The (over-emphasized) Dangers of Mary Sue

In fandom, and increasingly out of it, a character too perfect to be believed, whom all the good guys love and all the bad guys fear, usually with a tragic past, is called a Mary [...]

Eyes Closed

Still typing with my eyes closed and slower than snot (sorry for the visual) so I thought I would just post a snip.  Or three.

Cut from Eve’s book after Eve and Ben rescue Hanna:

“You’re frightening her more, Captain. Let me—“

“No time to coddle her, Doc. Wouldn’t be a favor anyway. Look around.” She set the [...]

Counting the Little Things?

I cut 298 words from Eve today.  So we’re (all the way) down to 136,293.  Yay!

Or something.

Oh, and I got my Taro/Rafe head-shot to work on my NaNoWriMo profile.  *big grin*

Hey, it means a lot to me!

Wanna write, wanna write, wanna write…I’m SO tempted to cheat and start now.

What Can I Say?

Not much to show for my efforts today.  136,580 words, so Eve is down less than 200.

What can I say?  *grin*  My re-write rocks.

I’m just worried about when I get closer to the end.  I had the goal of finishing the re-write before Bly got here, and then things moved a little faster than [...]

Under 138,000!

Yeah, so it’s only a wee bit under.  It IS under.  I cut 300 words tonight.  I may have to ease up on the editing thing soon, though.  All work and no creating makes KD bite things.

I’ve heard that’s not very professional.