it's a convoluted mess
I had twenty-some posts sitting in drafts. I finally went through and purged it down to four. I’d call that progress. I keep trying to write something about writing and it’s all coming out as indecipherable gibberish. Much like my writing. Par for the course. I did 1/2 mile in 10 minutes on the elliptical today. I’ll chalk that one up in the victory column. I’ve been doing 1/4 mile averaging 5.5 to 6.5 minutes… Keep reading…A familiar town…
I’m revisiting an old story project I started roughly eight years ago. I had a lot of hope for it at the time, but it was a struggle to accomplish much writing on it. I realized, after beating it into submission several times over, that one of the main characters was the problem. Other characters were properly constructed, but one…just wasn’t working. And he was an important character. If he didn’t work, there wasn’t much… Keep reading…The hardest part was yesterday…
MS Word keeps a running word count of a given document in the bottom corner of the screen. I know it’s not entirely accurate as it seems to count every so many spaces as words, but I figure it can’t be that far off from the actual numbers. I have a story document sitting at 78 pages and roughly 32,000 words. It was created December 5, 2010. I’ve been working on it off and on… Keep reading…Counted…
I have a lot of notes for my various writing projects. A lot of them are from back when I had a job. Something would pop into my head that sounded good and I knew I’d forget it by the time I got home, so I’d put it in a email to myself. I’ve been going through those notes a lot lately, looking for ideas and inspiration. A good chunk of those notes are for… Keep reading…Scribbled…
The battle to get something written wages on. I keep looking at projects I have in the works, ideas I have brewing, and everything eventually seems to circle back around to the same plan. I’m starting to think I should just quit trying to find something else to work on and just work on that one. I also need to stop trying to over-plan every last detail of said story and just write it. I… Keep reading…Circles…
When I start building characters for a story project, I cast them. I think in terms of, if this were a movie…who could I best see playing the roll? I don’t necessarily stick to strictly actors. I pull from anywhere, including real life. It’s much easier for me to write a character when I know what they look like. Even if the character’s personality is the polar opposite of their real-life counterpart. I know I’m… Keep reading…Starring…who?