Does it still count as hypergraphia if I have to make myself sit down first?

[tahariel]

Hi to all my lovely new friends I made today on lemniciate's friend-rec'ing-meme-thing! *waves at you all*


Something cool I found today: Edit Minion is an internet tool that scans your prose for weak words, funny word placements, cliches etc and points them out to you so you can decide whether to change things or not. Obviously real editing is still down to you, but I quite like it, and plan to use it to strengthen my writing in future. Speaking of...

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I have a terrible feeling this story is going to be a lot longer than I intended it to be, seeing as I'm, like, a fifth of the way into my proposed wordcount and they haven't even gone on the lam yet. This would not be a problem except that I kind of want to see about getting this published someday and first time novelists find it very difficult to sell what I understand the industry calls 'chihuahua killers.'

(So named because if you hold it out at shoulder height and drop it, it would kill a chihuahua stone dead. Trufax. I am not even making this up, yo.)

However, Pachua is fast becoming the best character, despite being the only one who can't talk. Why so awesome, giant bird-lizard?

Comments

[lemniciate.livejournal.com]

Hello there! :DDD

[awayfromlife.livejournal.com]

Hiiiiiiiiiii!:D Nice to meet you.

That site sounds really useful, I'll definitely try it. Once I managed to make myself write something creative, I mean. Thesis is kicking my ass rn./o\

Giant bird-lizard? Please tell me more.:D

[tahariel.livejournal.com]

My MC is a messenger who rides around on a ginormous dragonbird* called Pachua that thinks he's her baby, despite the fact that he's a reptile and she's a mammal, and he's about fifty feet long and twelve foot high. It mostly started out as a 'wouldn't it be cool if you could ride around on a giant bird-lizard?' and has sort of devolved into 'he CHIRPS LIKE A BIRD and likes to curl around her so she can't escape! And also to headbutt people so they fall over because he likes the way they smell!'

*A dragonbird has the head and body of a snake, with the wings and legs of a bird. The wings are feathery, the legs are scaly. See icon :D