Comments on: The Face in the Mirror Is Not Mine

By: Holly

Holly — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:20:44 +0000

To get it going again, ask one of your characters a difficult question. Something like, “What are you doing that you haven’t been telling me about?” “What are you hiding?” “I know you just did something you shouldn’t have done. What was it?”

Questions like those usually get me going again.

By: Holly

Holly — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:19:00 +0000

Welcome back! And good luck on Bet1.

By: Holly

Holly — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:17:22 +0000

And as I posted that, I remembered one where I did manage to get to sleep, only to see myself lying in bed and the ceiling above me start to bulge and pulse. Tiny hole opened, some white stuff started dripping out. Bulge got bigger, and suddenly the whole ceiling exploded down onto me, and zillions of enormous cockroach-like bugs poured out everywhere.

Woke me right on up, and I did not get back to sleep.

Maybe that’s why I’m not sleeping. When I do, I get crap like that.

So I guess the answer to your question was YES after all.

By: Holly

Holly — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:14:21 +0000

I have SERIOUS issues with mirrors. They keep coming back at me. They’ve had unnerving effects on my conscious and subconscious minds since I was a kid.

That said, I had to shift the mirror bit back one chapter to fit in the stuff that had to go there to set it up. So the current chapter is GHOST, and the next chapter will be THE FACE IN THE MIRROR IS NOT MINE.

By: Holly

Holly — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:11:58 +0000

Beautiful bit of worldbuilding. Even as you’re pulling out infodump stuff, make sure you leave that in. It matters.

By: Holly

Holly — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:10:34 +0000

Glad to help.

I’ve wrecked stories in just about every way possible at this point. I’m glad that particular one proved useful.

By: Holly

Holly — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:08:58 +0000

Not me, man. I’ve just started not being able to sleep. I’d swap that out for vivid dreams, or even nightmares, in a heartbeat.

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:34:15 +0000

Ugh, utter fail for the past week or so.

Complete loss of the urge to write. I’m doing a round-robin story kind of thing with a colleague of mine, and I recently updated that. However, on my own story, nothing. Bupkis. Big ole roadblock. Hence why I haven’t updated anything here in a while. I haven’t done anything. Hoping to alleviate it soon.

By: Wanders Nowhere

Wanders Nowhere — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:38:45 +0000

About 950 words on two short scenes to start Chapter 12 in a different way. The T. princess arrives in town and her intended assassins show up at around the same time. Then we cut to the MCs arriving at the castle, to show all the plot threads (finally) converging.

What happens from there may still be a pain, b/c I have a lot of information to convey…
…though in the script, there was No Exposition Whatsoever in this scene until the abrupt Meeting of the Shadowy Snakeman.
Hm.

We’ll see. The crazy stalker A. princess may still save my bacon.

By: Deb1789

Deb1789 — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:19:11 +0000

445 Words, after nothing all week.

I started reading. . .and couldn’t stop. And when I’m reading, I can’t write, I’m just too focused on the other story. . .
So. I feel like I wasted a Week, even though it was nice to fall into a world I wasn’t trying to build on the way down. . . .