Writerly Ways

[cornerofmadness]

In the midst of the lost story angst, and me accidentally reopening the door to my Buffy verse muse after nearly 12 years, I'm facing the release of my next novel, Blood Red Roulette!! We're one month from the day. Yikes

I am going to use a pro marketer this time and I need to come up with some blog posts. To that end, they suggested an interview with one of your characters. SOOOOO what would you ask an ancient Rome vampire now bumming around Las Vegas while trying to protect his new love interest from another vampire out to kill all his friends?

What would you ask the young displaced Cajun with a staunch Catholic upbringing struggling with his bisexuality and trying not to get killed by his homophobic father and brother?

I could use some help.

And now some links


All from Betty (because I haven't done in this in a couple weeks and I'm overflowing with links, too many for one post).

R.A. Salvatore and Patrick Rothfuss on What Does and Doesn’t Make Epic Fantasy Worlds Work

Turning Fury into Unicorns: How to Write Through Anger

Six Characters Siloed Into a Separate Story SIloed?!? Sidelined? Someone not know how siloes work?

Trying to Be a Good Writer is a Complete Waste of Time

How to Write Better Marketing Copy

3 Characteristics of “Extraordinary” Heroes, According to Donald Maass

editing advice

Overcoming Creativity Wounds

Story Structure Q&A: 6 Outstanding Questions About Structure

The Do’s and Don’ts of Storytelling According to Marvel

The Anatomy of a Book Cover: A Guide for Authors

10 Ridiculously Simple Steps for Writing a Book

WRITE A CAPTIVATING OPENING LINE

Lessons From the Fractured Plotting of The Collapsing Empire mythcreants being mean again.


Making Teleportation Work in Your Story

How Can I Ensure Reinvented Creatures Feel Different?

Comments

[rahirah]

Btw, here's some of the places I found old fic of yours while googling. None of it was the fic you were originally looking for, but just in case.

http://offline.buffy.de/outlink_en.php?module=/webserver/offline/www.shadows-and-dust.co.uk/title.htm

http://scribes.darkstarfic.com/fictionnz/onceuponamidnightdreary.htm

http://betterbuffyfics.fictionandart.com/archive/3/allaprima.html

http://members.adult-fanfiction.org/profile.php?no=62&view=story&zone=buffy

http://www.oocities.org/kittensinthedark/buffyrec.htm

http://www.trinitylast.com/thedge/Authors/Dana/

http://www.geocities.ws/romanticvampirelovers/fiction.html

And this might also be useful -- I also found just about the entire old geekgirlz-r.us website on the Wayback Machine. It takes some digging, because it looks like the URL was taken over by some kind of download site a few years ago, but go back far enough, and it looks like all your files are there:
https://web.archive.org/web/*/geekgirlz-r.us/*

The files you'd be interested in start on page 33 or so. A lot of them are graphics files or index files or whatever, but there's a ton of stories saved there -- yours, ELDs, and Chris Geary-Durrill's. Yours start around page 45ish.

[cornerofmadness]

Holy crap. I could kiss you. Also I'm apparently using the wayback machine wrong because I got jack using it. I owe you big. thank you.

[rahirah]

No problemo. I just figured out that the Wayback could do that myself. It's not the easiest site to use. :P

Just on a hunch, I tried the same trick on foreverfandom.net. And it worked. Unfortunately, because that site looks as if it was built on the eFiction platform, the files are impossible to identify at a glance, buuuut I clicked on a few files at random and out of sheer luck some were yours. If you go to https://web.archive.org/web/*/foreverfandom.net/* and go to the very last page (512) the files up at the top of the page with "viewstory" in the URL are some of your stories. Probably if you're willing to go through all five hundred pages of URLs, you could find more, but yeesh. (They'd all be files with "viewstory" in the URL; you could ignore everything else.) According to the author page versions I was able to dig up, you had about a hundred stories there at one point, but unfortunately, Young Lies was not one of them, at least, not at the points where the Wayback crawled your pages. :P

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks. I'm going to try this on a different computer. It seemed to work easier on the laptop than the desk top. god knows why. The browser is the same. I can't get it to do jack shit on this computer.

Thanks. And yeah I had a TON of stories and you know, younger me was a moron because looking back at my blog I had at least three posts about how unstable forever fandom was and yet NEVER removed my stories and put them on my blog. Of course in 2004/2005 I was just starting with LJ.

I appreciate the assist. I did ask MAKD if she had any (before I try that other site you mentioned) but sadly she no longer has any either.