NaNaWriMo Complete
For me, that is. I finished my NaNoWriMo novel last night: 27,134 words. I was about to write another scene to the ending, but I decided not to—it’s fine the way it is, and doesn’t need anymore. Technically it’s a novella, but it works for me.
I put off my proofing job last night in order to finish it, so now I have to spend the morning proofing, because I have about 3 hours before the editor hits their computer in California. *all hail time-zones* I’m only to check the spelling [since the grammar and initial spell check were completed prior, by a different pair of eyes.] It’s easier for me to do this if I’m not ‘given a PDF’ to work with. :/ I had one proof gig where I was given a PDF and I just can’t be 100% with those. With image files, I can simply remove the artwork and read only the letter/balloon layer. This allows me not to get so caught up in the visuals, and I can better read for clarity. It’s tards like me that force some pubs to have more than one proofer (^_^). I’m only doing this for a friend, as proofing isn’t my usual cup of tea, but I’m not writing for money at the moment, so I might as well do something for some cash.
Today is comic shop day, since nothing was in yesterday because of the holiday last week. I’m going out for #3 of MPD Psycho, and the Scarface issue that didn’t ship two weeks ago.
*yawn* I want to be asleep.
Because morning rants are good for the soul…
I just saw the most ridiculous Amazon review for 30 Days of Night, I’ve ever seen. Don’t get me wrong, the review was written well, and had some seriously valid points…but NEWSFLASH, you’re reviewing a book about vampires! If this was a book about Russian Commandos invading Barrow, I could see your need to have Alaska, and Barrow, depicted as 100% accurate, or else. But this is a vampire horror—its entire premise is fantastical-fiction by default!! Most of us know Barrow has more than 300 people…yes; there are technically about 45 days of night—and do we really care that there’s no official posting of ‘sheriff’ in Barrow? Dude…loosen the cheeks. He didn’t write a travel brochure for Barrow disguised as a graphic novel. Luckily, there’s plenty of comments there telling this dude to mellow out, but I have to wonder…what the hell happened to ‘writing fiction’ and having the occasional fact be skewed. Are there that many people out there so anal that just one or two inaccuracies will ruin an entire book for them? Maybe readers like this should stop reading fiction, and stick solely to biographies. How about dramatizations of real events?
This is like my worst nightmare with Amazon reviews, getting that one goober that’s so put off by something minor, they take it to the extreme by giving the entire book one-star. I kid you now, when Loud Snow releases in September, and I get some bip on there who decides that a book about an ice-age killer whale who come onto land as a man in order to woo a guy he’s fallen in love with, deserves only 1 Star because ‘there’s no penguins in the North Atlantic’, I will personally find out the address of that reviewer, go to their house, knock on their door, and when they open it—smack them square in the face with a brick of frozen broccoli.
Coffee.
