"Only in your world would that be simple."

[ossiannic]

There's nothing quite like learning about a meeting you're supposed to attend by receiving an email of the minutes from said meeting. I would be more upset, but I have long been convinced that entire premise of this committee is idiotic and futile. I was drafted "volunteered under extreme duress" and no protests of how irrelevant the topic was to

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[magelette]

Those 'semi-voluntary' committees are always fun. Kind of like when Boss Man volunteers me to be a team leader on a stupid-ass RFP with a joint venture who are more like the four stooges... *sigh* I love my job, I love my job, I love my...

There's no 'right' way to write a novel, particularly a genre novel. Think of yourself as bucking the paradigm but creating a non-formulaic novel. *g* House doesn't have a lot of action. That's mostly a lot of talk and questioning. FiB isn't action-driven, it's character driven. You're fine. *g*

But I might just be saying that because I really want you to finish this so I can read it. *g*

[ossiannic]

A paradigm-bucking, non-formulaic, character-driven, fairy tale police procedural. *snerk* Okay, I can work with that. Last night I even managed to write two whole lines that I rather liked. *g*

[magelette]

Whoo! Progress is progress. :) Buck that paradigm, podmate!

I've decided that my writing, like my theory, is spectacularly mediocre, and my talent is to generate the optimum number of words in the least amount of time.

[ossiannic]

Heh. I have a talent for finding exactly the right word I mean after pondering it for about fifteen minutes, and then deleting the entire sentence half an hour later. *g* I'm trying to convince myself to stop that until we get to the editing stage, but I'm cringing at things like using the word "still" three times in the same paragraph. It's hard to move on. *g*