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telling stories in the dark
Mar. 1st, 2009 12:51 pmThis morning's goal was "write a draft of that play I keep talking about", which actually happened. Eleven pages in my not-a-script-format script style--if I put it into true script format, it'd probably reach eighteen or something, but I'm too lazy to do that right now. Especially for a rough draft.
It was good work, if only to get an idea of how the story goes. It was also good to just sit down with my computer and type out a story. I think the style change--fiction to play--helped me detach from my expectations of "this must be the best! story! ever!" and just do the work. Not that I want to start writing scripts all the time, now, but it was a useful exercise.
And then, of course, when I went online to post a happy little "I finished a draft!" note, I found out that Shadow Unit 2x01 had been uploaded. Since I have been waiting for that for months, I of course had to go and read it right away.
Which means that at about 12:30 I finished reading "Lucky Day" and fell over from catharsis/emotional identification overload. So I went and ate a languid lunch, read some headlines from The Onion, and now am typing a LJ post. If possible, I will not do any more reading or writing today, of any sort more creative than changing the format of the citations in my history paper.
But I have a draft of a play, which is one more draft than I had when I woke up today, and I got to read Shadow Unit, and today is a beautiful day.
As for the YA SF stuff--thanks, everyone, for the responses; I've already picked up a couple of books from those comments. Soon, though not today, I will read them, and keep trying to write that story I was talking about.
It was good work, if only to get an idea of how the story goes. It was also good to just sit down with my computer and type out a story. I think the style change--fiction to play--helped me detach from my expectations of "this must be the best! story! ever!" and just do the work. Not that I want to start writing scripts all the time, now, but it was a useful exercise.
And then, of course, when I went online to post a happy little "I finished a draft!" note, I found out that Shadow Unit 2x01 had been uploaded. Since I have been waiting for that for months, I of course had to go and read it right away.
Which means that at about 12:30 I finished reading "Lucky Day" and fell over from catharsis/emotional identification overload. So I went and ate a languid lunch, read some headlines from The Onion, and now am typing a LJ post. If possible, I will not do any more reading or writing today, of any sort more creative than changing the format of the citations in my history paper.
But I have a draft of a play, which is one more draft than I had when I woke up today, and I got to read Shadow Unit, and today is a beautiful day.
As for the YA SF stuff--thanks, everyone, for the responses; I've already picked up a couple of books from those comments. Soon, though not today, I will read them, and keep trying to write that story I was talking about.
