Lost at Sea notes · 11:38am Oct 30th, 2017
First, a big thanks to Georg for pre-reading, and to Conflicting Views, DarkEven, and thatotherguy, for helping with French translations.
First, a big thanks to Georg for pre-reading, and to Conflicting Views, DarkEven, and thatotherguy, for helping with French translations.
Pre-read by metallusionismagic and AShadowOfCygnus. Let's all give them a round of applause.
A lot of people know that Everfree Northwest is oriented towards writers (which is one of the reasons I wanted to go), and of course every year they host a contest called Scribblefest, which I got an honorable mention in one year.
But you might not know about the Iron Writer competition.
Pre-read by AShadowOfCygnus!
I'm not trolling you this time around; Aphrodite really is in this story and she looks just like that.
Chapter notes are back! Yay!
A special thanks to my pre-readers!
metallusionsismagic, AShadowOfCygnus,
and Forderz
As well as creative consultants:
A big thinks to MSPiper and AshadowOfCygnus for prereading, as usual at the very last minute.
Here comes another one.
Obligatory Monty Python Reference
Like a lot of writers (I assume), I wind up with lots of little ideas that wouldn't really fit into a proper story, or at least not one that I happen to be working on at any particular time. Generally, they're little worldbuildy ideas, and as often as not I make myself a little note so that I'll remember them.
Now that the site seems to be working again, here's a placeholder for the current project:
It keeps getting longer, for some reason. I was expecting a one-shot, and at about 5,000 words, we've only just learned how to resolve the problem. Also I'm giving Zecora too much dialogue. She either needs to stop talking, or I need to quit being so OCD about her couplets.
Today I made a small (?) edit to "The Blue and the Gray". I decided to upgrade its reader rating from everyone to teen. I hope that this didn't inconvenience any of my readers out there, but I had to wonder if some of my recent use of profanity had disqualified my story from at least some of the audience out there. Yeah, I know, does anyone running this operation ever proofread this thing and catch stuff like this. Personally, I doubt it. But it felt like the right thing to do.
I feel like there is a lot to go over on these two chapters, while at the same time it feels like everything is pretty simple and straight forward.
This blog post will contain big spoilers for the last two chapters of A Survey, which I've just published. So don't read this unless you're caught up.
As always, a big thanks to my pre-readers! AShadowOfCygnus, metallusionismagic, and MSPiper!
Anyway, it was inspired by this dumb blog I did, and then encouraged by jack & Coke in the early hours of the morning.
As I sometimes do, I'm gonna give you the dramaturge first, and then at the end we'll have the story notes and whatnot.