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[C Dulaney]

Thanks Dylan.
I actually have a couple Darwin Award books... I'll have to crack those babies open 

[Clyde Wolfe]

Throw in a slinky and a pair of waxed lips while you're at it.

[C Dulaney]

Well now, that sounds more like a good time and less like a murder.

[C Dulaney]

42,000+ on RLT 3

This book is killing me. Slowly. And I think it's enjoying it. Should be at 60 by now.

I think, if this continues, I'll stop and re-read book 1, The Plan. Get to know the characters again.

I've learned a valuable lesson: never, ever, EVER let someone read your work before it's finished. What the hell was I thinking. Everything was going so well: had a clear vision of the story, tone was set, chaos and violence was ensuing... and then someone who shall remain nameless questions the characters, and WHAM!

What do you do when you're so excited to sit down and work at the end of the day (or beginning, or middle, whatever you prefer) you can barely stand it, and when you do, all that comes out is utter crap? Maybe not to anyone else, but crap to you.

Growing pains. Live and learn. Practice, practice, practice. Read more, write even more. Tear it apart and put it back together. Work everyday, even if you only produce one incoherent sentence.

Yes, that was me giving myself a pep talk. Well, the censored version anyway. I'm sure most of you have suffered from CRD (creeping rot disease) from time to time. Not you Zak: you're chronic and something altogether different. Don't know if this is my problem. Maybe I need to "sharpen the saw."

Perhaps I'm just being a brat and complaining senselessly to the computer screen. If this is the case, please for the love of God, someone smack me.   

Or I'll smack myself and save you the time. Either way, back to work I go. Hi-ho, hi-ho, and all that stuff.

[Victorya]

Letting people read your stuffs is a double edged sword, sometimes they're good and ask good questions, other times they ruin your love of everything you loved about your writing.

 

_{(so why did you do that to that character? Will people really buy it, I mean really, a woman character?)}

 

[Thom Brannan]

i hate having unfinished stuff for people to read. BLARG.

[C Dulaney]

Letting people read your stuffs is a double edged sword, sometimes they're good and ask good questions, other times they ruin your love of everything you loved about your writing.

 

_{(so why did you do that to that character? Will people really buy it, I mean really, a woman character?)}

 

Having a group of good beta- or first- readers is vital. Absolutely vital. Of that, I have no doubt. BUT, letting someone read a work in progress just because they asked nicely and said they "simply can't wait" for it to be finished? Big mistake. And I knew that. I knew it even as I said "sure why not!" I think a part of me was thinking, well this dude is one of my beta-readers, and I AM having trouble with this one thing, maybe a fresh set of eyes can help me figure this out....blah blah blah. No. Stupid. Shouldn't have done it.

It's the first draft. I haven't even went through and ripped it up yet. Fix what needs fixin', cut what needs cut. Of COURSE there are things that need tweaked, character-related or not. These aren't things that other people need to see. Blah, I could go on and on about it, but I won't. I've learned a lesson here, and I'm working on forgetting his "feedback." I'll do what I need to do, finish the story, revise and polish, until it suits ME. THEN, off to the readers.

Duh, CD. Duh. Don't fix somethin' that ain't broke.

i hate having unfinished stuff for people to read. BLARG.

I'll see your BLARG and raise you a GARGHFLFLF

[Clyde Wolfe]

Never let one person---ONE!---derail you.

Now if you send something out for ten people to review, and eight of them get back to you with the same issue, then you've got a problem on your hands.

Until then, to that one person 

[C Dulaney]

Clyde.... gimme the sword....

[Clyde Wolfe]

Anything you say.

Let me wipe my fingerprints off it first.

[C Dulaney]

 

[C Dulaney]

And in other news....

Been pretty busy as of late, what with vacations and short stories and all, so RLT 3 is only up to 50,000. But she's chuggin' along, no worries.

The cover for RLT 1 is practically finished. Only a couple things need to be tweaked. The book is in layout and I should be seeing a proof very soon. Let the countdown to release begin!

"Doodles" is set to appear in Zombie Zak's House of Pain later in the year (Library of Horror Press). So excited to see that baby I could squeak!

Got a series of shorts that will appear on Thom and Rob's site, Dark Tomorrow (which is awesome for those of you have yet to check it out). The first story, "Sail Away, Sweet Sister," will be posted there with the next update. So stay tuned in for that.

I'm on PP's wiki page: C. Dulaney. Check that out if you haven't already.

I think that's it for now, though I'm sure I'm forgetting something.


.....Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

[Victorya]

And in other news....

Been pretty busy as of late, what with vacations and short stories and all, so RLT 3 is only up to 50,000. But she's chuggin' along, no worries.

ONLY 50K?  That's my goal.  *sigh*

And congrats on all the busy-ness!

[C Dulaney]

Thank ya, thank ya very much   

[Michael S. Gardner]

Congrats on the ZZ acceptance. Just saw the TOC over at the forum. Nice lineup. Can't wait to check out RLT!