“Why do people think writers are capable of anything except sitting in a room and writing, usually without benefit of being completely clothed or especially well-groomed?”
Poppy Z. Brite (Billy Martin)

author: Nicole J. LeBoeuf

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Fiddly Bits
Mon 2005-08-01 22:13:46 (in context)
  • 37,574 words (if poetry, lines) long
  • 59.00 hrs. revised

I just got done creating the Blog Creation/Edit page over at the new site. I hate making fill-in form entries. Next I'm going to have to do the login functions so I can put Edit buttons y'all can't see everywhere. I hate mucking about with login functions.

And today, the novel progressed by another 100 words of conversation between Todd and Amy meant to somehow eventually get them talking about Brian again, while neither of them actually wants to talk about him, and get them both down to the sundial so that Amy can see what Brian's been up to these days, while I have forgotten exactly what that walk looks like.

I hate this sort of fiddly stage direction nonsense!

Everyone talks about the middle book. The middle of the book--the Week Two Wall--that's where the plot's gotten started but run out of steam and the ending crisis is too far ahead to reasonably hope to reach. No one over talks about the middle chapter. The chapter's gotten started, the chapter end crisis is still ahead, and here we are in the middle, the characters twiddling their thumbs like I'm supposed to be a good servant and bring the rest of the plot to them.

I hate lazy characters!

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