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Grrl Power #965 - Tab AAAAAAA into Slot a
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No smash cut for Maxima. If for no other reason, they used up the most of the choker's charge while they were futzing with the enchantment. She'll have to wait a bit for it to recharged before she can take it out for a drive.
I do hope everyone gets what Sydney is putting out there. If not, I'm sure the first few comments will spell it out. If you're having trouble figuring it out, just keep in mind that Frix is two feet taller than Sydney, and saying that he is proportionally larger all over would... er, not do Frix justice.
Tamer: Enhancer 2 - Progress Update:
This might be a bad idea, but I thought I'd post my progress with the latest novel. I keep say it's getting close to being done, but I feel like I've been saying that for several months at least. The problem is, while I've been working on it fairly consistently, sometimes I'm only getting a few paragraphs done each evening once I get all the comic work out of the way. Actually, I think the thing that slows me down the most is re-reading chapters I've already finished, most of which have entertaining scenes in them. I get little minor edits done while I do that, but it's not conducive to rapid progress.
Unfortunately, the book is closing in on 170K words, and I feel like it's really back heavy. There's a lot going on in the final few chapters, to the point that I'm probably going to cut a character I really wanted. Maybe there will be a book three? There's enough set up in this book to justify it, certainly, but these are full length novels here, and since they're fanfic (I don't think that's the right term since I'm not using any of the original characters or locations, just the basic setup) I'm not charging for them. I'm writing them because it entertains me, but at some point, I should probably consider writing something original.
Anyway, the actual progress report: I (think) I'm a chapter and a half from finishing. Oh, and a sex scene I left with just a [sex scene here] notation because I wasn't in the mood to write it at the time. (I don't do any kind of outlines for the stuff I write, I just kind of write until it's where I want it.) Once I actually finish, I'll go and do a pacing and continuity pass. Basically, I want each scene to have the right weight.
It's a literary pet peeve of mine when an author reveals important information to the characters/reader and the characters have no reaction. I bought a 3 novels in one audiobook, and immediately in the first chapter, there's The Thing That Happens which motivates everything else in the story. A massive event that changes the whole world, so the characters have no reaction whatsoever and decide to go and feed the chickens. It wasn't like a dragon attacks, but the main characters realize they're not equipped to fight it so they run away, it was like, the characters are walking down a road, and the next sentence is; "After the dragon attacked and the 5 nations' armies gathered to battle it, taking a dozen hours and thousands of men to bring it down, the characters decided to set up camp for the night." And then you re-read the sentence three times because you're sure you didn't read it right, and then finally realize that the author doesn't want to be telling the story he seems to be telling. Or he's like, "yeah, yeah, that's just stuff that happened. I want to write about how the main character organized the rocks in the fire ring."
Basically I got about 17 minutes into a 27 hour audiobook and quit right then and there. What if the fun of writing anything if the characters don't react to it? I guess authors like that are... anti-Spielbergs?
Anyway, once I've finished that pass, I'll put a call out for some proofers. Please, when I do, keep in mind that the book will be released for free a few weeks after that, and I really do need people who are willing to go through 170,000 words to tell me how many times I transposed "an" with "and."
Comments
David Sandelin
I would assume Frix would know the answer, and this was a nicely phrased reminder from Dabbler that Sydney ought to talk with him anyways.
Eric Loken
While Frix may be familiar with the need for the potion, that didn't really answer Sydney's question of who needs to drink it.
Tim
I am not surprised in the least, and yet I still have questions. X3
Jerard
Oh, I started off thinking you were going a different way with that.
Lia
I did the conversion and I have to say that Sydney would have to be at least three times her current size to accommodate that thing. Also - I know this is all a joke and everything, but relationships have ended bitterly and sadly over size differences - both ways.
Curtis
I wasn't going to zoom in on this b/c I got the drive of Syndey's slide show but I'm SO glad I did for the text on that last slide :-P
Donald Randolph
So, Syndey and Frix previous encounters were just up to 3rd base?
Andrew Foss
11foot8 reference: I see, you too, are a man of culture
Anton Schleef
I'm more surprised that there are authors who can manage to follow an outline for what they write. I've tried doing some writing myself, had a very rough outline for where it was going, and I've had to revise everything past the beginning of that outline a half dozen times, and I'm not even through the very, very, very broad scope of what that outline was covering yet, nor have I 'finalized' as much as a half dozen segments of the story yet (by 'finalized' I mean it is ready for publishing and won't need more than minor edits, if it even needs that much), and it was only meant to have ten segments (and the outline I do have doesn't even go that far). I find it perfectly acceptable that you just kinda write and let it go where it goes. Such stories tend to be far more organic in nature, and with some editing to make sure everything transitions smoothly also tend to have a much better flow to them since nothing was forced to happen. I can say that from the example you gave I MIGHT give that audio book a full hour to convince me it's worth finishing, mostly because of the cumulative length of it, but if the author kept pulling stunts like that (without the benefit of a SSSS.GRIDMAN type explanation) I would probably also label it a bad buy and drop it without finishing it (which is extremely rare for me, out of the couple hundred or so audio books I've listened to it's only happened three times).
Andrew
Can’t help but hope that they both end up drinking it, and Frix shrinks but Syd doubles in size and they’ve got the opposite problem. Syd probably wouldn’t mind being tall for a while though!
Doug Northcote
Looking forward to reading your Tamer 2 book. Thought you did a bang up good job on the first one and was quite a fun and pretty fast paced read as well.
Darastrix Sthyr
If it's not, I will be VERY disappointed! And confused, because honestly it would be such a wasted opportunity!
Kevin Wright
Given that the subtitle says the potion is colloquially known as the "half-breeder", I'd say it was a, um, size reduction.
Seth Ruskin
A person not used to being deemed attractive/wanted and/or not used to being in such situations can take a while to become comfortable discussing sex and being sexual. Some require a long time, especially if there's self-esteem or body image issues. It's not that unrealistic.
Seth Ruskin
Or Sydney never broached the topic in her awkward embarrassment. Which is why Dabbler pointed out that Frix IS familiar with the potion.
Jerard
This is funny and cute but it actually makes Frix look like stupid or like a dick. He would look stupid for not planning ahead for a problem that, as Dabbler says, he is necessarily familiar with especially since he is very well acquainted with Sydney's size, all over. It seems to me that he can't be that stupid since he is a spacefaring wolf engineer and I believe his high intelligence has been discussed in the comic. So he is a dick because he apparently figures it is the woman's responsibility even though he has no reason to believe that Sydney has any knowledge of such a potion.
Torin
So, a teaser for the next month's incentive?
Les Bonser
I follow this comic only for Sydney. But I can't decide if her continued naiveté/embarrassment about sex is still cute, or just getting annoying.
Stephen Gilberg
I'm a proofreader. I'd give it a shot.
Critical Hit
So the question is, how does the potion effect things? Change relative size, increase elasticity, heal during the act? A variety of options as to what it actually does.
GMScooter
"The Half-Breeder" LOL Almost fell outta my chair!
Jabber
...sooo, Frix's red rocket is more like a Falcon Heavy?
Justaguy
The guy who took over after Jordans death did a decent job wrapping it up in 3 books.
Seth Ruskin
I've been waiting for this issue to come up. I knew it was going to happen. Low hanging fruit, as it were... I'll see myself out.
furry
About Jordan, yeah i agree, he had an annoying habit of keeping introducing more and more characters, instead of actually follow the was gallery of people he had already introduced. I never did read the last books. I loved it for a long time when i was young, but it simply dragged on and on and kept introducing people and yet more strangeness without anything really being resolved much. (ok a big simplification, but you get the drift even if it was not completely accurate)
Magraal
170k words is about a 450 page book which may be a lot for people who don't read fantasy novels but well.... for people who DO read fantasy novels, that's actually a bit below average. Most of the Wheel of Time series border on 1000 pages each, for instance, though Robert Jordan was known for maybe writing a little bit *too much*
Peter H
170K words, who are you? Drew Hayes?
Damaged
Woo! 11'8"! Now 11'8+8", though still cutting the tops off trucks.
William O'Driscoll
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