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OH MY GOD THIS STORY WON'T BLOODY DIE

(How much won't it die? I wrote more than 4300 words on it today. Which were added to the rather sizeable amount I had already. And I am nowhere near done.)

(Novellas. Man. I am here to tell you, they suck.)

Date: 2011-02-17 12:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com
Lordy, my sympathies.

Date: 2011-02-17 12:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/
It wants to make you suffer. I suggest you take its toys away.

Date: 2011-02-17 01:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] artemisgrey.livejournal.com
I hear you! Love the icon though... almost worth the actual frustration behind it... almost... Can't imagine writing a novella... although I AM getting better at hitting projected word counts... and keeping under them... most of the time... on occasion...

Date: 2011-02-17 01:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misterseth.livejournal.com
Is that Fizzgig from The Dark Crystal?

Date: 2011-02-17 02:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] artemisgrey.livejournal.com
Yes! I have yet to figure out how to get something cool like that on my posts... so computer illiterate it isn't funny...

Date: 2011-02-17 02:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elizaeffect.livejournal.com
No way, novellas are awesome. As are novelettes. And I'm not just saying that because I can't seem to write anything shorter than 7500 words. (Okay, maybe I am.)

(This is my artistic frustration/celebration icon, to go with yours.)

Date: 2011-02-17 04:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jsbangs.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)
I'm with you! I love novellas. There's enough space to go with ideas too big for a short story, but they're still small enough to finish (reading) in a day.

Date: 2011-02-17 03:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alecaustin.livejournal.com
Ugh, sorry. My latest hit 8.5k last night, and it's not done yet either.

(I would really like to stop writing novellettes. Preferably by the expedient of discovering that my stories *don't need* to be novellettes, rather than just stopping halfway through.)

Date: 2011-02-17 04:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aulus-poliutos.livejournal.com
Heh, the planned novelette to connect books 1 and 2 in the Roman series totally went novel on me already in the planning stage, so the Roman series is now 4 books instead of 3.

Date: 2011-02-17 06:16 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] marycatelli
Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.

and then, to add insult to injury, they're hard to sell

Date: 2011-02-17 08:49 pm (UTC)

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