About and Feedback

I'm not really sure if this will be a one off post, the beginning of a complete story of a kind of 'snippets' version of Agueda's past using her diary. I guess I'll just see.

Whatever form this eventually takes, feedback would be helpful. Unless it's positive. Constructive criticism is much better. So lots of criticism please!

Oh! And also some help setting up properly. I need to make a place for people to leave criticism and have a seperate place for my 'storyline' or whatever it will be. Kinda like Snoggy has for his St Croix lot.

Help?

Agueda! Agueda! Taryn! Molvidr School! We demand lots of the intrepid propheteer!

Ok, so I probably won't be back on here again until my exams are Finnished.

And since that happens the day before I go to America... I'll be posting here in 5 weeks time.

Hopefully, I'll have written lots whilst in the US of A.

Caio bambinos!

WAAH!

*sobs*

Well... have fun! And do write lots! And hopefully come back still able to spell 'vigour' and 'honour'... *g*

Not that there will be much of either of those qualities in the holiday... *g*

I'll send you and Slen a posty, Mutt!

Ok... confession time.

I didn't really get an awful lot written in America. So far I think I have the first extract and that took me the plane trip and first few days. After that I was kind of busy visiting ice cream factories.. No! I mean, uh my dog ate aromatherapy pills and so I had to take him to the vet but there was this huge herd of cows in the road so I took a short cut through a field and by the time I came out the other side I'd gotten so caught up in plants that people thought I was a 4th of July Parade and started cheering and then the farmer came out and said Give me one good reason why I shouldn't call the cops... and he'd asked me sooo nicely...

0.o *giggles* *falls over*

I've been umaaing to those seeds. No change yet!

Keep me posted on their progress!

Expect first extract soon. Overall story is firmly planted in my head but writing it is turning out to be difficult.

But you can't leave us there! *wails*

I'm liking it so far. The train is cute. Wanna hear more though!

You may be able to tell that I detest long descriptions. I've realised on re-reading it that all the writing is very much action/dialogue-orientated.

Same thing happens when I read. I often skim read description paragraphs and concentrate on the dialogue.

I must confess I tend to do the same. Though I try not to.

Long descriptions do not make a good story.

Not sure if ranting does, either. *Glares at a literary someone.*

Dialogue is really good for implying stuff, anyway.

Hmmmm.. well, if you like this just wait til you meet Taryn!!!

I'm liking Lox. *eg* This is kewl stuff!

*enjoys*

*Stares.*

This is the funniest thing I've read all week.

Yiffing the--!!

Nurse is hilarious. Best thing I've read all week.

I've just realised... this will end up being very long.

Grrrrrr...

Hmmmm... this isn't going as well as I'd hoped. Not at all. I'm considering scrapping the whole lot. Advice?

Awww.

What's giving you trouble, in particular?

I'm just struck by how crap my writing is. And it doesn't help that I threw Lox in there then forgot something quite important about him. Gah! Luckily he was killed off in Full Moon (Or was he?)

Hmmmm... I can slog away at it for a while I guess. Try and hash something decent out of it.

Never worry about your writing quality. That's practice, plain and simple. You're finding your authorial 'voice', which is more important, 'cause that's harder to fake.

If there's one scene that's giving you trouble, gloss over it. Seriously. Summarise it as briefly as possible and move on to the next part you can see. When you've got the following bits straight in your mind, chances are you'll have more of an idea how to get there - or you may even find that the intermediate part wasn't essential for telling the story anyway.

And I make howlers with my characters all the time. Giving someone a tail whose skeletal structure forbids a tail (squeak!), calling someone "he" when it wasn't a he, all that good stuff.

Oy! No you don't!

Never. Ever give in to that doubt. Like mutt said: if stuff makes you unhappy, go back to where it still made you happy. This is one of the reasons I always gave up on early stuff, but when I learned to gloss stuff over - and not just once! -, it became fun again.

(And one thing I've realised lately... have fun with your sense of humour, not anyone else's. *eg* You don't need to have someone else's sense of humour to make people laugh.)

Speaking of intermediate parts unessential to the story, I've got editing to do.

By all means keep on with it! I'm quite enjoying it. Fixing all the stuff that doesn't quite sit right is what the "rewrite" phase is for. First get it all down, then go back and make it a masterpiece.

You're doing fine - keep it up!

Please don't stop writing. You have a great rough draft so far, but if you left yourself get caught up editing it before you get to the ending, you'll never stop fiddling with it. Happens to me all the damn time -- my pieces tend to either get posted up as without so much as a spellcheck or they flounder until I get can't stand to look at them because there's always something that needs fixing.

I know where I'm going with this in a fair amount of detail. I'm just not sure how I'm going to make it all work or happen...

But I'll try my damndest.

Stay away if you don't like mush. I feels all luvved up and womantic! *flutters eyelashes*

ATTENTION ALL SQUIRRELS: This is an official prod for feedback.