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[RokofAges75]

My Leighanne Story

All the boys are in the recoding studio laying down a track and in walks Brian

"Hey Brian! How's Leighanne?" Nick asks anxiously.

"Dead."

"Oh...huh...and a one and a two and a..."

LMFAO!!!  I love you, Mare.

[nicksgal]

LOL So true.  I was the same way; I averaged a "novel" a month.  Of course, my "novels" were all around twenty chapters of 200-600 words a piece LOL.  I've written short stories longer than some of my early "novels."

I'll have you know, I once wrote a 700 word chapter. If nothing else, young Dee had the gift of brevity.

That would be the perfect place for it! LOL

LOL, I have no idea.  I read other existing reviews on chapters I've read and reviewed, but I don't know if other people do that.

I don't need to give you ideas, I just need to make you think about your old ideas.

I like to know to what other people thought, so I do. But I doubt anyone else reading your stuff likes to add dumb jokes just to make you laugh.

[nicksgal]

Well duh! It’s my story so I had to end on a cliffhanger.

Yes, of course! But what will you do now that I've figured it out? You're ten chapters ahead of me, so you can't rewrite now!

[FrickingKaos]

Nick totallly killed her cause he wants Brian to himself.

[RokofAges75]

LMAO! But why did Nick ask so anxiously? Unless... he killed her?!? It's "How To Get Away With Murder" Backstreet style!

Fanfic Nick: It's easy because Mare wrote the story and doesn't write about wives. No one would suspect a thing...

LMAO I love this!

[RokofAges75]

Nick totallly killed her cause he wants Brian to himself.

Obviously.  Nick has never liked Leighanne because she stole Brian away from him.  That's motive.

[nicksgal]

Nick totallly killed her cause he wants Brian to himself.

Of course!

Obviously.  Nick has never liked Leighanne because she stole Brian away from him.  That's motive.

He has a motive, now we just need to find a weapon! And discreetly discard the evidence because Nick's too cute to go to jail.

[RokofAges75]

Poisoned pancakes?

[mare]

You’re all wrong!

Three words

Jewish space lasers

[nicksgal]

Poisoned pancakes?

Oh noes! Gluten substitute!

You’re all wrong!

Three words

Jewish space lasers

I'd like to clarify, are Jewish space lasers the weapon or the motive?

[nicksgal]

I have never had regular update days myself. I mean with this current story I usually update in the beginning of the week, but the way I write is on the fly so I just post whenever I finish writing a chapter. My readers don’t seem to care either way.

The only story that I’ve ever had somewhat of an outline was Finding Carter, where I knew how I wanted it to end before I got to that point.

If I Knew Then, I am following a timeline but I pretty much write on the fly. There was a lot of drafts I did when I was still in the developing stages of the story. There was a whole chapter I wrote where Brian was going to marry Leighanne, there was a different version of some scenes too. I don’t want to give a lot away. But it went through a lot of changes.

Did you feel like the multiple developing drafts were helpful in your planning process and do you find them preferable to an outline? Or do you consider the timeline to be your outline?

Did you have the Finding Carter outline from the beginning or just once you got to the point where you figured it out? I did that with PBox. The beginning I kind of meandered, but I had a very brief outline for every chapter from 31 on.

I know the jokes are great, but didn't want this to get lost!

[nicksgal]

My Leighanne Story

All the boys are in the recoding studio laying down a track and in walks Brian

"Hey Brian! How's Leighanne?" Nick asks anxiously.

"Dead."

"Oh...huh...and a one and a two and a..."

Also, we should all take a moment to celebrate that Mare wrote 34 words today. 

[RokofAges75]

You’re all wrong!

Three words

Jewish space lasers

Hahaha!!

Also, we should all take a moment to celebrate that Mare wrote 34 words today. 

LOL Yay Mare!

[nicksgal]

Here's some random writing questions for today:

Is it "Chapter One" or "Chapter 1"?

If you have more than one scene in a chapter, what kind of scene break do you use to split them up?

If you want to designate that something is a flashback or happened in the past, how do you designate it?

Bold, italics, or underlining?

[RokofAges75]

Is it "Chapter One" or "Chapter 1"?

Chapter 1.  As someone who has written stories with over 100 chapters, I don't wanna have to write out "Chapter One Hundred Seventy-Seven" in words LOL.


If you have more than one scene in a chapter, how do you split them up?

I use *** for scene breaks.  Or, as Text to Speech man would say, "Asterisk asterisk asterisk" LMAO.  Is that what you're asking?


If you want to designate that something is a flashback or happened in the past, how do you designate it?

I write ~*~*~*~*~*~fLAsHbAcK!1!~*~*~*~*~*~*~

LOL Actually, I just put it in italics.


Bold, italics, or underlining?

I use italics for words that are emphasized in dialogue, as well as inner thoughts and flashbacks or dream sequences.  I don't use bold much other than for chapter titles and when describing what signs say.  I don't really use underlining in fanfics.