A soldier in the puny war
Dec. 12th, 2006 12:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonWritingness of the day:
I hit 100 pages, 25k on Charged with Folly yesterday. Doesn't seem nearly as much as I'd wanted to have done in two months, but it's what I've got. It's been difficult getting writing done the last couple of weeks—lots of interruptions of my regular time slot—but I still managed to squeeze in another chapter. Which means I'll probably be posting it on OWW in the next couple of days. As to picking up the pace on the writing, I'd like to think it will happen, but it probably won't, especially this time of year. Presents or no presents, the holidays eat up a lot of time.
I was also complaining to a friend that I'm not in love with this novel like I've been in love in the past. I'm liking it, liking how the story is developing, I'm committed to writing it, but I'm not enamored of it. I never got that honeymoon feeling that I always have at the beginning of a novel (until reality sets in and I begin to see it sucks about as much as anything else). This one has been more of a slugfest. Maybe that's a good thing. It'll cut down on the unrealistic expectations and make this more of a "working writer" experience.
My friend asked me if I thought I'd reach a point where that feeling of struggle might ease up—and, actually, I do. Right now I'm trying to balance the adventure/action parts of the story with the worldbuilding parts, and struggling not to do the infodump thing, and that's never fun. I mean, the imaginative parts are, letting myself cut loose. But getting it all to balance and flow, that's work. I do believe that fairly soon I'll be hitting parts of the story where I'm not having to do that kind of balancing act because I've established the world enough that I can just let the characters interact and do their damnedest. It might get more fun then.
In the meantime, I soldier on.
Random quotes of the day:
"There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles."
—Frank Herbert, Dune
"[The asylum] was a lovely setting, unindicative of the mental anguish and dysfunction it sheltered—much like many individuals one meets in the course of a day."
—Jeffrey Ford, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque
Disclaimer for the Quote of the Day:
These quotes do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, The Universe or its subsidiaries, Leonard Maltin, Siegfried and Roy, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. However, they frequently reflect the views of the Cottingsley Fairies.
I hit 100 pages, 25k on Charged with Folly yesterday. Doesn't seem nearly as much as I'd wanted to have done in two months, but it's what I've got. It's been difficult getting writing done the last couple of weeks—lots of interruptions of my regular time slot—but I still managed to squeeze in another chapter. Which means I'll probably be posting it on OWW in the next couple of days. As to picking up the pace on the writing, I'd like to think it will happen, but it probably won't, especially this time of year. Presents or no presents, the holidays eat up a lot of time.
I was also complaining to a friend that I'm not in love with this novel like I've been in love in the past. I'm liking it, liking how the story is developing, I'm committed to writing it, but I'm not enamored of it. I never got that honeymoon feeling that I always have at the beginning of a novel (until reality sets in and I begin to see it sucks about as much as anything else). This one has been more of a slugfest. Maybe that's a good thing. It'll cut down on the unrealistic expectations and make this more of a "working writer" experience.
My friend asked me if I thought I'd reach a point where that feeling of struggle might ease up—and, actually, I do. Right now I'm trying to balance the adventure/action parts of the story with the worldbuilding parts, and struggling not to do the infodump thing, and that's never fun. I mean, the imaginative parts are, letting myself cut loose. But getting it all to balance and flow, that's work. I do believe that fairly soon I'll be hitting parts of the story where I'm not having to do that kind of balancing act because I've established the world enough that I can just let the characters interact and do their damnedest. It might get more fun then.
In the meantime, I soldier on.
Random quotes of the day:
"There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles."
—Frank Herbert, Dune
"[The asylum] was a lovely setting, unindicative of the mental anguish and dysfunction it sheltered—much like many individuals one meets in the course of a day."
—Jeffrey Ford, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque
Disclaimer for the Quote of the Day:
These quotes do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, The Universe or its subsidiaries, Leonard Maltin, Siegfried and Roy, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. However, they frequently reflect the views of the Cottingsley Fairies.