Okay so back to this novel-I-wrote thing...
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@drwho It’s finished! I’ve just been sitting on it for a decade as I got more and more disillusioned with traditional publishing and now I’m thinking I might as well just self-publish.
@trixter Please publish it!
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@trixter Please publish it!
@drwho I’ve got one bit I do want to rewrite and I need to commission cover art (I have feelings about cover art) but I’m pretty much settled on it.
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Look, this isn’t monsterfucker romance, it’s adventure fantasy with a monsterfucker subplot
There are two important reasons why this is not a “romance” or “romantasy” novel and one of them is that the main plot isn’t about the romance, it’s about the main character rescuing her twink brother from his evil boyfriend, and the other is that everyone is absolutely miserable at the end.
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There are two important reasons why this is not a “romance” or “romantasy” novel and one of them is that the main plot isn’t about the romance, it’s about the main character rescuing her twink brother from his evil boyfriend, and the other is that everyone is absolutely miserable at the end.
Yes, it’s planned out as a trilogy. Does that mean that it takes until the end of the third book to get to the Happily Ever After? No, of course not, you absolute fool.
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Yes, it’s planned out as a trilogy. Does that mean that it takes until the end of the third book to get to the Happily Ever After? No, of course not, you absolute fool.
(The romance is just the raven-man psychopomp she tragically falls for on the way.)
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(The romance is just the raven-man psychopomp she tragically falls for on the way.)
Doing my best to fight the urge to just make a new playlist for this novel instead of working on it. That Transformers fic I was getting back into is currently all of 3 chapters and about 3 hours of playlist.
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Doing my best to fight the urge to just make a new playlist for this novel instead of working on it. That Transformers fic I was getting back into is currently all of 3 chapters and about 3 hours of playlist.
(The new playlist would be entirely Hozier.)
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(The new playlist would be entirely Hozier.)
(Actually it would just be this song, which came out over a decade after I started working on it, on repeat:)
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(Actually it would just be this song, which came out over a decade after I started working on it, on repeat:)
When I try editing or even rereading my own fiction writing, I run into a problem where I'm not so much reading the words as I am letting the words trigger the memory of the story as it existed in my head. Also because of this I tend to speed-read because I know what's going on, I know what happens, I'm just trying to savor the meaty bits, but that makes it very hard for me to tell if something is paced well or not.
I'm going to work on that as I go back over this novel one more time. I'm tempted to compile it into an epub or PDF to see if that helps, but if I don't at least let myself do line-edits I'll go mad.
Maybe sometime soon I'll toss the first chapter out here in case anybody wants to see what I'm on about.
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When I try editing or even rereading my own fiction writing, I run into a problem where I'm not so much reading the words as I am letting the words trigger the memory of the story as it existed in my head. Also because of this I tend to speed-read because I know what's going on, I know what happens, I'm just trying to savor the meaty bits, but that makes it very hard for me to tell if something is paced well or not.
I'm going to work on that as I go back over this novel one more time. I'm tempted to compile it into an epub or PDF to see if that helps, but if I don't at least let myself do line-edits I'll go mad.
Maybe sometime soon I'll toss the first chapter out here in case anybody wants to see what I'm on about.
@trixter I'd be so hyper critical and over analyze every word I wrote .. I'd get nowhere lol
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@trixter I'd be so hyper critical and over analyze every word I wrote .. I'd get nowhere lol
@dawgeth Part of why I had to step away for a while was because I ended up doing a lot of freelance editing work (mostly for a small gay romance publisher), so I got a bad case of Editor Brain.
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@dawgeth Part of why I had to step away for a while was because I ended up doing a lot of freelance editing work (mostly for a small gay romance publisher), so I got a bad case of Editor Brain.
@trixter Sounds like books my oldest daughter would enjoy lol
Gay romance with a stars hollow vibe? She devooouuuurs them.
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@trixter Sounds like books my oldest daughter would enjoy lol
Gay romance with a stars hollow vibe? She devooouuuurs them.
@dawgeth It was a fun gig!
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When I try editing or even rereading my own fiction writing, I run into a problem where I'm not so much reading the words as I am letting the words trigger the memory of the story as it existed in my head. Also because of this I tend to speed-read because I know what's going on, I know what happens, I'm just trying to savor the meaty bits, but that makes it very hard for me to tell if something is paced well or not.
I'm going to work on that as I go back over this novel one more time. I'm tempted to compile it into an epub or PDF to see if that helps, but if I don't at least let myself do line-edits I'll go mad.
Maybe sometime soon I'll toss the first chapter out here in case anybody wants to see what I'm on about.
@trixter someone said to change the font noticeably for your own re-read, plus the layout if you can ofc
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@trixter someone said to change the font noticeably for your own re-read, plus the layout if you can ofc
@mirabilos @trixter Also heard of people using text-to-speech as a way of proofreading. (I've yet to find a TTS voice I can tolerate…) -
@mirabilos @trixter Also heard of people using text-to-speech as a way of proofreading. (I've yet to find a TTS voice I can tolerate…)
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@mirabilos @lanodan Yeah, it's an interesting idea but my brain favors text strongly over speech, I watch TV with subtitles a lot.
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@trixter someone said to change the font noticeably for your own re-read, plus the layout if you can ofc
@mirabilos
My immediate thought is to go sans serif but I dunno if I can take dark fantasy seriously without a serif font.(See also that post I made yesterday about having strong opinions about random things.)
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When I try editing or even rereading my own fiction writing, I run into a problem where I'm not so much reading the words as I am letting the words trigger the memory of the story as it existed in my head. Also because of this I tend to speed-read because I know what's going on, I know what happens, I'm just trying to savor the meaty bits, but that makes it very hard for me to tell if something is paced well or not.
I'm going to work on that as I go back over this novel one more time. I'm tempted to compile it into an epub or PDF to see if that helps, but if I don't at least let myself do line-edits I'll go mad.
Maybe sometime soon I'll toss the first chapter out here in case anybody wants to see what I'm on about.
@trixter some possible editing tricks
-- read the scenes and chapters in random order
--use the computer to read it aloud
--some people swear by coloured text but I haven't tried that. -
@mirabilos
My immediate thought is to go sans serif but I dunno if I can take dark fantasy seriously without a serif font.(See also that post I made yesterday about having strong opinions about random things.)
@trixter @mirabilos
https://www.dafont.com/dark-elf.fontSerif'd and yet it'll change your reading speed. And you said dark fantasy, so it's calling out really.
