Dreamwidth, writing

[pameladean]

I am not yet moving to Dreamwidth, and indeed resist the idea. However, given LJ's shenanigans, I have imported my journal and icons and in a meandering way am starting to put together a reading page. At the moment, if you are cross-posting from Dreamwidth, I can read your entries on LJ, and when I click over I'm told I am not allowed to have access to the post I've just read, I will subscribe to your journal and grant you access. I hope to manage in a more systematic way soon, but things are rather hectic just now. I've also tracked down a few of you who don't have the same username there as here.

I finished Chapter 15 of the new shrunken version of my book. Then I began hunting around in the previous version to figure out what to do with Chapter 16. I ended up synopsizing the remaining chapters of Volume 1 and noting the page numbers of passages I wanted to keep. There were not many, and they don't combine to make a coherent chapter, so I'm probably going to read through the beginning of Volume 2, synopsizing as I go, and see what I can put together. In other news of writing, I was bitten by a second short story. This is ridiculous. I don't work this way. I don't even like werewolves. This story has the same setting as the first, but it's not YA. The first one presented itself very irregularly, with a plot but no theme or voice; the second is all theme and voice and has no plot whatsoever. No, they are not combinable, and NO, they will NOT become a novel.

Pamela

Comments

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Has LJ done new shenanigans? Or is this just a cumulative thing?

[pameladean]

It's just cumulative. I always was a bit slow on the uptake. 8-) What really sparked my actions was ceasing to be amused that I could read stuff on LJ that I was forbidden to access on Dreamwidth, and getting annoyed that I couldn't comment, instead.

P.

Writers

[markiv1111.livejournal.com]

Interesting to note that over the last 20 years of my not being a writer, I find myself enthralled to read the stories that tale-tellers tale of how they choose to tell, and learn to tell, the tales that they tell that will someday wind up in books and magazines on the stands -- and to acknowledge that at this point in my life, I have no interest remaining in being a tale-teller myself. Every so often I get bitten by a stray sentence or a new character, but I manage to fight it down. Your "what to do with Chapter 16" paragraph strikes me as particularly cautionary; for all my respect for your work at its best, I don't remotely want to trade you places! Hang in there and keep on producing.

Nate

Re: Writers

[pameladean]

Thanks for the encouragement, Nate. I have always appreciated it from you.

Frankly, I could not have dreamed of doing this kind of radical alteration of a manuscript twenty years ago, maybe not even ten. It's not exactly fun, but it's engaging.

Maybe you're interested in writer's stories about writing because you have written, or maybe it's more like the attitude of a sports fan who doesn't play the game but is still interested.

P.

[beadslut.livejournal.com]

I don't even like werewolves.

Feel free to picture me convulsed with laughter, eyes streaming.

[pameladean]

Oh, you're a great help.

P.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

We have the same username over there, so Friend at will. I suppose we might do something with it at some point.

K.

[pameladean]

That's pretty much my attitude. If everybody goes over there, I don't want to have to scramble too much, but I don't really have plans.

P.

[noveldevice.livejournal.com]

Same username on Dreamwidth, but I really just use it to click through on people who have moved over there but mirror. I don't plan to actually move over.

[pameladean]

I don't want to move over, certainly.

P.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

short stories! Yay!

[17catherines.livejournal.com]

I'm already over there, and just waiting for a quiet weekend on which the internet actually works in which to figure out who is where and start trimming my reading lists accordingly. I think my flist has just about reached that critical mass point where the majority have migrated, but it's hard to tell...

I'm crossposting everything from Dreamwidth with the usual username. Look forward to seeing you there!

And also, hooray for bonus short stories!

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

Bitten by a werewolf story!

....all my friends are on LJ, but I find LJ's policies reprehensible and love DW as a small ethical company. sigh.

[finnyb.livejournal.com]

I am finny over there. Though I don't much use it. Just to click through to folks who mirror stuff on LJ, so's I can comment.

[pameladean]

That's all I use mine for right now too.

P.

[eposia.livejournal.com]

I am interested in checking out Dreamwidth, where is the best place for me to look for invites?

[pameladean]

I just sent you one.

P.

[comrade-cat.livejournal.com]

Yay, more future stuff to read! :D

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

Yesterday on the bus I saw someone earnestly reading a well-used copy of Tam Lin.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I'm not moving to Dreamwidth, exactly, either. I'm crossposting from DW to LJ, because many of my friends have said that if I'm not on LJ, they won't get around to reading me on DW, so that's fine. I don't really want to force LJ users to use DW if they don't feel like it. Also, I'm keeping comments enabled both places, because I'm fine with two threads; I know some people prefer it more consolidated.

So glad you're writing. I haven't seemed to be able to make myself write lately.

[pameladean]

Yes, I'm going to have to make the decision about where comments go if I ever do start cross-posting. I don't really want two threads, but it seems the best way overall.

You've had an awful lot on your plate lately. I often can't write when that's the case, unless I'm in just the right place for the writing to offer an escape. Those places are annoyingly rare. I don't know how your whole writing process works, though.

P.

[lcohen]

i am lcohen over there but so far i am not posting anything there or reading anything there, if i can read it on LJ--i do comment over there when people prefer it or insist on it.