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bear by san

We'll make great pets--

In an enormous moment of auctorial vindictiveness, I have just given a head cold to a character who is stuck on a space station.

If I suffer, everybody suffers.

Cool things via google:

Carcharocles megalodon

Some shark.

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Scardown progress notes

New words: 2,015
Existing pages edited today: 60
Current MS Page: 114 of 445
Reason for stopping: Both quotas fulfilled.


I'm one of those rare, weird-ass writers who underwrites my drafts. Sometimes it seems like everybody else on earth has to cut 15% from the final draft.

I have to add it.

I think it's because I'm an almost completely intuitive thinker, and leaps of logic that seem obvious--inevitable--to me, seem freaky to most other people. So I always have to go back and establish the logic chain.

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H'mmmm. My theory has been that one can't get rid of a cold until it finds a new host. I wonder if it matters if the host is fictional?? I think this is a lovely coping mechanism, altho' I suspect your characters will not adore you for this (I can see them whining and complaining to the Muse: "C'mon, do we HAVE to be in HER story? She takes everything out on us, it's not fair!")
I'm one of those rare, weird-ass writers who underwrites my drafts. Sometimes it seems like everybody else on earth has to cut 15% from the final draft.

I have to add it.


I'm the same way, although for me, it's because I tend to focus on action and dialogue in my first drafts, and then I go back and add setting, emotion, and beats.
I always have to add stuff too, usually but not always to the end. I put it down to a tremendous fear of being obvious, but I also blame Shakespeare. I forget who said he had "huddled endings," but they are very infectious, anyway.

Pamela
"huddled endings"

I like that. It's perfect.
I always - for a small value of always - underwrite. But I hope to stop doing that. The rewrite has been too painful.
I have to both add and cut in revision, depending. It's a smoothing out process for me. While some bits are too sparse, I have a great tendency to over-explain in other parts. And then of course there are the bits that are just confused and need total re-writing...