Just spent 6 hours editing a novel. Ask me anything.

[VelmaD]

My eyeballs are about to melt outta my head. Spent 6 hours tonight editing one of my best friend's novels and I'm only through about 200 pages. Woohoo - only 425 more pages to go.

I double dog dare someone to ask me what kind of novel it is. :evilgrin:

[caledesi]

1. Is Fabio on the cover? LOL!

[VelmaD]

3. Nope...he has too much hair

The main characters in the novel are all in the military - no long flowing manes. :-)

[BurtWorm]

2. Are any of the pages stuck together?

[VelmaD]

5. No sticky pages...

no pages at all. Was editing the electronic copy.

[BurtWorm]

9. Ah.

Much less messy that way. ;)

[foxy]

4. Suspense right?

Love It

[VelmaD]

6. er...no...

gay porn actually :-)

[sandsn00]

7. okies

Will you marry me now?

[VelmaD]

12. Hee...

Sorry, but no. I'm not the marrying kind. But don't let that stop you from throwing yourself at my feet or anything. ;-)

[Occulus]

8. My, my, my.

So did it do a thing for you? Or do you need a thorough cleansing?

[whirlygigspin]

10. was there any missspeelingses?

or, um and , a lot of, should I say, useless and or; weird punk-tuations mistakers??...,

625 pages? that's one long porn story there Velma.

[VelmaD]

15. Ther wer sum misplelinses

But not a lot. The only one that drives me nuts is that her co-author constantly misspells y'all. She spells it ya'll, which drives me absolutely batshit.

And yeah, it's kinda long but it isn't all porn. There's some actual plot in amongst all the sex. Go figure. :shrug:

[VelmaD]

13. Yes it did and yes I do

I totally dig the boy-on-boy thing (or in this care the boy-on-boy-on-boy thing). Yumm. *drool*

[GOPisEvil]

11. I just got home from the Continental Club. Don't ask me squat!

I'm going to bed, dammit! :P

[VelmaD]

17. I'll ask you questions if I wanna.

So there. :P

Did you have fun? Did you meet anybody "interesting"? Did ya...ya know? ;-)

[GOPisEvil]

31. Had a blast! Yes, I met someone interesting, but not like you think.

I met the guitarist/banjo player for The Damnations. He's an old friend of another DUer, so I walked up and said hi.

:-)

[joeybee12]

14. Double spaced or single spaced?

Is it really porn, or more homo-erotic?

[VelmaD]

16. Good question...

my brain is still so blurry that I don't rightly remember. Single spaced I think.

And it's kinda both - homo-erotic and porn. The "answer" would totally depend on how a person defined those terms. I tend toward saying it's porn becuase there's some very straight ahead just plain fuckin in it. But like I said in another post - it has a plot too and some of the sex isn't written "porn"-y. Sorry, that wasn't a very coherent answer. :-)

[joeybee12]

19. I think I see what you mean

And if it's single-spaced, then it is one monster huge book!

[VelmaD]

22. It sure feels "monster huge"

I have several more hours of editing to do today and probably tomorrow too. I'm thinking my best friend owes me after this one. I'm thinking maybe make her cook my favoritest thing or take me out for ice cream or something. :-)

[joeybee12]

24. And speaking of "monster huge"--any "memorable" characters in this

novel?

[VelmaD]

28. It's porn...

everybody is "memorable" *coughcough* in porn.

Nice euphamism btw. :-)

[joeybee12]

30. If only that were true in real life--then again, we might not appreciate

the truly memorable if everybody was!

[VelmaD]

32. Given that my most recent ex...

was something less then "memorable" I for one wouldn't complain if everyone was. ;-)

[NightTrain]

18. I can relate!

For longer than I care to remember, I've been revising (and revising and revising!) my novel, DEADWAX, a murder mystery set in the world of record collecting. Every time I think I'm ready to start marketing the damned thing, I find other areas of it that I think need work. Christ, what a pain in the ass!

[VelmaD]

20. Good luck

with your novel.

Have you submitted it anywhere yet? At some point you have to let go of the editorial process and put that puppy out there. :-)

[NightTrain]

29. I have three people reading it right now

Figured I'd wait until they provided me with some feedback, and then go from there.

[THUNDER HANDS]

21. can you add in a Magic Rat character

With a 625-page novel, I doubt anyone would notice if you included a dashing young hero from Long Island. :D

[VelmaD]

23. Well, would you like...

to have sex with all 3 of the main characters - hot boy-on-boy-on-boy-on-Magic Rat action? ;-)

[THUNDER HANDS]

25. isn't there a chick in this novel?

Like...even a housekeeper or something? :D

[joeybee12]

26. I'm sure there are lost of "chicks"--novels like these always throw in a

farm scene or something. Nothing like a hayloft for clandestine sex!

[VelmaD]

27. Well, one of the characters...

is a nurse so there are some female nurses he works with in the story. ;-)