Facebook flog - Mar 19 2013

[blogfloggery.livejournal.com]

Link: Mar 19 2013, 4:20
Disclaimer: This blog entry is verbatim, as originally posted on LKH's Facebook. Copyright belongs to Ma Petite Enterprises.

Copyedits for Affliction have begun in earnest. They're due back March 22, which is this Friday. *Ah!* This is a chance not only for grammar & spelling, but also to change a new character's name if they had a placeholder name until I could think of a better one. Our wonderful continuity editor, Missy, who has only come on board since Kiss the Dead will help me make sure people don't keep growing & shrinking a few inches from book to book, and eye color. *rolls eyes* Why do I keep chaning some character's eye color? Also time line issues. *sigh*

Comments

[libwitch.livejournal.com]

I dunno. I would think by now either she or a copy editor or one of her much-beleaguered assistants would have drawn up at least spreadsheet that gives basic character attributes: height, weight, hair color, eye color, sexuality (beyond: F8&CS everything), personality quirks.

I mean, for gods sake, hire a passing gamer. They will do it for you! They might even use D&D character sheets to get started!

Normally, an author of a well established series keeps track of all this stuff because they have their own notes. But we all know that LKH is apparently too awesome writes too organically. Ah its hard to keep notes when you just make it up as you go along.

..all that aside, aren't her characters living beings to her, like family? Maybe thats the problem. here. I wonder if she forgets what her daughter looks like too?

[wanderingworlds.livejournal.com]

I would just like you to know how hard I started giggling. Because I thoroughly enjoy making character sheets, and have friends who fill out their D&D sheets like whoa (and it was probably my favorite part when I wasn't getting to play and help story-build).

LKH probably even has friends. Maybe that long-haired guy who inspired the Flirt Scene with the poor waiter.

[telaryn.livejournal.com]

He actually has a real job.

[wanderingworlds.livejournal.com]

You mean his real job isn't to make his Super Hot Girlfriend That We Should All Be Jealous Of a little uncomfortable by victimizing poor unsuspecting waiters who find him attractive? Well, damn. Who'd have thought?

I like how LKH even portrays her friends as two-dimensional, flat, and possibly morally corrupt. Just like her characters!

But that's cool that he has a real job.