Be wise. Be brave. Be tricky. ([info]slithytove) wrote,
@ 2008-05-04 06:35:00
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Lovely Plumage: A Blasphemous Christian Fantasy For Young Readers



I took Lovely Plumage out for a walk in public for the first time yesterday. It was treated nicely by the Nameless ([info]filomancer, [info]pointoforigin, Ef, and Ricardo), critted gently, and survived the experience.

Food was consumed. Deer were spotted. The toilet did not run backwards. No one was deathly allergic to the cats. All are signs of a successful crit meeting.

I urged [info]filomancer to commit her thoughts about writing fiction to her LJ. They seemed penetrating at the time, but I had been up for 21 hours, and I fear they have skidded off my brain.

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[info]oracne
2008-05-05 06:19 pm UTC (link)
I was sad to miss.

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[info]slithytove
2008-05-06 01:35 am UTC (link)
And we were sad to miss you!

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[info]ktnflag
2008-05-06 06:00 am UTC (link)
That's a seriously great title.

How do you handle having others read your work before it's published while at the same time protecting your ideas from theft?

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[info]slithytove
2008-05-07 02:24 pm UTC (link)
It's not an issue. There are few new ideas in fiction, and no new plots or themes at all. What matters is *how* you write, how you flesh out your ideas and make them real, and entertain the reader. Writing skill is the product of a little native talent, and long years of practice. (Stephen King said that you have to write a million words of shit before you start writing worthwhile and salable fiction.) The stuff a writer has that's important can't be stolen.

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