I made a list of reasons why I write, here. [link] Because when I want to quit anything my mother always wants me to "make a list,"However, I think being an ex-writer is more like being Ex-gay than an ex-saleslady, but I made the list, anyway. But picture me looking down on my keyboard thinking "I wish I knew how to quit you,"
Travers: Perhaps you'll favor us with a demonstration while we're here. Buffy: You mean, like, right now? 'Cause, already had my recommended daily dose of fights tonight.
'Potential'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
erikaj - May 12, 2009 12:56:48 pm PDT #1559 of 6690
Always Anti-fascist!
Barb - May 12, 2009 1:08:37 pm PDT #1560 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
But picture me looking down on my keyboard thinking "I wish I knew how to quit you,"
You and me both, sister. You and me both.
Amy - May 12, 2009 1:19:13 pm PDT #1561 of 6690
Because books.
Barb, why don't you try writing something completely unlike what you usually do? Like, a different genre, or time period? Just to fool around, get the muscle working without attaching it to anything with any kind of expectations?
Try some fanfic, even. Just something you can have fun with.
Barb - May 12, 2009 2:10:32 pm PDT #1562 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
It's a sensible thought, Amy-- but then again, I'm not the most sensible sort. It's like I have the burning impulse to get back in the saddle-- I'm just not sure which saddle.
I am also rather suspicious that Carmen sucks.
(I know, I know... I'm just trying to piece it all back together from the unmitigated disaster it had become.)
Amy - May 12, 2009 2:17:11 pm PDT #1563 of 6690
Because books.
But I'm saying ... get in another saddle for a little while. Just for a change of scenery or whatever. Write, like, a personal essay or something. You know what I mean? Give your brain some time to relax and focus on something else.
Barb - May 12, 2009 2:19:54 pm PDT #1564 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
Give your brain some time to relax and focus on something else.
::SNORT::
Have you met my brain? I could climb in another saddle with all good intentions. Trying to distract myself, but there it would be... longingly looking at the other saddle... thinking, "I should be in that other saddle... I'm so weak, that I can't manage the other saddle..."
Yeah, I don't like living with my brain most days either.
SailAweigh - May 12, 2009 2:24:59 pm PDT #1565 of 6690
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
So get your snorkle mask and swim fins on, go swim with the sharks words. Screw the saddle.
Barb - May 12, 2009 5:06:41 pm PDT #1566 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
Sail skeers me.
So I wrote 1000 words.
SailAweigh - May 12, 2009 5:10:14 pm PDT #1567 of 6690
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Hee! Yay, Barb!
Gudanov - May 13, 2009 4:55:43 am PDT #1568 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
So I wrote 1000 words.
Is it something about sharks riding horses? Glad you got going.
I think I got in about 600 - 800 words last night. The first intimate scene came up last night and that slowed me down. Also in a place where I narrated a conversation, I decided to yank the narration and use dialog instead.
Hmmm... Should I use dialogue instead of dialog? I'm not sure if there what the different between the two words is. I do a fair amount of user interface programming so I'm used to typing dialog in the context of a "dialog box".