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My racing frog still hasn't had his papers authorized. How can I develop an addiction to frog racing if they don't let little Ulysses run?
I chopped Violet down to 7300 (from 8k) words last night and sent it out. Since this story was originally 9k, that's not too shabby. It's still a little pudgy in the middle, but the penultimate scene no longer uses the word 'light' 25 times in several paragraphs. Fly, fatass, fly.
I'm working on my frog story now, which has no plot I can see besides Nyarlathotep chatting up girls in a swamp. And there's some business about a character not wanting to have little frog babies, but that smacks of arranged marriage angst, so I'm ignoring it.
After the expulsion of suck yesterday, I really wanted to read a bad book. Christopher Pike's The Cold One floated across my desk at work, so I snagged it. Yeah, that'll do the trick.*
Back to the suck mines...
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My other thought for a bad book was The DaVinci Code, but I decided I didn't need cheering up that badly. And while I already have some major sentence-level and stylistic issues with tCO by page 15, the set-up does not hinge on rank incompetence the way tDVC does. That's a big point in Pike's favor.
I chopped Violet down to 7300 (from 8k) words last night and sent it out. Since this story was originally 9k, that's not too shabby. It's still a little pudgy in the middle, but the penultimate scene no longer uses the word 'light' 25 times in several paragraphs. Fly, fatass, fly.
I'm working on my frog story now, which has no plot I can see besides Nyarlathotep chatting up girls in a swamp. And there's some business about a character not wanting to have little frog babies, but that smacks of arranged marriage angst, so I'm ignoring it.
After the expulsion of suck yesterday, I really wanted to read a bad book. Christopher Pike's The Cold One floated across my desk at work, so I snagged it. Yeah, that'll do the trick.*
Back to the suck mines...
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My other thought for a bad book was The DaVinci Code, but I decided I didn't need cheering up that badly. And while I already have some major sentence-level and stylistic issues with tCO by page 15, the set-up does not hinge on rank incompetence the way tDVC does. That's a big point in Pike's favor.
