Something I noticed

[hils]

I've been capping Excalibur to make icons and I just noticed something which made me laugh



Look how blunt Excalibur is! There's no point at all at the end. You could barely use that sword for spreading butter. LOL!

Comments

[hils.livejournal.com]

Hee!! Well, I consider myself educated. Thank you :)

[lex-a-like.livejournal.com]

one thing I know is swords - I once spent £800 on lessons, many moons ago when I was a teenager and a lot fitter than now. Broadswords are my favourite, they take a remarkable amount of skill for what is affectively meant to be a fast moving, heavy slab of metal.

If I weren't in the middle of typing, I could probably explained what I meant better, just read it back, ah well... no one's purpose, and you get the idea.

[hils.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I got the gist of it :)

[lex-a-like.livejournal.com]

Pity the poor people who'll feel generous enough to read my novel - for 50,000 words they'll be trying to get the gist of it lol

[hils.livejournal.com]

Hehe! That's what editors are for

[lex-a-like.livejournal.com]

That's for people who get paid to write... if only

Besides, I'm not sure I could live with anyone else editing my work. They might cut pieces I love, and want left in. The only use I'd really have for editors is to catch all the SPG issues I miss.

[hils.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you need a beta rather than an editor

[lex-a-like.livejournal.com]

Probably, but I'm thinking seriously of when this is done, never allowing it to be read by anyone. It's kind of atrocious, when I read it back.

There's this little thing called reality - which is kind of missing

[hils.livejournal.com]

Take the advice of Stephen King. When you've finished put it away for six weeks. Don't think about it. Don't look it. Then, after six weeks, you can go back to it with fresh eyes and start editing. He does that with all his novels

[lex-a-like.livejournal.com]

Aye, that's how I do it, when I've actualyl finished a story before (excluding fic) - I have a little book or writing, and in it tehre are seven stages of editing, two of which are complete, or near complete re-writes of the novel. Takes about eight months from the completion of the novel writing stage, to the actually finish of the novel. Which seems ages, but in between there's room for other writing.

[hils.livejournal.com]

Exactly :)