Go ahead—twirl!
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pjthompsonQuote of the day:
"You can only predict things after they have happened."
—Eugene Ionesco
Writing palaver of the day:
Yesterday was a good writing day, a real good writing day. I didn't get much actual writing done, maybe a page, but it loomed large anyway. You see, I resolved a plot issue that had been haunting me for weeks (a separate issue from the plotting-by-stupidity one and a much larger hole in the ground). The really good writing day part is that I didn't just come up with a patch that got me through the first draft and would have to be completely restitched in later drafts. I actually came up with something that worked and had resonance with what came before. And I did it by finally letting go of my worry and telling myself, "This is only a first draft. You're allowed to suck in first drafts. You have the luxury of rewrites." Giving myself that permission freed something up in the ol' whim-wham machine of my brain.
Now, writing friends of mine had been telling me not to sweat the first draft—and having been down this novel writing road a few times before I knew they were correct—but I wasn't really taking it to heart. It floated in the intellectual soup, but I didn't internalize it until I'd thoroughly beaten myself up about it first. *sigh* I wish I wasn't such a masochist about these things, but I am and such is life.
And I am so close to finishing the 1968 timeline. There's still a chunk to go in the 6th century and 1976, but I'm making good progress there, too. It'll be interesting to see if I write faster now that I've fixed the grande plot problem. I'm not placing any bets, mind you, but we'll see.
Today's session was fruitful, though. Even though my villains twirled their moustaches so hard they ripped them off, grew new ones, and started twirling those, too—all that is infinitely fixable. In Draft the Second.
"You can only predict things after they have happened."
—Eugene Ionesco
Writing palaver of the day:
Yesterday was a good writing day, a real good writing day. I didn't get much actual writing done, maybe a page, but it loomed large anyway. You see, I resolved a plot issue that had been haunting me for weeks (a separate issue from the plotting-by-stupidity one and a much larger hole in the ground). The really good writing day part is that I didn't just come up with a patch that got me through the first draft and would have to be completely restitched in later drafts. I actually came up with something that worked and had resonance with what came before. And I did it by finally letting go of my worry and telling myself, "This is only a first draft. You're allowed to suck in first drafts. You have the luxury of rewrites." Giving myself that permission freed something up in the ol' whim-wham machine of my brain.
Now, writing friends of mine had been telling me not to sweat the first draft—and having been down this novel writing road a few times before I knew they were correct—but I wasn't really taking it to heart. It floated in the intellectual soup, but I didn't internalize it until I'd thoroughly beaten myself up about it first. *sigh* I wish I wasn't such a masochist about these things, but I am and such is life.
And I am so close to finishing the 1968 timeline. There's still a chunk to go in the 6th century and 1976, but I'm making good progress there, too. It'll be interesting to see if I write faster now that I've fixed the grande plot problem. I'm not placing any bets, mind you, but we'll see.
Today's session was fruitful, though. Even though my villains twirled their moustaches so hard they ripped them off, grew new ones, and started twirling those, too—all that is infinitely fixable. In Draft the Second.
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Date: 2006-02-17 09:28 am (UTC)And I'm like you--I need to print everything out. Well, I finally stopped printing out the OWW stuff, but anything longer than a chapter or a short story...
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