how shall I thee know?

[aamcnamara]

Okay, so that other novel I was talking about in August? Has tripped me up and demanded to be written.

I now have 3300 words (not all of which were written tonight) and much excitement for continuing on.

Of course, I haven't finished the outline of the draft of the last novel yet. Um. So I should do that at some point. But it feels good just to write.

Comments

[klingonguy.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the thing to remember is that it's all writing.

Outlining is writing. Mulling plot points while you wander campus is writing. Having a conversation with your characters over breakfast is writing. Reading other people's books is writing (no, really). And yes, even sitting in classes on nonwriting subjects is writing because there's no such thing as nonwriting subjects!.

You are a writer. You are an organic machine designed to take all the world's input and perform a miraculous blackbox function upon it and then extrude finished prose.

Scary, huh?

[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

See, I think of all those things as "being a writer". Which, yes, definitely, being a writer is something I do all the time. (And the one noun I will allow to describe myself.)

"Writing" to me is sitting down and putting new words on a page, and "rewriting" is looking at what I have afterward and changing things around, and together those two parts are the miraculous blackbox function.

[aliseadae]

Same here.

Also, yay new novel!