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Just a Fairy Princess
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Enchanted Forest and/or editing cave
Posts: 23,867
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*tilts head and says in Barbie voice* "Edits are hard!"
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Searching for Wonderland
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Appalachia
Posts: 5,395
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I'm making progress, myself. Not terrific progress -- I hate working without an outline -- but I should make my word count.
Just keep going, Bettie. Keep pace with me, so I won't be doing this alone.
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Just a Fairy Princess
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Enchanted Forest and/or editing cave
Posts: 23,867
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3236 edited so far
Not feeling so very good about this. I hate second guessing everything.
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Currently editing: Dreadlight - Urban Fantasy 28,971 / 93,225 To edit: Nocturnelle - gothic romance - first draft The Last Hunter - fantasy - with a beta The Vampire Baron - gothic romance - need another edit Endways of the Gods - fantasy mish/mash - might be garbage Writing Blog: Happy Blogo-Versary to me Books with Bettielee Blog: Book of Lost Tales v 1 by Tolkien ![]()
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Ghost horse.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Near Hershey, PA
Posts: 22,451
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Me too with the second guessing.
Night folks.
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Just a Fairy Princess
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Enchanted Forest and/or editing cave
Posts: 23,867
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I have to keep editing... I've made too much coffee to stop now...
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Currently editing: Dreadlight - Urban Fantasy 28,971 / 93,225 To edit: Nocturnelle - gothic romance - first draft The Last Hunter - fantasy - with a beta The Vampire Baron - gothic romance - need another edit Endways of the Gods - fantasy mish/mash - might be garbage Writing Blog: Happy Blogo-Versary to me Books with Bettielee Blog: Book of Lost Tales v 1 by Tolkien ![]()
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Do not taunt Happy Fun Mod
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: the everlasting universe of things
Posts: 3,613
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Did my first revision pass on a story I finished last night, still only 4k which is kind of miraculous for me.
Not quite happy with it yet, but time for some laziness and TV-watchin' before tomorrow's tinkering resumes.
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Just a Fairy Princess
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Enchanted Forest and/or editing cave
Posts: 23,867
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ok - You Can't Touch This just came on my ipod.
Stop! Hammertime!
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Currently editing: Dreadlight - Urban Fantasy 28,971 / 93,225 To edit: Nocturnelle - gothic romance - first draft The Last Hunter - fantasy - with a beta The Vampire Baron - gothic romance - need another edit Endways of the Gods - fantasy mish/mash - might be garbage Writing Blog: Happy Blogo-Versary to me Books with Bettielee Blog: Book of Lost Tales v 1 by Tolkien ![]()
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Searching for Wonderland
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Appalachia
Posts: 5,395
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My favorite song in the whole world just came on Spotify: "Pure Imagination." I just love that song.
Almost done. Another 300 or so words, and I'm totally there!
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Just a Fairy Princess
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Enchanted Forest and/or editing cave
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and I just came to a spot where I switched from first to third.
Dayum.
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Currently editing: Dreadlight - Urban Fantasy 28,971 / 93,225 To edit: Nocturnelle - gothic romance - first draft The Last Hunter - fantasy - with a beta The Vampire Baron - gothic romance - need another edit Endways of the Gods - fantasy mish/mash - might be garbage Writing Blog: Happy Blogo-Versary to me Books with Bettielee Blog: Book of Lost Tales v 1 by Tolkien ![]()
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Just a Fairy Princess
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Enchanted Forest and/or editing cave
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ok, chapter 12 is done! 2297 edited, so a total of 5533 edited for the day.
I mentally shake hands with you, Junely, and now, I go to enjoy some period Drama. and the rest of the coffee.
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Currently editing: Dreadlight - Urban Fantasy 28,971 / 93,225 To edit: Nocturnelle - gothic romance - first draft The Last Hunter - fantasy - with a beta The Vampire Baron - gothic romance - need another edit Endways of the Gods - fantasy mish/mash - might be garbage Writing Blog: Happy Blogo-Versary to me Books with Bettielee Blog: Book of Lost Tales v 1 by Tolkien ![]()
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Searching for Wonderland
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Appalachia
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And I'm done! At least for tonight.
Whoo hoo! time for some Supernatural! Nothing like some pretty, pretty boys to give me sweet dreams.
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Just a Fairy Princess
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Enchanted Forest and/or editing cave
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ah, glad I'm done, too, as the beast has risen and demands more kibble in the dish....
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Currently editing: Dreadlight - Urban Fantasy 28,971 / 93,225 To edit: Nocturnelle - gothic romance - first draft The Last Hunter - fantasy - with a beta The Vampire Baron - gothic romance - need another edit Endways of the Gods - fantasy mish/mash - might be garbage Writing Blog: Happy Blogo-Versary to me Books with Bettielee Blog: Book of Lost Tales v 1 by Tolkien ![]()
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Waltzing with fae. Slowly.
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Posts: 5,524
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*waves at cantina*
Went to the Home & Garden Show. Left show with three bottles of wine. Got home with two. In between, there was a sudden stop. And now my car smells like chocolate wine. *sigh* Got lots of brochures for things. And now I want to get outside and work on the yard.
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Undercover, sort of...
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Alaska
Posts: 7,895
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Y'all have been productive today. Sorry about the wine...and the car...but mostly the wine, Amergina.
I'm eating pickled jalapenos and trying to learn Scrivener. It's so...complicated. |
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Waltzing with fae. Slowly.
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Posts: 5,524
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I want to use Scrivener, but it does seem so complicated. And organized. And stuff. The pantser in me gets really anxious when I see corkboards with notecards.
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Undercover, sort of...
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Alaska
Posts: 7,895
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That's good, at least. What winery is it? I've not really enjoyed the chocolate wines I've tried to date. I like my wine a little...challenging. ![]() I don't think it's that complicated. The instructions are just long-winded and I don't want to screw anything up. This story is non-chronological but I'm writing the scenes in chronological order to keep track of things. Then I have to splice it. I think this will organize it better than working in a single word doc or, like, 40 of them. |
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Doing Pirate things...
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: ...on my pirate ship.
Posts: 4,890
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Just remember that each notecard is a scene, you don't have to get much more complicated than that unless you want to. It took me a while to start learning about some of the cooler features of Scrivener.
Dudes! I can make a chain now! *is trying to learn to crochet for some reason* |
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Undercover, sort of...
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Alaska
Posts: 7,895
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Are you learning to crochet so that you can make yourself one of these? |
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Doing Pirate things...
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: ...on my pirate ship.
Posts: 4,890
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Also, let's all pretend that MrBugz didn't have to figure out this chain thing from the diagrams and then show me how to to it (repeatedly).
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Doing Pirate things...
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: ...on my pirate ship.
Posts: 4,890
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Undercover, sort of...
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Alaska
Posts: 7,895
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He all about chain things today, isn't he?
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Undercover, sort of...
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Alaska
Posts: 7,895
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Cause nothing says "this will be awesome wet" like lavender yarn!
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word-slinger
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Not Really Here
Posts: 38,142
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![]() Why?? No, never mind. I don't want to know why.
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Doing Pirate things...
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: ...on my pirate ship.
Posts: 4,890
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Rawr!~ Oh. Yeah. That.
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Waltzing with fae. Slowly.
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Posts: 5,524
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It was a bottle of cocoa vino. Pennsylvania has a bunch of little wineries everywhere. I really do need to learn to use Scrivener. Especially since I have a back-burner project that's going to require a bit of research and a mixing of three POVs. And planning. I think I actually have to plan this one out.
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