Kaymyth

An awesome takeover that will fill the thread with fun! How could anyone object? Someone turn on the bubble machine! *dives into a pile of brightly colored plastic balls*

We had a foundation company come out and look at the old house today. Handed 'em a copy of the engineer's report and said, "How much to do all this?" Their bid came back $5k less than we were expecting! Seriously, we were gonna do the 3 bids thing, but we know this company is really reputable and reliable, and that's a big chunk of money less than the engineer told us to expect.

Knowing us? "Striking" would just involve us dancing around gleefully declaring how awesome we are, and then turning the thread into a ball pit.

I think between the three of us we've got a good shot right now.

That I do not know. There are limits to my little mental Encyclopedia of Weird Trivia.

It really depends on the metal involved, I think. Every one is different. Lead, for example, is one of the most well-known toxic metals. You can handle it safely, but you don't want to eat it. If you get shot with it, it's usually OK to leave the bullet in. But if it's too close to a joint, then you run the same risk of lead poisoning that you would from ingesting it. Mercury, on the other hand, you don't even want to touch. Just no. It's a lovely, silvery, liquid pile of nope.

And Adonalsium was a Time Lord artifact.

Well, I think that was in reference to the fact that he inadvertently got Wax's undivided attention. Steris most definitely comes from a family with Allomantic heritage.

So far, voting seems skewed in preference of serializing. Also, the number of non-beta people who are interested is plural. *squee* I didn't even think about this being an option. Huh. I might have to tag on a downloadable link when it's all up in case people want to save a copy of it.

I like to color code them. Plot-important scenes on one color, character-building scenes on another, connecting scenes on a third and/or fourth. I put in a general rule when doing the second draft of Swift as Steel that if there were too many non-plot colored scenes in a row, something needed to be condensed or cut.

Also, sticky notes are your friends. Very handy for popping scene descriptions down and/or good lines to use, and then rearranging them as necessary.

We watched the first half of it; we'll save the second for tomorrow. Pretty much everything I expect out of Agent Carter. Except...Peggy's sads when she was looking out the window!

Start the mantra now: "First draft...first draft..."

It's possible that your missing pages are in there, just in the wrong spot. Every once in a while a book can get a binding error and have a chunk of pages that got mixed into the wrong place. Sometimes you can even get a section put in upside down, which makes for some fun confusing people when they see you holding your book wrong. Still, you might want to shoot an e-mail off to the Dragonsteel folks who run the Sanderson store.

A lot will develop as you start working through the story. Basic questions will come up in your characters' day-to-day actions, and you'll have to work out the answers as you go. And you'll change your mind on some of them when you get a better idea pop into your head. The best way to do it is to just start writing. Technically, what I've written is fanfic, but I've got an entirely original cast of characters running around with their own problems and questions; not everything I need to know is out there. So there's some stuff that I had to make up based on conjecture and theory.

Hopefully I won't disappoint! (Eek, pressure.)

In my first draft, they were shorter; I thought it a bit too choppy so did some combining in the second draft. That said, I think that writing a longform all in one piece tends to make for a different "feel" to the chapters as you write the story. You're basically using scenes as chapters, and that works just fine for the way you're creating.

22, including the prologue and epilogue. The epilogue is actually super-short, but most of them run between 4,000 - 5,000 words each. I have one double-length chapter in there that I really ought to find a way to break into two. So that'd make 23.

I think it's graduation. ETA: Yay, 2 minutes till scraping time!

It's close. I still have a couple stray beta readers to round up, and then February is going to be the final revision. I want to start putting it up at the start of March. But so long as we're on the subject, I have to decide exactly how that's going to work. I know the structure I'm going to use (a thread in Creator's Corner, first post a table of contents, following pieces go up one chapter per post to avoid overflowing the character limit), but I need to work out the timeframe. 1. Post it up in one big chunk. I have assurances from admin that I can have the thread start out hidden until I get all of the chapters up. Pros: * Once it's up, it's all there; no worrying about whether it's going to become an abandoned work. * People can read at their own pace. Cons: * I have to slog through formatting everything all in one big chunk. Ugh, formatting. * Potential readers might be intimidated by the size. Maybe? I don't know. 2. Post it chapter by chapter, with something like a thrice-weekly update. Pros: * I only have to format one chapter at a time. * I get to read all the feedbacks! * Readers can have sort of a real-time chapter discussion. * The first chapter will be available sooner, and you won't have to wait to start reading. Cons: * People might not be patient with waiting and be annoyed with how slowly it's going up. * I might be totally overestimating how many people give a fat fig about my fic, and will be disappointed by no feedback. Oh, woe, the bruising of my fragile ego! So...I dunno. What do you guys think?

There'll be more layers to it than this, but that's the basic premise.

It isn't an acronym, it's the transliteration of the sound the TARDIS makes when it materializes and dematerializes. It's in all-caps because...well, because all license plates use capital letters.

Young woman in a mental hospital who has been seeing...things. Best-case scenario is that she's crazy. Worst-case is that fairies are real. And terrifying.