| Heroes Short Story Master List |
[Oct. 22nd, 2020|10:56 am] |
ETA MAY 19, 2012. I'm finally back to writing stories.
It was pointed out to me that just dumping the stories into my blog made them a pain in the ass to find. And after collecting the links for the still relatively short list of stories, I've realized I haven't been consistent in my use of tags. At all. I will go back and fix that at some point.
But I'm also going to be keeping a list, updating as I go along. I'm organizing the stories according to the timeline of the world, not in order of my writing them. The link to the most recently added story with be in bold.
So, I hope this helps.
NEW STORY MAY 19, 2012
SHORT STORIES MASTER LIST:
A bit about the world’s history taken out of book one
http://moiraj.livejournal.com/48737.html#comments
Matching from Taro’s point of view
http://moiraj.livejournal.com/73322.html#cutid1
Tiny little snippet taken out of book one
http://moiraj.livejournal.com/55007.html#cutid1
Taro, early book one
http://moiraj.livejournal.com/123958.html#cutid1
Aryne: First Day at the Source Academy (during end of book three)
http://moiraj.livejournal.com/125736.html#cutid1
Aryne: Second Day at the Academy (during the end of book three)
http://moiraj.livejournal.com/128920.html#cutid1
Aryne: Five Weeks at the Academy (during end of book three)
http://moiraj.livejournal.com/134724.html#cutid1
Taro: Early in book five
http://moiraj.livejournal.com/130004.html#cutid1
Triple S council, meeting, near the end of book five
http://moiraj.livejournal.com/132757.html#cutid1
Letters to Lee and a story from Tarce's POV, between books six and seven
http://moiraj.livejournal.com/131034.html#cutid1
New One-Off Characters, between books six and seven
http://moiraj.livejournal.com/135972.html
New One-Off Characters, between books six and seven (other new characters)
http://moiraj.livejournal.com/152499.html#cutid1
Lee, immediately after book six
http://moiraj.livejournal.com/124898.html#cutid1
Willa Newscomb, Lady Green, shortly after book six.
http://moiraj.livejournal.com/126573.html#cutid1
Letter from Mika to Lee about two years after book six
http://moiraj.livejournal.com/125661.html#cutid1
Roshni Radia, Wind Watcher, 3 years after book six
http://moiraj.livejournal.com/127883.html#cutid1 |
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| Whining |
[May. 21st, 2012|11:37 am] |
You know what's infuriating? Getting kicked off the internet because of someone talking on the phone (we've tried a splitter, totally ineffective) and then being unable to get back on. There sheer illogic of it is what makes this particularly aggravating.
I tried shutting everything off and turning it back on without success. I don't know what to do now. |
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| Completely Rewriting the Team Book |
[May. 21st, 2012|10:10 am] |
So I started with a bit of brainstorming, which was very productive, and I'm pleased. Now, I'm writing the outline from the most recent draft of the book. I always write an outline for the first draft, but not later drafts, because I have the draft itself to guide me.
This time, I'm writing an outline as a sort of means of getting the plot line fixed in my mind, so I can stay in focus concerning what's gone so very wrong in the past, and realizing how they need to be changed.
So, under chapter six: COMPLETELY STUPID (EVENT) SCENE. Yes, I wrote it in caps and everything. Only a tiny element will survive the rewrite. It's actually kind of fun. |
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| The team book sucks |
[May. 20th, 2012|03:54 pm] |
So, I had the idea of a team series for a few years now. I think I wrote the first - which will ultimately be fourth in the series - back in 2005 or 2006. I started the team book I'm currently working on maybe two or three years ago. I had a definite focus for what will be the first team book, and I've written around three or four drafts of it.
But now, going through it again, well, it's awful. There are good elements to it, and I still like the overall message, but wow, this is bad. I am very embarrassed that I had a friend read it for a critique. I should have never inflicted this on her and I think I owe her a box of chocolates. Good chocolates that cost a mint.
Both the editor at ACE and my agent hated it. They didn't use those words, but yes, they hated it. I didn't expect them to like it, not because I thought it was trash, but because I just don't think the story is their kind of thing.
I'm embarrassed I let them see it, too.
I think a big problem with the book was that I sort of wrote it around writing the Triple S series, if that makes any sense. For example, when I handed in a Triple S to the editor for the first time, there would then be a few months of waiting, so I'd work on the team book. Then I'd get the Triple S book back, with a list of revisions, and I'd leave the team book to work on the Triple S book. Back and forth. And I think the result was a piece of crap re: the team book, which definitely got less attention than the Triple S books.
I've always known there were problems with the team book, and I expected to be able to fix those problems with subsequent drafts, but I don't think I can do that this time. It's like I've created certain ruts in the ground, and I'm kind of frozen into a certain mind-set that I simply can't get out of with fixing patches here and there.
So I'm starting over. I'll be using the same characters, and the same plot in the sense of knowing when I'm starting and where I'm ending, but this needs a new outline and a whole lot of different details. Because I really want to write this book and I'm not prepared to give up on it.
Still, starting all over. ugh. |
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| Regarding the naked picture of Prime Minister Stephen Harper |
[May. 19th, 2012|12:12 pm] |
I'm not going to provide links. You don't want to see this painting. I will never, ever be able to unsee it. Gah.
If you're driven to have a look, though, just search Stephen Harper naked. (My immediate thought as a next sentence was "There's a lot to see." What I meant is that there are a lot of links.)
I haven't been able to find any comments from Harper on the matter, but a spokesperson said the PM was offended (joke) because he was painted with a dog, and he's totally a cat person.
Why I'm posting about this is that there is a "controversy" about where the painting is currently being displayed, which is the public library in Kingston, Ontario. Some don't want it hung there, because children will see it.
The artist is ticked and she lost any respect I might have for her by comparing herself to the masters and saying they painted naked people, and do people think kids shouldn't see that? No problem with her ego there. And, she says, this is satire, which apparently means there should be no restrictions concerning who sees it. You know, Catch-22 is an exellent piece of satire, but I wouldn't want young kids reading it.
So, of course, there are all these cries of "Censorship!"
One thing: A public library is not an art gallery. Parents know that if they take their kids to an art gallery, the kids will be exposed to nudity. I don't think it's too much to ask that they don't have to worry about that sort of thing in a public library. And you know, parents should be able to decide that they don't want to expose their young children to nudity without being called uncultured prudes.
Second thing: The library is trying to reach a compromise by taking the painting down or covering it when there are children's events being held, and just when they think it should be, and then putting it back up when there aren't going to be tons of kids running around. It hasn't, to my knowledge, refused to show it anymore. Compromise. It's great.
Third thing: Do we really want to scar all their little minds so early in life? |
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| (no subject) |
[May. 15th, 2012|09:38 pm] |
I have been invited by Not So Closet Geek Reviews to participate in an event in which writers discuss the subjects of coming-of-age, growing up, or facing a major life change. I think Lee's bell rings all three times on this issue, but I'd like to get some input, if anyone would like to share. Those who do, it would be great if you sent it by message or my email, moirajmoore@yahoo.com. The site holding the event is here:
http://not-so-cg.blogspot.com/ |
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| (no subject) |
[May. 11th, 2012|02:09 pm] |
Dear National Arts Centre:
Ottawa is a bilingual city. Bilingual means two languages, in this case French AND English. When your contact info actually starts working, I'll be lodging a complaint about the fact that the sole message on your answering machine is only in French. Not only is it rude, but it lacks business sense. If I weren't arranging tickets for someone else, I'd skip you altogether and I will from now on be limiting my theatre experiences to Toronto. They're better there anyway. |
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[May. 11th, 2012|11:15 am] |
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There is a push to force fast food restaurants to put the number of calories beside the prices on the boards. At the beginning of the story, I was rolling my eyes. Stop spoon feeding people. Then one of the people behind it - some government type - put up a sample, including items that are advertised as healthy. She pointed out a dish that had been her favourite, and upon learning it was something like 1,500 calories, decided she will never eat it again. And I have to say I haven't touched anything from MacDonalds - or any other fastfood chain - since I looked up the fat and calorie content online two years ago. So maybe this would help some people avoid foods that they had no idea were as calorie-laden as they are. Not all people, of course, because many have no idea how many calories they should be consuming in a day, but some, and every little bit helps. |
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