Writerly Ways

[cornerofmadness]

I have nothing much here this time. I haven't written a single original fiction word all week as I'm working frantically to finish girl saves boy (done) and ladyfest (getting there).

evil_little_dog was looking up the rules for origfic_bingo since it appealed to her as much as it did me and found out you can just post a synopsis and NOT the fic.

Soooo if any of you were interesting in trying a bingo card for your original fiction and were worried about the publication issue, that's a moot point. You're safe. ELD signed up. I signed up under this LJ for just plain gen (figuring I could use it for nano and beyond) and under Jana's to work on sexy scenes in the kink bingo.

I'm an excellent prompt writer. You give me a good prompt or theme and I can go. That's what usually gets me writing for circletpress and Dreamspinner, they have themed open calls. So this original fiction bingo should get me going. here's hoping since really 2010 has sucked for me. I'm still not at 50% of my projected goals which puts me WAY behind where I was last year. sigh.

anyhow hope to see a few of you at the bingo.

I'm going back to reading vampire manga (since I HAVE to get started on that paper) and I did print out the first three chapters of Machiavelli Moon. That's almost writing.

I guess I did accomplish something. It occured to me, I could rearrange things a little in chapter one to make a stronger hook rather than redo the WHOLE first 4 chapters.

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Safe. I like that.

*snicker*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

safe is good. I don't wanna do work I can't use but then again I want to write something original again...

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Right, right.

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

Wow. Redo the entire first four chapters just to fix the hook? That sounds pretty dire. I'm glad you didn't have to do that.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

well it would be to render a lot of it as a flash back in order to start with the murder which was suggested.

I'm not sure why American crime writers are now expected to start in media res with a major action scene

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

Because American crime readers get instantly bored with a book if it doesn't start in the middle of a murder. That's the (snarky) short answer.

I realized how spoiled audiences--for everything, not just books--have gotten when I watched the movie version of the uber-creepy _Suddenly, Last Summer_ on TCM last night. It started off by showing all the credits for the entire cast and crew, against the utterly static background of a brick wall. By three seconds in, I was squirming and asking, will this movie _ever_ start? This is what eliminating beginning credits entirely and starting with boffo action scenes has done to us as moviegoers. I'm old enough to remember when we took opening credits completely for granted, too, so I have no excuse for getting fidgety that quickly. ADD Nation, that's us.

If you want to write a _good_ crime novel that builds suspense and allows characters to develop, you'll just have to send your queries to British publishers. They're the only English-language market left that still allows crime novels to meander a bit (or a lot) before the murder takes place.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

the snarky answer is true

those credits? I fast forward right thru them and heaven help me if i'm in a theatre with no FF button.

I was thinking this watching the opening of Hawaii 5-0 going wow, this is actually TOO MUCH action

yeah I know you're right about that. Time to move to London