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6 years ago
Yet probably being the key word here. Just got to Chapter 27 in Book 3, and it starts at page 581.
Book 2 was longer than Book 1, and Book 3 is turning out to be longer than 2. Has me a bit worried about 4...
I've stopped posting chapters both on here and DA sooner than intended due to lack of feedback. Since Shy Walking Shadows is in the editing process by another, I'm waiting on news from it then I'll be moving from there. Hope there isn't too much I have to change or remove for that matter. Although for the stuff that does get removed, depending on just what it is, can be put in like a deleted scenes type deal thingy. Or just later release un 'unedited' version, either way.
Anyway~
Messages exchanged with my editor has had me depressed lately so it feels like it's taking me longer to finish Book 3 then it should be. It being longer doesn't matter, as it's all playing out in my head how I want it, I have the layout already in place, it's just getting it typed out. So it's not even that the characters aren't talking to me anymore, it's just the drive of writing it all down.
Why depressed? Because of a couple of different factors really. One being they couldn't find the time to read my work, yet were posting socially about reading something else. - Ok, sure, can't get into what I wrote, that's fine.
Then there's the constant shifting use of programs 'to make it easier'. - Pretty sure if more time was spent on working on it instead of looking for other stuff, progress would be much further along then it is, but whatever.
Then the real kicker. Getting told they were skimming it when editing.
...what?
Yeah.
The way I wrote the books, you can't just skim them when editing and think to find the 'right' or 'correct' ways to put things, because some of it is meant to be written that way.
I was pretty livid, to say the least.
We got it cleared up this past weekend, so they're finally on the right track now. Did end up breaking down and downloading Grammarly though. Wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be, if you don't count its incessant telling me that my crap is not 'proper English'. Bitch, please.
I type how I speak. Just be glad I don't add in the stuttering or tripping over my words, not to mention my fail pronunciation at times, even over simple words because I'm talking with one side of my brain while the other side is somewhere else playing pattycake in the mud with some bridge trolls crotch goblins.
So yeah, that's my rant for the day, I think. Still working on Book 3, currently on pg. 586 so I'm still lagging behind. I'm 'thinking' there's only 5 or so chapters left, then it should be finished, as long as nothing pops out of my head and inserts itself into the story line...again.
Book 2 was longer than Book 1, and Book 3 is turning out to be longer than 2. Has me a bit worried about 4...
I've stopped posting chapters both on here and DA sooner than intended due to lack of feedback. Since Shy Walking Shadows is in the editing process by another, I'm waiting on news from it then I'll be moving from there. Hope there isn't too much I have to change or remove for that matter. Although for the stuff that does get removed, depending on just what it is, can be put in like a deleted scenes type deal thingy. Or just later release un 'unedited' version, either way.
Anyway~
Messages exchanged with my editor has had me depressed lately so it feels like it's taking me longer to finish Book 3 then it should be. It being longer doesn't matter, as it's all playing out in my head how I want it, I have the layout already in place, it's just getting it typed out. So it's not even that the characters aren't talking to me anymore, it's just the drive of writing it all down.
Why depressed? Because of a couple of different factors really. One being they couldn't find the time to read my work, yet were posting socially about reading something else. - Ok, sure, can't get into what I wrote, that's fine.
Then there's the constant shifting use of programs 'to make it easier'. - Pretty sure if more time was spent on working on it instead of looking for other stuff, progress would be much further along then it is, but whatever.
Then the real kicker. Getting told they were skimming it when editing.
...what?
Yeah.
The way I wrote the books, you can't just skim them when editing and think to find the 'right' or 'correct' ways to put things, because some of it is meant to be written that way.
I was pretty livid, to say the least.
We got it cleared up this past weekend, so they're finally on the right track now. Did end up breaking down and downloading Grammarly though. Wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be, if you don't count its incessant telling me that my crap is not 'proper English'. Bitch, please.
I type how I speak. Just be glad I don't add in the stuttering or tripping over my words, not to mention my fail pronunciation at times, even over simple words because I'm talking with one side of my brain while the other side is somewhere else playing pattycake in the mud with some bridge trolls crotch goblins.
So yeah, that's my rant for the day, I think. Still working on Book 3, currently on pg. 586 so I'm still lagging behind. I'm 'thinking' there's only 5 or so chapters left, then it should be finished, as long as nothing pops out of my head and inserts itself into the story line...again.
CA11IE
~ca11ie
You gotta write how you want. I had that problem for a while, trying to maintain "proper english" and yet it would sound like someone else wrote it... once i decided to write how i talk and would tell a story, things got easier. And more fun! :3
