Comments on: Imagine a Book

By: courtney

courtney — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:49:06 +0000

That offer sounds terrifyingly tempting!

By: sruble

sruble — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:47:10 +0000

I can send Sheila over to cheer you on if you want.

By: courtney

courtney — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:23:06 +0000

I’m glad you enjoyed it! I hope I can get back into this one too. :)

PS I wish my characters were of the brain-eating type! I need that kinda motivation!!!!

By: sruble

sruble — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:46:15 +0000

Thanks so much for sharing your outlining process Courtney! It’s interesting to see how other people work and sometimes their process might help your process, you know? I’m going to come back to this when/if I decide to get back to my tornado novel, or one of the other ones. Sheila is first, and she already has a process of sorts. (“Tell my story or I’ll eat your brains!” It’s a pretty good motivator.)

I really hope you can get back into this novel. Stories with that sense of feeling that sets time and place and atmosphere are really great to read.

By: courtney

courtney — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:43:37 +0000

Pseudosu: Hee!

Angela: Thank you!! & Those 11 pages are still there as they are part of the opening/key scene (as I knew vaguely what would happen in chapter 1, just not so much about the people it was happening too). They have been edited as I go along, but at this point–they are critical. I don’t know if that will ultimately change though. :) I’ll let you know when it’s done and edited!

Emilia: Heee! Even if they had lead to a flickr page, I have resized them so the text is all blurred. ;) And yay! I like being on the dark side! IT’S SO COOL OVER HERE.

By: Emilia J. P.

Emilia J. P. — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:22:27 +0000

So, this is me after seeing the first little screenshotty thing:
“OMG HAVE TO READ”
*CLICKCLICKCLICK*
“Whaaa..? nooooooo”
I am so incredibly naive. :) I resisted the temptation to click the second one (lie).
+ Outlining – welcome to the dark side!

By: angela

angela — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:28:27 +0000

This is really cool. It’s neat to see your process and for you to tell us what worked and what didn’t with all these books.

Question–when you say you wrote 11 pages of your novel, getting to know your character, will those pages actually stay part of the book (like the opening, a key scene, etc) or did you just the character them in a situation for giggles that would help you get to know them better by seeing how they reacted and to get a handle on their voice? Just curious as to whether your getting-to-know phase ends up in the book or not. :-)

By: pseudosu

pseudosu — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:12:30 +0000

You ARE a public service announcement bb.

By: courtney

courtney — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:45:30 +0000

Michael: That’s fantastic, though! I love the idea of organized chaos in the working space. :)

Nova: They would TOTALLY be friends! There is skinny dipping in this book three, which is uncanny. So they would definitely indulge in that. ANDDD SO MANY CONGRATS FOR FINISHING THE DREADED SYNOPSIS! That cannot be said enough. You are my hero. When I start refining mine I Will Look To You, grrrl.

By: nova

nova — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:50:16 +0000

“gasoline, baseball bat, blackflies, river, summer, night, sunset, car” !!!!???

I am thinking that my novel-in-progress and your novel-in-progress might be friends. They could sneak out in the middle of the night, go skinny-dipping, maybe get drunk and break a window or start a fire, stay out all night and wake up covered in bug bites on the hood of some guy’s car.

But, in all seriousness, your organization of this novel is so impressive! My novel is getting jealous.

About the synopsis: The fourth draft of mine is four-and-a-half pages. But it’s done at long last. p.s. You know this already, but: I HATE THEM TOO!

Have fun with GagaPants!