Lizet's Place

Purposefully posting this to my personal account even though it relates to ogsafehaven.

I'm working on the background & characters for my original story and pinging in the back of my head is the pov. Not only for the story but my writing style pov.

Over the last 18 yrs it's been 3rd person limited or 3rd person omniscient.

I feel comfortable writing in that POV and I know that I don't want The Safe Haven Trail written in another POV, but is that what's best for the story?

The scarier thing I have to think about now, is what the driving force of the story is.

As I discover more about these characters, it's becomming apparent that this is about family and the supernatural is a minor point...almost an afterthought of "oh...this would make the story cooler".

Since I actually haven't devoted much thought to the supernatural aspect, do I keep it or remove it?

I'm expanding a short fic into a longer fic for a big bang and one of the chapters I can't figure out how to reference the original story without actually using the original story.

eta I think I figured out how I can do this. I can use the dialog because the rest brings up stuff I will have mentioned earlier in the story and i don't want to be repetitive.

how to I get my Word spell checker to stay in US English?

This fic I'm beta reading was written with a version of Word from Ireland, so the spell checker/dictionary that's coming up is using English from Ireland. My Hawaiian words, contractions and slang words are coming up as wrong. It's also saying the grammar is wrong as well.

Anyone know how to fix this?

eta: got it sorted. yay

I beta checking a chapter of a fic and while it's only the 2nd chapter, I wear this author is comma happy and anti-all other punctuation.

It's making my already present headache worse, but I'm determined to help this author because I like the simple story she has going.

working on a Danny and Grace fic that I hope turns out fluffy

I was hoping that it would work with my cottoncandy_bingo card, but from the outline, I don't think it'll fit any of the squares.

That's okay. I really need to write something.

In the mean time. I should catch as many Zzzzz's as I can. I haven't been sleeping well the last few nights

I was feeling pretty frazzled last night (just ask huntress69) and ended up asking my dad to look over my casestory BB because it was down to the wire and I couldn't think of anyone online who could beta my 16,000 word fic.

while he did that, I worked on some graphics. Got 1.5 done.

I'm going to be working on this the rest of the day - going over the corrections my dad made and making graphics.

I'll probably end up positing it like 10pm or 11pm

crap crap CRAP!

I was supposed to have been done with my casestory fic LAST WEEK so that I could find a beta.

I don't post until July 10th, but I need to give myself at least 4 days for corrections and coding, so I'd need to have it back from the beta by July 6. I would HOPE that 2 weeks is enough beta time, so that means I need to be sending it to beta no later than this Friday, June 22.

UGH

I have 2.5 parts left to finish. meh

eta took out a section on the part I'm working on and now I'm down to 2 parts. w00t!

I probably just created more work for myself, but I printed out the first 2 parts (15 pages) of my casestory fic and I'm editing them with red pen. but that wasn't the reason I printed them out. I wanted them so that I could easily refer to them while working on parts 3, 4 and 5 and I didn't have to continually open the documents for those parts. once i finish part 3, I'll print that out to help with part 4 and 5...later, rinse, repeat until the story is complete.

Then I'll go through and transfer the corrections from the hard copy to the digital copy and email to my beta (huntress69, will you be able to look over 10-12k words? I don't know when I'll be finish with it, but I hope I'll be done in the next 14-15 days)

working with the hard copy of this fic reminds me of editing essays for school...or how I used to hand write my fics back when I first started writing in 2002. and also reading this out loud has me feeling better about the story as a whole. not quite as much self doubt and comparing going on.

I think I might have accidentally extended But Why Daddy? by a chapter (or two), but I'm really trying not to make that happen.

I'm working on chapter 17 (which won't get posted on Wednesday like it's supposed to) and I'm trying to advance the story for the 3 year time jump in the epilogue/chapter 18, but I don't want to bog down 17 with too much.

I hate ending multi-chapter fics with odd numbers. That's one of my fic hang ups - even numbered chapters!

I have to remember this fic I'm working on is past tense. I need to get in the habit of writing in that form, but I keep slipping to present tense.

good thing this fic will be beta read before I post it.

In an hour, broken up into two 30 minutes blocks, I wrote 650 words (or there abouts).