Draculas

Jeff

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You totally could have put in that file, but it doesn't matter. I'll merge everything into the main file soon. We're closing in on 15K words, boys!

Blake

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Brilliant...favorite moment: he hopes the security camera catches him wiping the gore off his face. Also love the utility belt. I love this guy.

Blake

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Pitch-perfect

Blake

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It's in the dropbox now, and is the complete manuscript with all our work to present. I need to write an Oasis scene, Joe needs to write a Je

Goodnight!

Blake

August 21, 2010

I'm actually working on DRACULAS 1.5, adding the Je

I took out the chapter numbers, as Blake and I originally intended--this thing is meant to read without stops. Also, HOUR 1 was replaced with HOUR ZERO and we go from there, but I'm not sure these headings are needed either. We'll keep them for the moment.

Joe

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But we're going to keep chapter numbers while we're working, right? Just to keep straight the order of events.

Paul

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Sure, we can keep chapters in out individual scenes. I just removed them in the main compiled document. As a result, it reads quicker, more unrelenting.

But as we write them in our folders, chapters are fine.

Joe

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Yeah, let's keep the hours and character headings for now. I certainly need them to help keep my story straight and it's a good way to scan. Maybe the last thing we'll do is remove them, but we should probably think hard before doing that.

Blake

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When we've all finished our main character arcs, we'll have to decide how and if to splice them together in the main document. My initial thought would be to interweave them, breaking at cliffhanging moments. What will be really cool, is we can release an alternate version of the novel (an extra) where POVs are held together through the end. So you can read Moorecook straight through, then Lanz, then Randall, then Je

Blake

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Okay, we've got 1.5 in the Dropbox.

Paul, we need a Sha

Jeff, your first scene is Randall's POV, going with Je

Paul, your first scene is Clayton arriving, looking for Sha

My story arc will start with Je

Blake's story arc will be his pregnant couple, defending against Oasis in particular, while going through labor.

If we can each do about 7,000 words within our arcs, then we can bring them all together for the final showdown during the last quarter of the book.

After the Sha

Does this work for everyone?

Joe

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We should probably each have a specific number of chapters to write in our separate arcs (4?) so that when the story is pieced together we can just go A, B, C, D, A, B, C, D, A, B, C, D.

Jeff

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That depends on the length of each arc, and what's happening in the rest of the story. It doesn't have to be so strict with trading POVs.

As long as we all write fast-paced, short sections (a few pages each) with cliffhanger-type endings, we can pretty much cut and paste and make it work in a number of different ways. This really won't be hard to put together. We got 15k words already, and they meshed seamlessly without too much forethought.

Joe

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I'm having a hard time getting to the keyboard today (not home). I'm go

Paul

August 22, 2010

All - Draculas 1.6 is now up with Paul's excellent new Sha

Blake

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JEFF 2.0, wherein Randall and Je

Jeff

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Nicely done. I laughed twice, and great action.

Two suggestions:

"Je

Also, Je

This is a perfect time to actually make the reader feel about the characters, and it should only take a paragraph. If you're sick of writing the scene, lemme know and I'll take a shot at it.

Joe

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I du

There are plenty of other ways I can handle the scene (Mortimer could be chasing after a kid), but I don't think the reader will stick with Randall if Je

Jeff

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Just read the scene, have to agree with Jeff. It's a stupid thing to do to leave those kids, even for Randall. figure out some way to MAKE Randall have to leave, and I think having a child freaked out, and run out of pediatrics and Randall have to go get him might be the way. Then Randall can get stuck, trapped, lost, whatever. Okay, I can't even spell pediatrics.

Blake

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You guys are right.

How about he doesn't go after anyone? Let me write a scene where they're together, barricading pediatrics, and then have a kid run off.

Joe

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