Comments | ry_sabir: *Waves* I'm alive!

ry_sabir

Waves I'm alive!

Sep 27, 2016 00:33

Whew, it's been quite some time since I've posted here. Between getting back from Ireland, the Jewel Riders Archive celebrating its one-year anniversary, trying to keep up a somewhat-steady word count with the new novel, and trying to go through my collection and debox stuff and move DVDs into a trunk that holds 1000 in sleeves, I have literally ( Read more... )

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strongheartmaid September 27 2016, 11:46:17 UTC

oooh, I do like that original fic you wrote :D

ry_sabir September 27 2016, 16:48:17 UTC

Well thank you kindly. :)

Anything that worked well or didn't work at all for you?

strongheartmaid September 27 2016, 18:25:20 UTC

Hmm.. nothing that I could see that took me out of the story

(Although, did get a good chuckle at Aedan's name. "Born of fire". I may steal that [with your blessing] for when I get back to my Drac crossover, need a good name for Aaron, bar the obvious for the past life setting)

ry_sabir September 27 2016, 19:03:14 UTC

Use away at your pleasure, haha

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crystalheart September 27 2016, 19:13:40 UTC

Ireland, oh I'm jealous. I just did my DNA testing and it turns out I'm part Irish. I had no idea!

What's this about a new novel? How goes the progress?

I have to think on what I'm wanting to say about your short fic. It's good and the end really pulled me in but there's something off about the start that I can't quite place. Let me see if I can come up with words for why.

ry_sabir September 27 2016, 22:02:42 UTC

Very cool! I want to do that DNA testing sometime soon as well!

Haha, by "new" I mean the one that I've been working on for the last several months (and had its genesis in several of my NaNoWriMo flash fictions last November). It's a gay-flavored space opera set within the bounds of our solar system, but still full of feuding politics and the like. Perhaps I'll post some of what I have done so far here if anyone wants to read it.

Looking forward to hearing the why!

crystalheart September 28 2016, 01:52:26 UTC

You know we want to see it!!!

ry_sabir September 28 2016, 14:53:52 UTC

Haha, okay, I'll try to put something together. I'm only about 10k words in right now, so it's far from being finished.

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lovelykitta September 29 2016, 17:55:49 UTC

Ry! It's great to have you back!

As for the fic, it's good but....kinda lacking? I don't know how else to describe it but some more detail would have been nice. We know a decent basis for Aedan but almost nothing about Cormac except a few facts and we have few character description details to go with, especially for Aedan. Plus the fight scene with the barbarians felt lacking as well. Maybe an extra detail sentence or two?

ry_sabir September 29 2016, 23:06:40 UTC

Hey hey! :) Thanks for the feedback!

I felt very constrained by the word count target for the anthology, which was less than 2500 words. 2500 words seemed hardly enough to do anything with one main character, let alone get into anything about Cormac.

But now that it got rejected anyway...I'm free to throw in some more haha. XD

lovelykitta September 30 2016, 03:16:34 UTC

Welcome!

Ugh, word restrictions can really suck. But hey, once you really get in the swing of them, you can get to the point rather elegantly. Maybe you just need time and practice?

Wooooo! Add those extra details!