Perchance to sleep
May. 5th, 2006 03:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonQuote of the day:
"There is no trifling with nature; it is always in the right."
—Johnn Wolfgang von Goethe
Writing talk of the day: You know what I hate (love)?
When you get an idea and you think, "Oh yeah, that'd be cool," but as time goes by and you write more of your novel you think, "Nah, can't think of a way to fit this in." So you cut it. Then you write more of your novel—maybe, perhaps, it's late in the game and you're just trying to finish the sucker up—and suddenly, there's that idea again. And you know how it works in now, and it's too good to pass up, so you put it back in, realizing you've got to rewrite passages further back to make it fit. But you say to yourself—because it is late in the game, "Rewrites, do that in the rewrites, and send a note with the chapter to your betas who are reading this chapter-by-chapter to explain why that idea is there. Do not rewrite now!" And for once you listen to yourself and push on?
That ever happen to you?
No, me neither. I don't know what I'm talking about.
In other news: I went back and looked at the poll where people helped me rename Night Warrior. (Because I don't have a—whatchacallit? Life?) A very close runner up to Born to Darkness was Of a Dark Moon Born. That has the attraction of not being a phrase from Anne Rice (that I'm aware of. Anybody?), plus it googles well (i.e., it googles not at all which, in terms of titles you want to name your thing, is a good google).
Asleep yet? I thought as much.
"There is no trifling with nature; it is always in the right."
—Johnn Wolfgang von Goethe
Writing talk of the day: You know what I hate (love)?
When you get an idea and you think, "Oh yeah, that'd be cool," but as time goes by and you write more of your novel you think, "Nah, can't think of a way to fit this in." So you cut it. Then you write more of your novel—maybe, perhaps, it's late in the game and you're just trying to finish the sucker up—and suddenly, there's that idea again. And you know how it works in now, and it's too good to pass up, so you put it back in, realizing you've got to rewrite passages further back to make it fit. But you say to yourself—because it is late in the game, "Rewrites, do that in the rewrites, and send a note with the chapter to your betas who are reading this chapter-by-chapter to explain why that idea is there. Do not rewrite now!" And for once you listen to yourself and push on?
That ever happen to you?
No, me neither. I don't know what I'm talking about.
In other news: I went back and looked at the poll where people helped me rename Night Warrior. (Because I don't have a—whatchacallit? Life?) A very close runner up to Born to Darkness was Of a Dark Moon Born. That has the attraction of not being a phrase from Anne Rice (that I'm aware of. Anybody?), plus it googles well (i.e., it googles not at all which, in terms of titles you want to name your thing, is a good google).
Asleep yet? I thought as much.
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Date: 2006-05-05 04:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-05 04:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-05 07:22 pm (UTC)Sincerely,
Brak, the Space Pirate
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Date: 2006-05-06 11:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-06 11:19 am (UTC)And yeah, i'm so in the know with that whole avoiding-instant-rewrites things.
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Date: 2006-05-06 11:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-09 01:45 pm (UTC)That's only because it took me that long to realize the first book stunk :-) Well, maybe not stunk, but could use some work.