JoA: Adam & Adam/Joan stories

Digi-Dragon · 21 Aug 07 :: 07:11

Agh, that sucks. Good that you'll be in drive-thru awhile, though. >.> I, uh, tend to write long chapters.

It was fun talking to you too. I gotta sleep now too, actually- I need to start waking up early for *groans* school.

magicalturkey · 21 Aug 07 :: 08:12

Deb, I wrote more of the scene in Joan's old bedroom and sent it back to your work email.

TeeJay · 21 Aug 07 :: 14:28

There's nothing wrong with long chapters. Ours tend to get longer and longer as we keep writing. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

-TeeJay

TheCentralScrutinizer · 21 Aug 07 :: 16:34

Well, it IS a bit ridiculous when one single chapter turns out to be over 70 pages long, forcing us to have to then break the chapter into parts. But I ain't complaining. It's too much fun. The long, deep ones are my favorites.

Digi-Dragon · 21 Aug 07 :: 17:46

70 pages... Wow. I don't think I've gotten that high yet. I've written a 32-page chapter before, but that's about as high as they get. At first long chapters are intimidating, but once you really get into a story, then it's impossible to make you stop.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 21 Aug 07 :: 18:05

Impossible to stop is right. I don't care how long or short they are, as long as they're entertaining.

Digi-Dragon · 21 Aug 07 :: 18:44

Yeah, and if they're short I always find myself wanting more (unless the ending is satisfying).

magicalturkey · 21 Aug 07 :: 22:34

Ok so, my fanfic journal is offically off hiatus status, I just posted a new Adam/Carl story. I'm not exactly proud of it, but at least it's something... I can't believe I just said that.

I honestly don't have the same problem with stopping as you guys (obviously). I just get so far with an idea and then it's like "ok, that's a good ending" and the entire story is about half a page long. Not only did fanfiction rot my brain, so did drabble writting.

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TheCentralScrutinizer · 21 Aug 07 :: 22:37

But I love your dabbles! They're better than some entire books I've read.

I think we've found a nice partnership. You can add some of your dabbles to our our long, drawn out stuff and make them a million times better!

magicalturkey · 21 Aug 07 :: 22:38

Hah, I somehow doubt that.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 21 Aug 07 :: 23:58

I don't.

magicalturkey · 22 Aug 07 :: 00:16

Well, here's a quote from TJ from her review of my new story: "Laura, you gotta work on your endings and make them... you know... later." But here's the good part: 32 to 70 page stories/chapters are not something you need to worry about from me, I rarely manage to hit five. Some people can argue that that's a good part, in my mind it is.

I really couldn't blame drabbles (stories that are exactly 100 words, no more no less, for anyone who doesn't know), I've never been able to right long, drawn out chapters or stories (exept when I wrote a 48 chapter story with chapters averaging 10 pages each) ... I just end getting annoyed with it because I like just finishing it up to share it. It's just gotten worse in the last year or so, when I discovered the art of drabble.

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TheCentralScrutinizer · 22 Aug 07 :: 01:12

Everyone has their strengths. Yours is that you can tell a story in a page or less. Your stuff is so much fun to read, especially when you just need a quick fix of something to make your day.

magicalturkey · 22 Aug 07 :: 01:24

Everyone has their strengths. Yours is that you can tell a story in a page or less.

Oddly enough, I've heard that before I refuse to let it sink in. :embarrassed:

Digi-Dragon · 22 Aug 07 :: 01:38

I've been reading your drabbles since last night practically non-stop (not sure how many more I have to go...), and I love them. Some of them seem to end abruptly, but that's the thing about them- somehow, it just works. I know I could never write drabbles because I'm too drawn into long chapters. Being able to move someone with only a few hundred (or less than a hundred) words is truly amazing. A lot of your stories I've found myself in love with.

magicalturkey · 22 Aug 07 :: 02:54

Thanks.

This is seriously not me trying to be annoying or whatever, I'm just finicky about certain stuff... since I'm writing for mostly challenges with rules about the word count, I haven't written anything (that I know of, for JoA at least) that's under 100 words and if I do have something somewhere that's under 100 words I'm breaking a couple rules.

Digi-Dragon · 22 Aug 07 :: 03:04

=P Oh, that's fine. I was just being vague. I don't really look at the number of words for drabbles, and I didn't mean anything by the "less than a hundred" statement. Either way, you still are able to create very reasonable situations and entertaining stories with not very many words.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 22 Aug 07 :: 03:59

Laura, TeeJay loved your stuff in the EA scene too.

magicalturkey · 22 Aug 07 :: 04:02

Awesome!

Slightly off topic but not really because of the subject of the PM: Deb, can you check the email address you get PMs from here sent to? I sent you one because something's gonna drive me crazy...

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TheCentralScrutinizer · 22 Aug 07 :: 04:49

I replied a few minutes ago.

magicalturkey · 22 Aug 07 :: 05:50

I just posted a new Adam and Grace story. Deb, it's the one I told you about in the email.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 22 Aug 07 :: 05:55

Cool. I just sent you something about EA.

magicalturkey · 22 Aug 07 :: 05:56

Yeah, I got it. I'm gonna think about it tonight and sleep on it then see how it comes out in the morning.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 22 Aug 07 :: 06:00

Cool. Read your new one. Giggled all the way through it. TeeJay and Anne will too.

Typos, though...

He didn't. "How'd you do that?"
She shrugged. "It's a gift."
"And you couldn't have used you gift

Shouldn't it be he did.

And your gift.

Otherwise, perfection.

magicalturkey · 22 Aug 07 :: 06:02

Thanks. Yeah, I actually just re-read it and changed those right before I saw this

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