Taking Control
Aug. 19th, 2010 07:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aamcnamaraCapital letters in my post title! Woo!
Recipe for alleviating post-novel slump:
- Buy a bunch of new music, wildly inappropriate for just-finished novel (Hadestown, some Imogen Heap, "A Glorious Dawn")
- Spend three hours re-plasticking dust jackets in the library; reconstruct a dust-jacket's flaps when it decides it is too old and brittle to come off the book, and manage to get most of the letters back together
- Write down all the things you need to fix in the next draft of the book, to get them onto a page and out of your head
- Open belated birthday present to find Really Awesome Pen from Really Awesome Person... which makes writing something, anything, a deeply tempting proposition
- Buy strawberry-flavored iced green tea with those tapioca pearl thingies in it, sit on playground and drink it (tapioca pearls have a disconcerting texture/consistency)
- Swing on the swingset, come up with first paragraph for the other Sequel You're Totally Not Writing
- Sit by the lake, write down said first paragraph, walk home in the not-rain swinging your umbrella
The cover of my new writing notebook has that neat texture that they get when they're rained on, now.
Still don't know what my next project is--the rest of the Badass Library Hermits rewrite, maybe?--but I am starting to believe that this last one is done.
Recipe for alleviating post-novel slump:
- Buy a bunch of new music, wildly inappropriate for just-finished novel (Hadestown, some Imogen Heap, "A Glorious Dawn")
- Spend three hours re-plasticking dust jackets in the library; reconstruct a dust-jacket's flaps when it decides it is too old and brittle to come off the book, and manage to get most of the letters back together
- Write down all the things you need to fix in the next draft of the book, to get them onto a page and out of your head
- Open belated birthday present to find Really Awesome Pen from Really Awesome Person... which makes writing something, anything, a deeply tempting proposition
- Buy strawberry-flavored iced green tea with those tapioca pearl thingies in it, sit on playground and drink it (tapioca pearls have a disconcerting texture/consistency)
- Swing on the swingset, come up with first paragraph for the other Sequel You're Totally Not Writing
- Sit by the lake, write down said first paragraph, walk home in the not-rain swinging your umbrella
The cover of my new writing notebook has that neat texture that they get when they're rained on, now.
Still don't know what my next project is--the rest of the Badass Library Hermits rewrite, maybe?--but I am starting to believe that this last one is done.
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Date: 2010-08-20 01:05 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-08-20 01:32 am (UTC)(Who knows, though, maybe someday I will write something with actual badass library hermits in it.)
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Date: 2010-08-20 01:39 am (UTC)Concerning the current WIP...of all the librarians I know, I don't think I'd call any of them candy-asses. Toughminded individuals, all.
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Date: 2010-08-20 01:47 am (UTC)I'd believe that, too--well, the idea's ticking about in the back of my brain; it'll probably pop up when I least expect it and I'll look at my then-WIP and say "Hey, wait a sec, s/he's a badass library hermit!". (And the working title of that novel will be something along the lines of 'Shiny Happy Unicorn Book'. So it goes.)
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Date: 2010-08-21 03:56 pm (UTC)I think Ellipse is her newest one. I grabbed that too. It's growing on me. "Canvas" is a great song.
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Date: 2010-08-22 09:46 pm (UTC)