Friday Rants and Raves - Special Saturday Edition

[sarillia]

Hey all! I skipped another couple weeks and felt bad so here's a post to rant and rave about whatever's on your mind a day late. What's going well and what's driving you crazy?

For today's picture, I feel like showing some more Remedios Varo. It's called Encounter.





Note: I may not get to respond to some of you until tomorrow morning depending on when you reply. I'm spending today and tonight at my girlfriend's place and I never bring my laptop because I get to see her so rarely. But I always try to respond to everyone who replies to these posts so I don't want it to look like I'm ignoring anyone.

Comments

[ayumidah]

Finished a story that I had backburnered for at least a year last night. Now I have to proofread it and maybe pad it a little because it seems a little thin at 35K words...

Also my mother has claimed that the next time she sees I'm writing, she'll not disturb me unless it's an emergency, so we'll see how that goes. Haha.

[sarillia]

Congratulations! It's always great to finally finish something you've been thinking about for so long.

My first drafts are always shorter than the polished story should be. I sometimes race through scenes and then have to go back and add description so you can actually tell what's going on without having my notes in your head. One of the biggest things for me is long sections of dialogue getting telling bits of body language and tone added to them where I ignored those things before. I'm sure you can find some things that need to be built up more if you're not happy with it now. But if not, that's fine too. 35k is a respectable novella. Nothing wrong with that.

[ayumidah]

Thanks! Yeah, I hope to get it closer to 40K but it's not a terrible word count now.