Where's Written? Hottie! I could do with that. I mean, I have nothing to write, but I could start.
'A Hole in the World'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
I still thinking semi-seriously of opening a Writing Dominatrix Muse service.
"Hands on the keyboard! SNAP! Don't edit -- just type, dammit. Oh, you like that, do you? Harder! Faster! Less adverbs! DO IT!"
I keep eyeballing Scrivener. Hmm.
bonny, bitching at people is pretty easy. Tact is (just not saying true stuff) hard.
Written?Kitten! is open-source; should be a simple enough matter to throw in some other photo feed...
Harder! Faster! Less adverbs! DO IT!"
...fewer!
Less adverbs!
Noooooo! I love my adverbs!
Okay, here's the deal I just made with myself. Tomorrow I record TWO shows. Tonight, I finish writing the notes for them. Part of this is due to stage fright, part of this is due to still feeling like crap, and I know that will affect my performance.
(If I show up in thread tomorrow, everyone feel free to poke me about doing the recording.)
Truth be told, I'm having a very frustrating block. I've been writing and rewriting the same first paragraph on this novel for five months now. I have this paragraph, one other scene, and a one sentence log line of the story. But I can't get past this paragraph. I don't know what comes next. I don't really know the full shape of the story.
Then today I come up with the opening paragraph of a new story, but beyond this paragraph, I have no idea what happens next.
It's like I keep having these "In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit," moments, but I can't get the rest to come.
With the first story, I try to write an outline, but that just ends up with me staring at a new blank document until I get tired of it and close it. I've been writing other things, like these monologues, but now I want to get back to these other story ideas.
Speaking of writing, Erin, I'm sending you a ton of raw material in a few minutes.
Sean, one thing that I do when I get that stuck (and Amy was the one who suggested this, so a HUGE thank-you to her) is to write story summaries like they're chapter descriptions for a penny dreadful serial or the dialog cards for a silent movie.
I thought to myself "Oh, a laptop, I'll be able to write anywhere!"
Nope.
I thought to myself "Oh, a room of my own, with my own desk, that will let me write!"
Nope.
If I'm not careful I'm going to think to myself "A whole continent, with just me and my computer! That'll help me write." I should probably find more effective writing motivators, because we don't have space travel yet to get me my own planet.
Sean, one thing that I do when I get that stuck (and Amy was the one who suggested this, so a HUGE thank-you to her) is to write story summaries like they're chapter descriptions for a penny dreadful serial or the dialog cards for a silent movie.
OMG that's perfect! I'll make a penny dreadful chapter list. I think that's just what I need to do.