Hey folks, I'm trying to get more active with posting. I'll probably fail and go two weeks without posting soon but whatever.
First off I have no idea as to why the chapter of CV, ch8 was posted like that. I'm going to try to tinker with it to get it to work.
Second off, Red Sox advanced, yay. Good for us, bad for you if you're fans of the Angels or any other team that has been eliminated.
As for actual writing, the new chapter of Terra is around 90% done. I'm going through and editing it out, I want to tweak things a bit. That usually takes a bit longer, but it reads better than I thought it did when I started tweaking. I have to clean up some dialogue and work on things. I'm almost halfway done that, but I have to work on two scenes and really give it a workover. The major plot is there but I have to make sure that everything makes sense plotwise, and characterwise.
So the weekend is coming, and once again I have a lot of errands to take care of. I'll either do none and write, some and write some, or all of it and write none. My guess is that I'll probably do some of the errands tonight and tommorow night, and take care of the writing and editing this weekend. It's tougher now because I have baseball playoffs and the Patriots on Sunday. Even though I don't really have a horse in the NLCS, I enjoy playoff baseball. Of course Tim McCarver and Joe Buck might be enough to keep me from watching every game.
If you're fans of nerdcore hiphop, Mc Frontalot has started preorders of his new cd, it's pretty good. If you're fans of browser based games, ForumWarz is pretty neat and it's eating up chunks of my time that I could use doing something more productive. And NO I don't get paid for either of those links if you were wondering. It's just something that I've been doing lately, which has been occupying my mind instead of really doing work.
On the proofreading front, I've helped deathbyblue of F3 on a story he's been working on. Crudebuster released the second chapter of his story a while back, I found it good even if others haven't.
That's about it. Back to your regular scheduled non updating schedule.
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I suppose friend srb (everyone is my friend) I'll open this up by saying that you are a brilliant writer. And I'm not just blowing smoke up your ass either. I'm impressed with your writing skills, but have one small issue that keeps me from reading anything that you write for very long. I'm not saying that you don't keep me interested in your works, as I liked the Jamie and Phillip story very much. The one issue I have with your writing is this: 'Why do you write so much in one chapter?'
I've observed that most chapters you write total in at being 48 to 64 pages. That is unheard of in any book I've read outside of a reference book. That has always bugged me as you can easily convey a narrative in a few small pages I'm sure. There must be some reason you write that way and I would like to know it.
Hope this doesn't make me sound like an asshole, I just want to know why you write that way. I had to think for a second on if other stories I've read myself were that long, but none ever totaled over 14. I'm just saying that you could have either wrote just 12-14 pages and separated the other stuff into different chapters. Why must each individual chapter have that many pages? That'd turn me off if I found a book that was sixty seven pages for one chapter. That could easily be half the book. Unless your Stephen King, of course with his 1000+ page novels. Then I'm sure even he doesn't keep a chapter at that many pages.
But seriously, why so many pages? That's really the only thing that keeps me from reading more of your work. You write so well, but I cannot realize your potential because your narrative is so damned long! What could you need to say in a chapter that makes it need to be so many pages. I would think that would overwhelm the reader.
To end this, I mean not disrespect and am not trying to sound mean at all. I've just been wanting to know this for a very long time. By the way, I read your blog all the time and have learned many things from your Writer's Corner posts. Though I do not always agree with everything you say. Well, I'd very much like to hear from you on either the site (Futanari Palace) or if you're feeling up to it: an e-mail or comment on my LJ.
And I'll definitely try to comment on your blog and such in the future. You write interesting things and I'm always eager to hear from another writer.
SENSHI (Not so Anonymous)
wannabesamurai@lycos.com
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