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cblj_backupWow, okay, posting all that was interesting.
The first half of Trace is up. I'm doing some final little tweaks, so you get chapters 1 - 12 today (which seems more than enough to satisfy) and 13 - 25 tomorrow. Lest you think I drastically expanded it from the nine chapters it was, such is not the case; I just figured out that a couple of tiny chapters here and there could prevent a whole lot of confusion. It's a nice step, becoming more obsessed with properly telling the story than I am with chapter-size symmetry.
(Joe Orton had some wise words on this, namely "The theatre is the Temple of Dionysus, and not Apollo. You do the Dionysus thing on your typewriter, and then you allow a little Apollo in, just a little to shape and guide it...but you can't allow Apollo in completely.")
Anyway, you can go to the index post with links to all posted chapters, or you can go straight to chapter one here and you'll get links to the rest. Or if you'd like to read over the old version, you can check out the Trace tag.
Some of you may possibly be baffled by my continuing talk of Trace, or be new to the journal and thus to the concept of Extribulum, a dog-Latin term I invented which means "Out from the machine". (The threshing machine but, well, it IS the internet after all.) Extribulum as a term is still in flux, but at its most basic refers to a document whose first life is digital -- an e-book without hard-published format, an online novel, et cetera. More specifically, it is a document which not only has a first-digital life but which undergoes a process of criticism and change in that life -- I post these books online, you tell me what you think, and I rework them accordingly.
What's going up today and tomorrow is the "second" draft, which has taken your feedback into account; the third draft, barring major upheaval, will be published as a free .PDF and a for-pay hard copy book via Lulu.com. Please feel free to comment on the story, offer your thoughts, and correct any typos you may see. Especially those of you unfamiliar with White Collar, the original fanfic version of this (Never Leave A Trace), and the first draft -- your thoughts are welcome.
Hope you guys like it. Because if you don't, I am so screwed...:D
The first half of Trace is up. I'm doing some final little tweaks, so you get chapters 1 - 12 today (which seems more than enough to satisfy) and 13 - 25 tomorrow. Lest you think I drastically expanded it from the nine chapters it was, such is not the case; I just figured out that a couple of tiny chapters here and there could prevent a whole lot of confusion. It's a nice step, becoming more obsessed with properly telling the story than I am with chapter-size symmetry.
(Joe Orton had some wise words on this, namely "The theatre is the Temple of Dionysus, and not Apollo. You do the Dionysus thing on your typewriter, and then you allow a little Apollo in, just a little to shape and guide it...but you can't allow Apollo in completely.")
Anyway, you can go to the index post with links to all posted chapters, or you can go straight to chapter one here and you'll get links to the rest. Or if you'd like to read over the old version, you can check out the Trace tag.
Some of you may possibly be baffled by my continuing talk of Trace, or be new to the journal and thus to the concept of Extribulum, a dog-Latin term I invented which means "Out from the machine". (The threshing machine but, well, it IS the internet after all.) Extribulum as a term is still in flux, but at its most basic refers to a document whose first life is digital -- an e-book without hard-published format, an online novel, et cetera. More specifically, it is a document which not only has a first-digital life but which undergoes a process of criticism and change in that life -- I post these books online, you tell me what you think, and I rework them accordingly.
What's going up today and tomorrow is the "second" draft, which has taken your feedback into account; the third draft, barring major upheaval, will be published as a free .PDF and a for-pay hard copy book via Lulu.com. Please feel free to comment on the story, offer your thoughts, and correct any typos you may see. Especially those of you unfamiliar with White Collar, the original fanfic version of this (Never Leave A Trace), and the first draft -- your thoughts are welcome.
Hope you guys like it. Because if you don't, I am so screwed...:D
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Date: 2011-06-22 05:41 pm (UTC)Sometimes the things you say (or quote) confused the heck outta me. But I suppose that's what you get when you're a science geek with little exposure to the classics.
Excited to read, but a little intimidated by the whole half a book at a time thing. :D Will start reading tonight (or to procrastinate this afternoon)!
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Date: 2011-06-22 07:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-22 08:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-22 05:49 pm (UTC)...That says a lot about me, doesn't it? LOL
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Date: 2011-06-22 07:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-22 06:49 pm (UTC)Also, my experience with White Collar remains having read your fic liking this Trace so much. Amused? I am.
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Date: 2011-06-22 07:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-23 03:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-23 03:15 pm (UTC)