I know thats a bit of a long shot.
My story is based in my web comic universe and a number of my online buddies have been dropping not so subtle hints (ok, death threats) saying they want to read it. So I've caved and am posting it for 'friends only' on a live journal account. I figure their comments will help me wade through the rewriting and editing process in December so it's all good.
So far the feed back has been positive ,so that's a big incentive to keep writing it. Also i dare not stop writing now! Another reason to go for the green.
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Nov 8, 2009 - 01 43
nope..no one.
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Nov 8, 2009 - 01 44
I have a few friends who have read the series and have threatened me with sticks if I dont let them read this one.
So I will. But not until it is finished
----------Shut up and LOVE it!
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Nov 8, 2009 - 01 48
Danny and I have traded ours as per tradition, and I've posted a few extracts here and there.
----------Municipal Liaison for Australia and New Zealand :: Melbourne
Moderator for Games, Diversions, and Other Exciting Forms of Procrastination
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Nov 8, 2009 - 02 25
They have, as I have posted some of it on my livejournal. I will not post the link here for fear that the underaged, sensitive sort will click the link without reading the "contains somewhat explicit sex-scenes" and get all upset over their poor virgin eyes. Or something.
If you were desperately curious, my livejournal account is under exactly the same name as my screen-name here.
But I must say, having some of it posted is excellent motivation to keep writing, because people will badger you to get it finished, so they can see what happens.
----------I got nothing.
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Nov 8, 2009 - 03 03
Hubby wants to but he can't help making plot suggestions which I then find annoying, he's really very sweet.
----------Will prob let him as I have already identified my glaring plot flaws so it's ok if he points those out - I'll give him a list of acceptable criticisms lol :)
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Nov 8, 2009 - 03 34
I don't inflict my first drafts on anyone :P But when it's actually done, & edited several times over, I'll put it up as a web serial, publish it as an ebook and a paperback under my own imprint, and with all due sadness and elation call it done. Sometime around 2011 at this stage (and oh, how optimistic I'm being) ;)
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Nov 8, 2009 - 03 49
I post things friends-locked on LiveJournal. Started doing it because the friend who got me into NaNo did the same, so it was like a sharing/solidarity kind of thing, and I've done it every year since then.
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Nov 8, 2009 - 04 00
i have a bit on my blog
----------karmacrane.wordpress.com
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Nov 8, 2009 - 04 24
I currently have at least 4 people who want to read the finished product.
EDIT: Also, Enomis, based on what you wrote in the Excerpts thread, which I found to be really powerful, moving stuff, I'd quite like to read your memoir when you're done.
----------You could have said a word, but you turned away. Or do you always act in such a passive way?
2008 NaNo: 帰り道 // the returning road (Failed)
2009 NaNo: スパイス！ (Working Title)
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Nov 8, 2009 - 04 32
wow...thanks sm_kaze..that kind of blows my mind. How encouraging. :))
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Nov 8, 2009 - 04 45
My very reading orientated mother got a look when I finished the prologue...but instead of just reading it through and saying whether it sounded all right or not, we spent the next hour fixing grammar. Fun times.
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Nov 8, 2009 - 04 48
A few friends have read my old first drafts from 2007. I released the chapters with notes on a locked journal just like many others here have. This is a little concerning because I rewrote most of that stuff subsequently :P
Nobody's read the current version of what I'm writing. I don't have any plans for it, either. Yet. But Scarlett pointed me to the fmwriters guild, and I might just check it out...
Also, Simone, I second what smkaze said.
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Nov 8, 2009 - 16 01
Strops, thanks!! I can't begin to tell you how good that makes me feel. :-)
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Nov 8, 2009 - 17 51
I sent the first 10,000 words to my girlfriend who gave me some encouraging feedback. She's a lit major at uni and I'm a poor old History student who only writes essays on the Great Depression pretty much, so it was good to see something positive.
Also, I've been posting how many words I'm up to in my facebook status' and the guys at work say they check daily to see if I'm getting any closer or closer to quitting, so there's my encouragment to keep going.