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Writing again. And studying. I managed to do both in the same day, yay.
Section by section, yesterday was slightly productive. I transcribed 640 more words of Spare Parts and found a connection that had lain forgotten for several years now. It seems I do like to run and weave my threads between tales.
62 new words of Fallback, which is annoyingly tricky for a story intended to be easy. Forget the calculations, it needs some character. Dwell on something.
165 new words of Discourteous Joe, for which I have decided to drop the idea of a mystery subplot unless it leaps out at me. This story too is meant to be fast and fun.
311 new words for Elegant Girl, an interlude with the Girl herself. There is a tale interrupted, which needs getting back to.
361 words of an untitled new story which I invented yesterday to fill a lack in the kinds of tale I was writing. It may hold resonance with another, as yet untitled story I have been working on this year, or not.
290 new words of Sheldon, which is a working title for the prologue of a novel I have not touched in some time, more properly titled Relics.
And that poem, which just sort of happened last night.
I may in fact post some of these. Fallback and that untitled story, since those were created to be written quickly. Sheldon, friends-locked, since it is a draft of something I may try to publish someday. Elegant Girl is a Jayde story and will be posted on Wednesdays which is when stories are intended to happen. This is not a breaking of my intention to hold off on posting finished stories until I have a better handle on my rhythm and perhaps on Wednesday you will see why and perhaps some of you already do.
Of the stories I am currently working on, I seem to be missing anything set in a modern urban environment, so perhaps I will do some work on James Hoyt or M/M too.
It is only for this month that drafts in progress get posted. Perhaps I will place them all under a friends-lock.
Spare Parts:
Fallback:
Discourteous Joe:
Elegant Girl:
untitled:
Sheldon:
Monthly Goal:
Nearly three thousand words over now, and the wordmeter has been 'fixed' so it no longer shows that.
Excessive goal:
To make that total I would need to write 2294 words/day for the rest of the month. That really does not look like it is going to happen. I have boosted my daily total to an amount that would have satisfied it originally but is now and still hundreds of words short, and doubtful that I could switch gears so rapidly as to exceed it yet again, or find inspiration in one single story to match it.
One problem is, as advised against, these are nearly all old stories, which demand they not be ruined. Though I have never been a speedy writer. The two which are new (ish, Fallback is a story I was going to write anyway) are not of captivating inspiration. I do not get that, or when I do, first throttle it with thought before. I cannot seem to couple the thrill of the idea with the act of writing it out. One or the other must be dead first.
I may be near the end of this switching phase for a while, though, and settle to work on particular stories for at least a few days at a time. Unfortunately there are about half a dozen other stories I am not working on right now burning at me too. Poor Luri has been left sitting in bandages nearly half a year.
Need to focus. It will do no good to be distracted, vague, and unable to capture the essence of each tale for delivery. I shall strive to tell exactly as many tales as I can tell well, and no more.
Section by section, yesterday was slightly productive. I transcribed 640 more words of Spare Parts and found a connection that had lain forgotten for several years now. It seems I do like to run and weave my threads between tales.
62 new words of Fallback, which is annoyingly tricky for a story intended to be easy. Forget the calculations, it needs some character. Dwell on something.
165 new words of Discourteous Joe, for which I have decided to drop the idea of a mystery subplot unless it leaps out at me. This story too is meant to be fast and fun.
311 new words for Elegant Girl, an interlude with the Girl herself. There is a tale interrupted, which needs getting back to.
361 words of an untitled new story which I invented yesterday to fill a lack in the kinds of tale I was writing. It may hold resonance with another, as yet untitled story I have been working on this year, or not.
290 new words of Sheldon, which is a working title for the prologue of a novel I have not touched in some time, more properly titled Relics.
And that poem, which just sort of happened last night.
I may in fact post some of these. Fallback and that untitled story, since those were created to be written quickly. Sheldon, friends-locked, since it is a draft of something I may try to publish someday. Elegant Girl is a Jayde story and will be posted on Wednesdays which is when stories are intended to happen. This is not a breaking of my intention to hold off on posting finished stories until I have a better handle on my rhythm and perhaps on Wednesday you will see why and perhaps some of you already do.
Of the stories I am currently working on, I seem to be missing anything set in a modern urban environment, so perhaps I will do some work on James Hoyt or M/M too.
It is only for this month that drafts in progress get posted. Perhaps I will place them all under a friends-lock.
Spare Parts:
| |
3,303 + 640 (19.4% more) |
Fallback:
| |
569 + 62 (10.9% more) |
Discourteous Joe:
| |
3,214 + 165 (5.1% more) |
Elegant Girl:
| |
1,802 + 311 (17.3% more) |
untitled:
| |
1 + 360 (36000.0% more) |
Sheldon:
| |
153 + 290 (189.5% more) |
Monthly Goal:
Nearly three thousand words over now, and the wordmeter has been 'fixed' so it no longer shows that.
Excessive goal:
| |
8,706 / 50,000 (16.0%) |
To make that total I would need to write 2294 words/day for the rest of the month. That really does not look like it is going to happen. I have boosted my daily total to an amount that would have satisfied it originally but is now and still hundreds of words short, and doubtful that I could switch gears so rapidly as to exceed it yet again, or find inspiration in one single story to match it.
One problem is, as advised against, these are nearly all old stories, which demand they not be ruined. Though I have never been a speedy writer. The two which are new (ish, Fallback is a story I was going to write anyway) are not of captivating inspiration. I do not get that, or when I do, first throttle it with thought before. I cannot seem to couple the thrill of the idea with the act of writing it out. One or the other must be dead first.
I may be near the end of this switching phase for a while, though, and settle to work on particular stories for at least a few days at a time. Unfortunately there are about half a dozen other stories I am not working on right now burning at me too. Poor Luri has been left sitting in bandages nearly half a year.
Need to focus. It will do no good to be distracted, vague, and unable to capture the essence of each tale for delivery. I shall strive to tell exactly as many tales as I can tell well, and no more.
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Date: 2007-11-12 04:15 (UTC)From:MY STUDY IS COMPLETE> I SHALL NEVER STUDY AGAIN. Mwahahahahahaha!
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Date: 2007-11-12 04:22 (UTC)From:Also, merci.
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Date: 2007-11-12 05:56 (UTC)From:well, maybe next semester...no subject
Date: 2007-11-12 06:06 (UTC)From: