Today I mostly wrote ... the word count thread. Showing 1,301-1,350 of 4,252

[M.T.]

Woot! I managed 1060 on Friday and I'm pretty sure I did over 500 this morning. That may well be it for the holidays, I shall have to see, but I may manage some progress on the eyebombing book as it's non fiction. Also hope to start the stories about my parents thing.

Cheers

MTM

[Jim]

M.T. wrote: "Also hope to start the stories about my parents thing...."

seriously you should. Because you'll lay out the problems in a way that people can relate to. It'll be a warning to those coming up to that stage and a comfort to those living through it to know they're not on their own!

[Alicia]

M.T. wrote: "Woot! I managed 1060 on Friday and I'm pretty sure I did over 500 this morning. That may well be it for the holidays, I shall have to see, but I may manage some progress on the eyebombing book as i..."

The parents thing is timely - we're all getting older.

[M.T.]

Well I was going to tell the funny stories I know about them. Things like the time someone blew in to see Mum just as we were going out and she dragged me into a cupboard where we hid until our visitor had gone.

[Will]

I've actually done some query letter and submissions for the first time in ages. Made me feel nostalgic. And nervous.

[Jim]

I'm been submitting more to magazines.

I looked at Fantasycon again this year but it started looking expensive with them wanting dealers to pay membership as well as a table.
Then I saw SASE 2017 Sandbach
http://booksignings.weebly.com/

Saturday 23rd September 2017
so I've booked a table there :-)

[M.T.]

Looks good. Too far away for me sadly.

[Kath]

Just picked up a story I was last working on six weeks ago and written another 1091 words. Rather pleased!

[M.T.]

Woot! ;-)

[Jim]

M.T. wrote: "Looks good. Too far away for me sadly."

well if there's anybody in the area come and say hello :-)

[Will]

Most conventions include a membership in the table cost. I thought about Fantasycon, but have made a conscious choice to limit myself to one day only events - or two days if it is in sensible driving range. The cons are great fun, but get very expensive if you do them all. Plus a lot of the time it is the same audience. I bet that by doing Edge-lit and Bristolcon, I get a huge chunk of the Fantasycon audience. At a lot less money.

[Jim]

Yes, and bitter experience showed that Sunday at a con could be totally dead. I sold one book on Sunday at Scarborough and most of the traders around me sold none!

Is there going to be a Sledge Lit this year? I'm tempted by that as a one day event

[Will]

Yes Sledge lit is on again. I've booked my place already.

The sci fi piece is now at 20K and the next horror at about 8K.

[Kath]

472 today but I've had a few other things on!

[Tim]

As is utterly predictable by now, NaNo fell by the roadside - been over 2 weeks since I had time to write anything. Ah well, there's always next year...

[Will]

I've had a detailed rejection letter for my sci fi stuff from one of the UK's best known agents. I thought I'd share this part of his email.

Length. The US can be more hidebound, but I have only sold one debut under 100,000 words long in the last decade. I’m looking at 120k as normal for SF – longer for epic fantasy, of course.

[Jim]

So if I glue Swords for a Dead Lady, and Dead Man Riding East together and call them one book I'm getting close!

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Swords for a Dead Man Riding East.

[Jim]

Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "Swords for a Dead Man Riding East."

Dead ladies with swords?

A very different book :-)

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Undead Ladies With Swords? Depends whether they are vampires, zombies, werebitches or animated skeletons.

[Jim]

Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "Undead Ladies With Swords? Depends whether they are vampires, zombies, werebitches or animated skeletons."

I don't do sparkly vampires!

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Did I mention sparkles? No, I did not.

[Will]

Do you get steampunk vampires?

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Yes, apparently

[Alicia]

Will wrote: "I've had a detailed rejection letter for my sci fi stuff from one of the UK's best known agents. I thought I'd share this part of his email.

Length. The US can be more hidebound, but I have only ..."

I write mainstream. Not that I would submit to an agent, but about half the readers who run into it say it's too long; the other half can't get enough.

[M.T.]

Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "Did I mention sparkles? No, I did not."

I say absolutely no to all vampires. Spaghetti or not ... or even sparkly or not - thank you auto correct.

Length seems arbitrary so I'd say wrote what feels right but what do I know. :-)

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Spaghetti vampire would be rather a niche market!

[Jim]

Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "Spaghetti vampire would be rather a niche market!"

After the way Italian chefs have been attacking Nigella over the way she's improved various Italian dishes, I suspect writing spaghetti vampires would get you into serious issues with them

On the other hand, Spaghetti Westerns did rather well, so if you did Spaghetti Vampires as a film script you might be onto something

[M.T.]

Uh-oh I can feel an idea coming on. :-) maybe the spaghetti, itself, becomes the vampire and goes round drowning people in spaghetti sauce.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

You think that red stuff is all sauce?

[M.T.]

Maybe, after its cooked. Or We we talking black pudding vampires?

[Will]

Do you two mind? I'm vegetarian

[Kath]

Yeah, but green pudding's not the same, somehow.
Will was going to be a tree surgeon, but he faints at the sight of sap...

[M.T.]

:-)

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Will wrote: "Do you two mind? I'm vegetarian"

You won't be once you're an undead!

[Will]

Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "Will wrote: "Do you two mind? I'm vegetarian"

You won't be once you're an undead!"

And how would you know that?

[Will]

Kath wrote: "Yeah, but green pudding's not the same, somehow.
Will was going to be a tree surgeon, but he faints at the sight of sap..."

Just a poor sap me, that's right...

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Will wrote: "Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "Will wrote: "Do you two mind? I'm vegetarian"

You won't be once you're an undead!"

And how would you know that?"

Well how many zombies have you met who stumble around saying "Grainnnnzzzz"

[Will]

When they scream 'Brraaaiiiinnnsss' I naturally assumed that they meant the locally brewed beer.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

That doesn't sound very appetising. Even aside from being beer...

[M.T.]

Brains isn't bad but there are better beers in Wales as far as I remember. And a whiskey which I haven't tried but hear is very good!

[Elizabeth]

Is Felin Foel still around (known as Feelin' Foul to those who wanted to take the...)?

[Kath]

859 this morning on the new story - after a planning and time-line session.

[Alicia]

Kath wrote: "859 this morning on the new story - after a planning and time-line session."

You are a good role model, Kath. I will try to emulate.

[Kath]

Thank you! Usually I get part way through a story and then realise I should have thought this out!

[Pam]

Spent a few days formatting and reformatting the book because I realised I wanted to change something minor, then that Kindle Previewer 3 isn't in beta any more so thought I should use that for my testing. Had a few glitches before it would work, and also discovered a July update to the Kindle Publishing Guidelines, and had to make a few tweaks to comply with those. At least I understood what they meant which is an improvement on when I tried to read it last summer!

[Alicia]

Finally. Finished 24.111 - over 2K scene - and listened to it. I do my fine-tuning that way. Amazing what you catch when the robot voice reads your deathless prose back like a zombie.

Believe it or not, I'm faster than I used to be. This took a week - not months.

I believe the word is 'chuffed.'

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Yay!! Well done Alicia!

[Kath]

Well chuffed!

[Kath]

782 today. Pootling along.