*bounces deliriously*

[dwgm]

I FINISHED Harry & the Pirate IV!!!!!!!! 61,000 words, too, and 20K in the last two weeks.

*does back flips*

BBL -- I'm going swimming and reading!!!!

Oh, and tomorrow I'm going to the French Festival, with our school librarian. Wine and goat cheese and wine will be had.

Life is good.

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[trinityday.livejournal.com]

You know, the words "finished" and "Harry" are going together in a lot of my friends' entries today, but I don't think anyone else's finishes quite like yours.

Congratulations. I'm so envious of people who are able to write long, sustained stories/series.

[amy-leone.livejournal.com]

Branden and I are going, too! See you there ?

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Yeah! I would think so! Do you want a lift down there?

[amy-leone.livejournal.com]

Branden and I are leaving no later than nine. I don't know how late he means to stay, though, so I don't know if he'd want to carpool.

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, it doesn't start until 11, so maybe not, then. See you there!

Nothing to do with anything...

[trinityday.livejournal.com]

...but I like your icon.

Re: Nothing to do with anything...

[amy-leone.livejournal.com]

Mine? Thanks. My middle name is Leone, which is where the lion part comes in. And then the wings were just cool. :)

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! (I was just checking the flist, which I've not done much of these last two weeks.) I really had no idea I had it in me to write long chaptered stories when I started Harry. It just goes to show you, you just never know where life will take you.

I expect the net is quiet due to the new HP book. I need to read all those, one of these days. I liked the movies, of course, and have all the books sitting on my bookshelf (except this new one).

Hope all is well with you--and good luck with revising your stories, if you end up doing that. I did it with the first three H&tP stories, with the help of the ever-patient tessabeth, and it was a real project, but I was very, very glad I did it.

[trinityday.livejournal.com]

You think the net is quiet? I'm convinced the world is quiet today.

...or maybe it's just that so much of my world is intertwined with HP, combined with the fact that it's the first overcast day we've had in awhile that's deceiving me into thinking as much.

Revisions, well they scare me. I'm horrible at them and usually put it off so long that sometimes I even give up on the story even though it's more or less written. (Actually, in those cases I usually give up the story because I realize that I probably shouldn't have been writing it and no amounts of revisions will help it.)

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Re: Revisions - you know, I've been thinking it would be fun to go back and revise some short story and write it from some other character's POV. That way, it would be the same story, but totally fresh writing. Would be a good exercise, I think. Maybe something like that would work for you, kind of get you going with it, so to speak.

[honorat.livejournal.com]

Sometimes telling a story from the POV of another object rather than person in the story can create some fascinating results, too. The funniest and most full of pathos story of the Three Little Pigs I ever read was told from the point of view of a piece of straw! By the end of that story I had totally identified with that straw and was grieved at its tragic fate. Wierd!

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Now that sounds really amusing!

Point of view is an interesting thing. When I first started writing, I didn't pay much attention, but the more I wrote the more I'd tend to do a scene from only one character's POV. In a way, I think that makes it easier to become emotionally involved with the story. It's an interesting, and complex, subject.

[trinityday.livejournal.com]

That's something to consider, for sure...