I have tried in my way to be free
Mar. 10th, 2008 08:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aamcnamaraWell.
In the interim: Clarion specified a week before the application deadline that they don't consider minors (much tearing of hair), applications duly sent off to Alpha and IYWS, the school musical had its first weekend, I did a lot of homework...
I realized today that it was the first day in about a week that I haven't worn black, and spent the rest of the day gleefully telling people this. "I'm not wearing ANY black clothing today!" The plight of the backstage manager.
The best moment, undoubtedly, was, however, when I was at GSA after school and three of the other four people who'd turned up were having a ludicrous competition over beating the other persons' handmade or otherwise obscure clothes. The fourth turned to me. "Well, what are you wearing that's handmade?" "I'm not wearing anything that I made, I don't think," said I, "but I'm not wearing anything that's black."
Odyssey's deadline is Yet To Come, so I need to stop my mind wandering and go over Story #2 a few more times. (In the interim, it morphed into something quite different, but with characteristics of, both previous versions of Story #2. Including gay girls. Ouch.)
Or, maybe even a better idea, now that I'm out from under the shadow of all these deadlines--I can now write things purely for fun, instead of going obsessively over a couple of stories.
The main problem may be finding ideas. Usually I get ideas in the summer or over breaks from school, when my mind has time to relax and let things move together naturally. Both Story #1 and Story #2 were based on ideas I first started exploring last summer.
But there's one that I dug up somewhere that's started growing tendrils into my brain. Prying apart cracks with its little white roots and new green leaves, that sort of thing. I may find myself going off to research some elements of it--library, anyone?--and writing different versions of a first few scenes. I know a few tensions, and I know a few things about it, but I'd like to know more.
One thing I would really love to learn how to do is how to write a novel without the crutch of NaNoWriMo. It's an awesome month, and it's lots of fun, but I'm worried about how I'll be able to stand up without knowing the community is there behind me.
Of course, the ironic thing is that when I do NaNoWriMo, I hardly even touch the forums, and when I do, I don't talk about novels. I just write. Maybe what I need is the starter-gun aspect of NaNo. The anticipation, and the buildup, to that one thought: novel. novel.
In the interim: Clarion specified a week before the application deadline that they don't consider minors (much tearing of hair), applications duly sent off to Alpha and IYWS, the school musical had its first weekend, I did a lot of homework...
I realized today that it was the first day in about a week that I haven't worn black, and spent the rest of the day gleefully telling people this. "I'm not wearing ANY black clothing today!" The plight of the backstage manager.
The best moment, undoubtedly, was, however, when I was at GSA after school and three of the other four people who'd turned up were having a ludicrous competition over beating the other persons' handmade or otherwise obscure clothes. The fourth turned to me. "Well, what are you wearing that's handmade?" "I'm not wearing anything that I made, I don't think," said I, "but I'm not wearing anything that's black."
Odyssey's deadline is Yet To Come, so I need to stop my mind wandering and go over Story #2 a few more times. (In the interim, it morphed into something quite different, but with characteristics of, both previous versions of Story #2. Including gay girls. Ouch.)
Or, maybe even a better idea, now that I'm out from under the shadow of all these deadlines--I can now write things purely for fun, instead of going obsessively over a couple of stories.
The main problem may be finding ideas. Usually I get ideas in the summer or over breaks from school, when my mind has time to relax and let things move together naturally. Both Story #1 and Story #2 were based on ideas I first started exploring last summer.
But there's one that I dug up somewhere that's started growing tendrils into my brain. Prying apart cracks with its little white roots and new green leaves, that sort of thing. I may find myself going off to research some elements of it--library, anyone?--and writing different versions of a first few scenes. I know a few tensions, and I know a few things about it, but I'd like to know more.
One thing I would really love to learn how to do is how to write a novel without the crutch of NaNoWriMo. It's an awesome month, and it's lots of fun, but I'm worried about how I'll be able to stand up without knowing the community is there behind me.
Of course, the ironic thing is that when I do NaNoWriMo, I hardly even touch the forums, and when I do, I don't talk about novels. I just write. Maybe what I need is the starter-gun aspect of NaNo. The anticipation, and the buildup, to that one thought: novel. novel.