't compare my writing to others as I have not been doing it long enough or read as many books as them...
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Re: Arting Harder at the Pen Monkey Toiling Pit (Celebrate Them Pages Pt III)
« Reply #138 on: May 28, 2014, 01:02:31 AM »
Comparison is useless. Forget it. You want your own voice and your own story and tell it in your own way. Art is art.

You know what I wish I'd done at your age? Forget even the short stories if you're out of time. Forget sentences! Just write your emotions. Write what happens during your day. Write about your friends. Write about your hopes. Write about your dreams.

As a young adult writer, what I wouldn't give for all those journals I tossed after college. What a freaking waste! I wish I had those written words so I could remember what it really was like being your age.

Write! Maybe it's not even a sentence. Maybe it's just a thought. Write! And don't freaking throw it away when you run out of space. LOL That was my situation. Yours? Get it on a flash drive and don't lose it!

Best wishes moon. You inspire me!
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Re: Arting Harder at the Pen Monkey Toiling Pit (Celebrate Them Pages Pt III)
« Reply #139 on: May 28, 2014, 01:06:41 PM »
I try to do that...
its about the only use my FB and LJ accounts get these days

keep writing!
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Re: Arting Harder at the Pen Monkey Toiling Pit (Celebrate Them Pages Pt III)
« Reply #140 on: May 28, 2014, 04:07:42 PM »
OK, so I'm in official cut down the words. I got it down a 1000 yesterday. Today, I included an adjustment to key scene, cut out the blasted dog that I thought was cute (even the crit group liked it) but I didn't want to continue to worry about where the heck it was all the time during the action scene--and I didn't want to add yet another character---

Even so, I'm up about 350 words.  arghh.

And I'm meeting with the press' marketing person today. That's exciting.
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Re: Arting Harder at the Pen Monkey Toiling Pit (Celebrate Them Pages Pt III)
« Reply #141 on: May 29, 2014, 07:50:59 PM »
writing a plan for new project
really want to do first bit today...
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Re: Arting Harder at the Pen Monkey Toiling Pit (Celebrate Them Pages Pt III)
« Reply #142 on: June 01, 2014, 01:51:33 AM »
Wrote 4k yesterday and got up to 56k on Admiral Invincible.



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Re: Arting Harder at the Pen Monkey Toiling Pit (Celebrate Them Pages Pt III)
« Reply #143 on: June 01, 2014, 06:07:46 PM »
just over 500 words on new project... not bad

also read/listened to three of neuros chapters
which are awesome
but OMG CLIFF HANGERS!!!!!!

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Re: Arting Harder at the Pen Monkey Toiling Pit (Celebrate Them Pages Pt III)
« Reply #144 on: June 02, 2014, 08:53:41 AM »
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Re: Arting Harder at the Pen Monkey Toiling Pit (Celebrate Them Pages Pt III)
« Reply #145 on: June 02, 2014, 03:19:10 PM »
Actually adding more words in edit rather than cutting. I'm in shock. I really am improving; as what I've written is tight and strong. I'll still need to cut words to be where I want, but I'm okay w press at this length if need be.

There is a subthread that I'm worried might be an author's little precious, but I hope not. Might even do two versions (1 w/out and 1 with) & then decide.
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Re: Arting Harder at the Pen Monkey Toiling Pit (Celebrate Them Pages Pt III)
« Reply #146 on: June 05, 2014, 06:41:22 AM »
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Re: Arting Harder at the Pen Monkey Toiling Pit (Celebrate Them Pages Pt III)
« Reply #147 on: June 05, 2014, 08:31:23 AM »
Quote from: meg_evonne on June 02, 2014, 03:19:10 PM
Actually adding more words in edit rather than cutting. I'm in shock. I really am improving; as what I've written is tight and strong. I'll still need to cut words to be where I want, but I'm okay w press at this length if need be.

There is a subthread that I'm worried might be an author's little precious, but I hope not. Might even do two versions (1 w/out and 1 with) & then decide.

That subthread could be your 'ugly doorknob'.  A friend told me about the 'ugly doorknob' theory years ago.
He said that people buying a new house unconsciously or maybe consciously want to be able to change/correct
something so if you give them a really 'ugly doorknob'  - they can happily change something and will
tend to be more forgiving of other things elsewhere in the house.  I suspect that editors are probably
the same.  Give them an 'ugly doorknob' so they can put their 'stamp' on a piece and they may be
less likely to savage other parts of your work.  I thought it an interesting theory and a moderately
plausible one.
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Re: Arting Harder at the Pen Monkey Toiling Pit (Celebrate Them Pages Pt III)
« Reply #148 on: June 06, 2014, 11:50:28 AM »
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Re: Arting Harder at the Pen Monkey Toiling Pit (Celebrate Them Pages Pt III)
« Reply #149 on: June 07, 2014, 02:03:03 PM »
Snowleopard. Love the ugly doorknob story. Stackpole once in conference said to leave something icky for editors. They'll focus on that rather than other stuff.

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