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Mar. 9th, 2007 11:18 amWhat goes around comes around of the day:
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[Vampire Hunters Drive Stake Through Milosevic's Heart]
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handworn. As he said, it was just too good not to pass on.
Odd bit of information of the day:
The word "startlement" is not in the Merriam-Webster Unabridged but it is in the OED. So I guess it's a word that exists in English, but not in Americanish.
Writingness of the day:
I so love it when my characters start talking in bad movie clichés. It makes me feel so special, especially after three plus two days of no writing. But on days when you're in a cash-in-my-chips-and-leave-the-game kind of mood, as I was yesterday, sometimes clichés are the best you can do. It's better than actually cashing in the chips, I guess. And there are rewrites. Also, after my blood sugar righted itself, my cash-in-the-chips mood went away. Sometimes you get to rewrite moods, too.
The other thing I love: when you're writing chapters that bore you, it's probably a safe bet they'll bore the readers, too. This isn't always a one-to-one correlation, but often is. If it takes me too long to get between points I get antsy—and in my first drafts that happens a lot. I spend chunks of time in rewrites cutting out the padding and reducing the clutter bridging one high point with the next. A story can't consist solely of high points and action-action-action. That gets boring too, and readers need a chance to catch their breath, but it's a delicate balancing act, parceling out the action and the breath-catchers.
I managed to do 1250 words yesterday at lunch (at last!). 250 of that had to be cut as being an unproductive tangent; another 250 turned out to be notes for events coming up in the next few chapters. That left me with a balance of 750 new and I'm-keeping-them words. Not great, but not bad. Still, as it's my only solid production for the week so far, I'm less than thrilled. But it couldn't be helped. Some weeks are just like that. (And I'm hoping to get more done today and on the weekend.)
Random quote of the day:
"Adults are just obsolete children, and the hell with them. You want to catch them before they become obsolete."
—Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2229686.html
[Vampire Hunters Drive Stake Through Milosevic's Heart]
Link stolen from
handworn. As he said, it was just too good not to pass on.Odd bit of information of the day:
The word "startlement" is not in the Merriam-Webster Unabridged but it is in the OED. So I guess it's a word that exists in English, but not in Americanish.
Writingness of the day:
I so love it when my characters start talking in bad movie clichés. It makes me feel so special, especially after three plus two days of no writing. But on days when you're in a cash-in-my-chips-and-leave-the-game kind of mood, as I was yesterday, sometimes clichés are the best you can do. It's better than actually cashing in the chips, I guess. And there are rewrites. Also, after my blood sugar righted itself, my cash-in-the-chips mood went away. Sometimes you get to rewrite moods, too.
The other thing I love: when you're writing chapters that bore you, it's probably a safe bet they'll bore the readers, too. This isn't always a one-to-one correlation, but often is. If it takes me too long to get between points I get antsy—and in my first drafts that happens a lot. I spend chunks of time in rewrites cutting out the padding and reducing the clutter bridging one high point with the next. A story can't consist solely of high points and action-action-action. That gets boring too, and readers need a chance to catch their breath, but it's a delicate balancing act, parceling out the action and the breath-catchers.
I managed to do 1250 words yesterday at lunch (at last!). 250 of that had to be cut as being an unproductive tangent; another 250 turned out to be notes for events coming up in the next few chapters. That left me with a balance of 750 new and I'm-keeping-them words. Not great, but not bad. Still, as it's my only solid production for the week so far, I'm less than thrilled. But it couldn't be helped. Some weeks are just like that. (And I'm hoping to get more done today and on the weekend.)
Random quote of the day:
"Adults are just obsolete children, and the hell with them. You want to catch them before they become obsolete."
—Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss)