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Time for another "who's writing a book?" thread

I'll respond late next week, btw, to Froggy and the other one who is not named. I'm administering exams this week and then offline at a music festival all weekend, then it's half term (when my daughter's off, but I'm not). If you want to email revisions in the meantime, please do so.
 
Impressed with Froggies book. Don't want to give the story away but it's a subtly chilling political story...
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I found the initial prolouge to be particularly frightening, because of its plausability.

Must read more when these damned deadlines are out of the way
 
I'll send you - and dotcommie if you want it mate - the current "revision" of part 2 and there will prob be more as I go along ... i think when i sent it to dotcommie it was only 20 pages or something, its now 67.
 
frogwoman said:
I'll send you - and dotcommie if you want it mate - the current "revision" of part 2 and there will prob be more as I go along ... i think when i sent it to dotcommie it was only 20 pages or something, its now 67.
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revised is a mild way of putting a 47 page extension froggy:eek:

Yes please send on.
 
Got it. Am reading it, and enjoying it. I don't have Word right now, though, and don't know how to correct things as a proofreader would without Word. You know, where you can suggest paragraph breaks and so on (the kind of things we all miss).

BTW: Frogwoman: have you ever read Noughts and Crosses?
 
No i havent :) Is it good?

Sent you guys part 2 ... as i said in the email, thats a work in progress though ... and you might expect a few more ;)

xx
 
I enjoyed the part I read of what you've written, although in parts I do think you put some paragraphs in the wrong order. There's some with some real POW! to them, which would drag the reader in better if they were moved slightly.
 
My book comes out in November, being copy-edited at the moment. Slightly scary but satisfying.

It's weird when you finish. You expect bells and whistles and champagne. What you get is silence and then you have to go and pick your kid up from the childminders and listen to him whinge about how much he really, really wants to watch Thomas the Tank Engine.
 
LJo said:
It's weird when you finish. You expect bells and whistles and champagne. What you get is silence and then you have to go and pick your kid up from the childminders and listen to him whinge about how much he really, really wants to watch Thomas the Tank Engine.
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Well good luck with it.

I can imagine that. There's a piece of writing ending in a climax far brighter than the end of your day. Imagine if you read a book and the ending was;

"and then having picked up her child from the childminders, she listened to him whinge all the way home." :eek:
 
Roadkill said:
now, if I could only get the preface into a form I'm happy with, I could knock off work for today feeling pleased with myself. I've drafted, redrafted, tinkered and fucked about with it for weeks and I still can't get it quite right. :confused:
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Nope. Still not there yet. :confused: I don't like writing introductions and conclusions at the best of times, but this one's the most difficult I've done.

I have, however, had some favourable feedback on some chapters I sent to a colleague for her opinion. :cool: Now, all I need is a thumbs-up from my former PhD supervisor, who is also reading it, and I'll be happy. One week 'til deadline. :eek: :cool:
 
Bloody hell. I've now done around 120 pages of part 2. :rolleyes: This either makes me very impressive or very sad, dependin on your POV ...
 
Dhimmi said:
Well good luck with it.

I can imagine that. There's a piece of writing ending in a climax far brighter than the end of your day. Imagine if you read a book and the ending was;

"and then having picked up her child from the childminders, she listened to him whinge all the way home." :eek:
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Actually that might be a good final sentence for my final book (there are gonna be 3). It would at least be a happy ending - well, sort of! :D
 
Omg ... :(

I'm at the "beginning of the end" of my story...some pretty nasty stuff is happening all around ...
 
I've finished part 2 ... :D It's 140 pages so about the length I expected for it. Part 3 should be done by the end of the week :D
 
RenegadeDog said:
I'm going for an inconclusive ending to mine. Like at the end of 'Sideways'. I like endings like that, that leave you wondering what they did next.
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Yep I did this too ... sets it up for a sequel :cool:

I am looking forward to writing the endof the whole thing (ie book 3) where they hug each other and say "Yay we won!" :D
 
I've done all the research and interviews and thought all I needed to do was edit it down and I'd have a lovely book all done. That's how it went with the last one, but that was more of a straight bio thing than this. it's quickly apparent that it's a horrible great mess. And I'll need another six months to finish it. Still, that'll only make it a year late and it was me who imposed the deadline, it's not time-sensitive - except in the sense that I've long spent the advance, I've had to rent out my flat and doss with a relative and it's still 200,000 words of notes. of mess.

Dear my commissioning editor
Good things come to those who wait. How true that is. And while we are on the subject...


oh dear.
 
i heart procrastination

i should be doing research for my novel right now but i'm tired and my brain hurts so i'm arseing about on urban75 instead. and actually, it's less important that i do the research- it's set in 1994/5 circa cjb/ reclaim the streets stuff, so i essentially did my most important research in, um, 1994/5) than it is i actually try and write some believable male characters, which i'm really fucking struggling with. my main character might as well be in love with a CLOUD, he's so mimsy. all he's done so far is repeatedly kiss her on the cheek and smile comfortingly and buy her best friend a double tequila. he's a dullard. i hate him.
 
breasticles said:
i should be doing research for my novel right now but i'm tired and my brain hurts so i'm arseing about on urban75 instead. and actually, it's less important that i do the research- it's set in 1994/5 circa cjb/ reclaim the streets stuff, so i essentially did my most important research in, um, 1994/5) than it is i actually try and write some believable male characters, which i'm really fucking struggling with. my main character might as well be in love with a CLOUD, he's so mimsy. all he's done so far is repeatedly kiss her on the cheek and smile comfortingly and buy her best friend a double tequila. he's a dullard. i hate him.
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Ah that can be fun though. :cool: Sounds great :D you have a great name btw :D

Im thinking about whether to change the ending of mine. Hmm...I dont really want to though because I want to do a sequel and Im not sure how else it could end.

There are only a few changes to make with mine I think and then it will be ready to send to an agent to read. anyone know any decent ones?
 
I've read RD's book (well, until the end, anyway - i have about another twenty thousand words for him to send to me lol!!) It's really good :)
 
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