BlogFlog

[nightangel486.livejournal.com]

Would anyone mind if I tried my hand at a blogflog for the latest entry?

http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2006/08/there-and-back-again.html



Hey, everybody. We're back from vacation. Usually, I let you guys know, and do some lead up blogs to a trip, but this time the trip kind of caught me unprepared. Usually, a book begins to take a back seat to my usual trip anxieties, but this time I worked right up to time to leave. The book is very hot right now, and I don't mean to imply anything about the scenes sex level,

That last sentence is so godawfully awkward I can't even put it into words. Instead I'll just laugh at the fact that LKH still thinks she writes good sex scenes.


no this is that boiling point where plot and character just cook.

I know I wouldn't mind putting a few (or all) of the characters into a pot of boiling water...

I actually worked on the plane going to our destination, and will be making those notes into computer fodder tomorrow.

"Fodder" is actually a pretty acurate term for your so-called "writing" there, Laurell.

I'll change a little bit but for the most part it's a complete chapter. This was a family vacation so I didn't work while we were gone. Oh, I made some notes, but as all of you with kids understand, the time gets very full and goes very fast.

I didn't know time could get "full", can it also get hot, tight and wet, like so many other things in your world do?

But the chapter I finished on the plane left me with some choices to make and if I hadn't had the cooling off period, I might have done the wrong thing for this book.

Please, please oh please say this means she decided AGAINST having Edward succumb to Anita's sex-fu



We'll see which way the choice goes for this scene tomorrow, I've narrowed it down to three choices. But the scene after this one isn't truly effected by which way we go, the scene just needs to fill the need, and then we can move on to a longer Edward scene. Yea!

Okay, first off..."effected"? "EFFECTED?!?!" Is that even a word? God, now the woman is making up her own verbs! Where will it end? And could the rest of the paragraph be any more vague? "the scene just needs to fill the need." Oh no...our worst nightmare has come true...Edward IS going to have a badly-written sex scene with Anita! Oh Lord, please, take me now so that I might be spared such a horrible tragedy...

Comments

[deadsong.livejournal.com]

"effected" is a word--such as "sweeping revolutions effected a change in social climate", though it's not used as often. The word that dumbass over there wants is "affected". The difference between affect/effect is one of those core nitpicky things that a published author really should know. Then again, I guess all she needs to write is Jon, a few dildos, and some blow-up dolls (male, of course, a female one would be a homosexual travesty) to fill in for the extras.

[deadsong.livejournal.com]

And...I'm guessing you need to close an HTML tag in your post. We've got italics bleeding down into the comments.

[pith]

Modly:

a) The link has to point to the direct blog entry, not the main blog site.

b) Please differentiate between your words and LKH's.


Thanks!

[mneiai.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty far away from being a grammar nazi (in fact, I often argue against a lot of nitpicky rules), but even I know the difference between "affect" and "effect." And I'm a Classics major, I don't even really have to know English at all for that ::shrug::

Link Fix

[naeko.livejournal.com]

The blog being flogged here can now be found at http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/index.php/site/there_and_back_again/

Sunday, August 06, 2006

There and back again
Hey, everybody. We're back from vacation. Usually, I let you guys know, and do some lead up blogs to a trip, but this time the trip kind of caught me unprepared. Usually, a book begins to take a back seat to my usual trip anxieties, but this time I worked right up to time to leave. The book is very hot right now, and I don't mean to imply anything about the scenes sex level, no this is that boiling point where plot and character just cook. I actually worked on the plane going to our destination, and will be making those notes into computer fodder tomorrow. I'll change a little bit but for the most part it's a complete chapter. This was a family vacation so I didn't work while we were gone. Oh, I made some notes, but as all of you with kids understand, the time gets very full and goes very fast. But the chapter I finished on the plane left me with some choices to make and if I hadn't had the cooling off period, I might have done the wrong thing for this book. We'll see which way the choice goes for this scene tomorrow, I've narrowed it down to three choices. But the scene after this one isn't truly effected by which way we go, the scene just needs to fill the need, and then we can move on to a longer Edward scene. Yea!
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Posted by LKH on 08/06 at 07:35 PM