Part Two: There’s A Draft in Here. 132 of Them.
I started out with eight pages of drafts. I now have five pages, and two of them are keepers. Stay tuned for Part Three: There’s A Draft in Here. 97 of Them. (But forty of those are already Rethink or Finish, so PROGRESS.)
DELETE
Yarn Lust. Inane.
The Girl in the Twenty-first Century. Did this in a different post.
Sisterhood: The Necklace. Krissie gave me a great necklace for my birthday. Not a blog post.
Contemplating Argh: Thinking about what the blog should be again. Just write the damn thing, Jenny, it’s your blog.
Two ReFab posts I’d moved here. No idea why.
Building a Romance Heroine and Hero. That was it. Just the title.
New Who: Loved Capaldi, bitched about everything else. Nope.
Leverage Post Links. I think that ship has sailed.
Animation: Just had a URL.
Right Now, In This Moment: Nope.
Sleep and Play and Brene Brown:The idea is fine, the post is not.
Supporting Characters: Good topic, bad post.
Blast from the Past: Haunting Alice: Opening scene from Haunting Alice. Nah.
Sunday 1: Pilot by Protagonist: Huh?
Subsequently on Leverage: Nope.
Leverage Sunday: Villainous Antagonists: Good topic but the post was just the URL: http://io9.gizmodo.com/whats-the-sick...
Sharp Soap: Why I’m An Arrow Fangirl: Published then pulled when I thought this was the post that had been hacked.
The Poll That Wouldn’t Die: About the e-book pricing poll that used to be up here. Nah.
Work Ethic: A bit about leaving things to last minute and Russell T. Davies.
The Frog Principle: The After Beta Draft: Nope.
The Frog Principle: The Beta Critiques: No critiques. Huh.
The Hero’s Journey in Puppets: Not that accurate, not that good, not worth writing about: http://io9.gizmodo.com/joseph-campbel...
What Peace There Maybe Be in Silence: Blurry picture of sleeping dogs. Huh?
It’s Time for a Change, But Not That Much: Incoherent musing on the demands publishing makes on story.
The Twelve Days of Emmeline: So old, it’s before I changed “Emmeline” to “Andromeda.”
This Is the New Normal. Life change stuff. Nah.
Juice vs. Craft: Inane.
MPDG: A broken link to an article on the Manic Pixie Dream Girl.
The Visual Soundtrack: AKA collage. No.
Frozen, the Honest Trailer: which is just a link to the Honest Trailer which is pretty damn funny:
RETHINK
Plotkillers: Just notes but good ones.
Quantum Storytelling: An idea from Toni that I did a lot of word salad on. Good idea, though.
Internuts: Why you shouldn’t argue on the internet even if other people are abusive idiots. Hmmm.
Romance Discovery. This is all over the place, but there might be something salvageable in there. Maybe.
The Monday Street Collage, Week By Week. I think I’ve done plenty on the Monday Street Collage, but I’ll hold onto this one until I can check.
Good Characters, Bad Choices: How the choices characters make shape their characters. Needs work.
Leverage Season Five: The Epilogue: Mostly about ending a story when it’s time. Not sure about this one.
This Post is a Time Sink. I went to TV Tropes for the Evil Overlord list and found Roger Ebert’s “Cooter Rule” and other brilliant things he said. I should look at Roger Ebert again; the man is brilliant even if he hated Trenchcoat (worst production values in the history of moviemaking but a fun story).
Setting Up Characters: Good idea but only intro and outline.
E-Book Pricing: A Review: This really needs to be updated because there’s so much interesting stuff out on there on e-book reading now.
Homage, Plagiarism, Referencing and Appropriating: Good topic, just the intro done.
Don’t Bogart That Story: Terrible title, good idea about never saving anything for later in storytelling.
Translating Wilder: 10 Rules for Good Storywriting. Billy Wilder’s rules which I was going to adapt. Not sure if I want to bother, but I’ll look at it again.
You Again: Rules for Golden Age Mystery Writing: This really needs cut and focused and a closer look at how hundred-year-old writing rules might apply.
So Why Was That Good For You? The start of a post on why some lines/details resonate. Needs work.
Design, Creativity, Craftsmanship: A post about evaluating creative work. Needs work.
Comfort Zone: Just a URL but a good topic.
The Image Rant, Not: Talking about getting angry about the way romance is treated. Not sure it’s still timely, but talking about public expression of anger probably is.
Why Are These People Having Sex? Motivation for sex scenes.
Charlie Jane Anders’ Ten Qualities for an Escapist Protagonist: Good list from Anders, must think about it.
FINISH
Questionable: Character Chemistry
Questionable: How-To-Write Books
The Leverage Final: Schmuck Bait and Chaos I hated the Leverage series finale which is probably why I couldn’t bring myself to finish
this (I loved the series so much and then THIS?). But it’s a good topic so I need to cowgirl up.
Schmuck Bait: A topic that must be addressed, probably combined with the one before this.
Questionable: Starting a Story
Questionable: Patterned Structure
Questionable: Focus for Writers
The Ordinary Guy: This is a great topic and a good start. Definitely finish this one.
Bonini’s Paradox: Great topic, must finish
SCHEDULED
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