A writing post, I guess!
May. 18th, 2005 09:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiper+0: First things first: y'all say hi to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eklisiewicz, who has given me help on the earliest chapters of the third draft of Faerie Blood!
+1: The editing is going very well, as I have been yammering about under my Writing filter. Suffice to say, outside the filter, that I'm steadily winnowing through the emailed comments I have received and am on track to start printing before Saturday. Still need to get envelopes or a box, though. I went to Office Depot on my way home last night and found it unhelpful; the guy there was perfectly amiable, except he kept trying to steer me towards coming back to their store to mail the manuscript, at which point they'd let me have a box for free. Which wasn't really what I wanted to know, as I wanted to just buy something, pack it myself, and take it to the post office. I'll probably have to try the U Bookstore after all.writersweekend, you did I believe mention something about using Tyvek envelopes? I found those being sold at Office Depot but was uncertain what size would be appropriate for a 410-or-so-page manuscript.
+2: Also, for giggles and grins, I observed that several of the paperbacks I have read lately average 35 lines per page and about 12 words a line. Doing the math on 98,145 words, I get roughly 234 pages. This tells me that by most terms these days, Faerie Blood is still rather short. However,spazzkat has remarked that there's nothing wrong with a quick read--and the sequel can be longer. Which, in fact, it will be. ;)
Tuesday miles: 2.75
Miles out of Hobbiton: 113.41
Miles to Rivendell: 344.59
eklisiewicz, who has given me help on the earliest chapters of the third draft of Faerie Blood!+1: The editing is going very well, as I have been yammering about under my Writing filter. Suffice to say, outside the filter, that I'm steadily winnowing through the emailed comments I have received and am on track to start printing before Saturday. Still need to get envelopes or a box, though. I went to Office Depot on my way home last night and found it unhelpful; the guy there was perfectly amiable, except he kept trying to steer me towards coming back to their store to mail the manuscript, at which point they'd let me have a box for free. Which wasn't really what I wanted to know, as I wanted to just buy something, pack it myself, and take it to the post office. I'll probably have to try the U Bookstore after all.
writersweekend, you did I believe mention something about using Tyvek envelopes? I found those being sold at Office Depot but was uncertain what size would be appropriate for a 410-or-so-page manuscript.+2: Also, for giggles and grins, I observed that several of the paperbacks I have read lately average 35 lines per page and about 12 words a line. Doing the math on 98,145 words, I get roughly 234 pages. This tells me that by most terms these days, Faerie Blood is still rather short. However,
spazzkat has remarked that there's nothing wrong with a quick read--and the sequel can be longer. Which, in fact, it will be. ;)Tuesday miles: 2.75
Miles out of Hobbiton: 113.41
Miles to Rivendell: 344.59