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we skipped the light fandango
I had all these plans for what I was going to do with my ~two weeks off work over Xmas and New Year. So many plans! Find books! Visit friends! Read books! (not necessarily the ones I'd found, either). Do writing! Draw a lot!
I woke up one morning with a sore throat, and it just went downhill from there. I'm getting better now, but I'm still not one hundred percent. I don't feel like I've the energy to shift books, and I still don't want to visit friends in case I'm still infectious. I've done a little bit of writing, but it feels like ages ago now. I've been drawing a little bit more in recent days, although I'm still in the frame of mind where, if I switch the computer on, it becomes an instant distraction, because I don't really have to think about the things I'm reading/looking at on there.
I also haven't finished The Last Remnant because my eyes have been super sore/trying to concentrate on anything's been horrendous. Also I'm annoyed that, at BR 71, ordinary monsters are so easy to knock out it's stupid, and yet the bunch of bosses I'm working through (I'm at The Seven) are at the far end of a difficulty spike (so it seems, anyway. I might do better once I'm not ill?)
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Reading some of Maggie Stiefvater's old writing (because occasionally she posts some) got me thinking about my old writing. Although let's be fair, I've been thinking about teenage!me writing for a few months now because a) all these people whose stories are based on stuff they thought of as teens and b) Star Wars. I wrote THE lamest SW fanfic when I was sixteen. Parts of it were more or less a rip-off from the Thrawn Trilogy. Honestly. I'm fairly certain it ended its days in the bin because, even then, I could see what a steaming pile of tripe it was.
I'm going to dig out my old writing when I feel better and see what there is. I know there's some missing stuff. There's the lame-arse TOTALLY NOT a sequel to Labyrinth, which I believe got ripped up and thrown in the bin. There's the story about the boarding school*, which probably went the same way. There's the story about the...actually I don't know what it's about. Teenagers. It starts at a party, and that's all I can remember. I think that all went in the bin, so we'll never know what it was about, I guess! There's also the fic about the one hospital drama I used to watch which, if any of it still exists I'll be surprised. Though I was fifteen when I wrote that, so who knows. I'd started retaining stuff by then, no matter how awful it was/wasn't.
I kind of want to see if any of the ideas poke my brain, still (I doubt it, but I'll never know if I don't try). I mean, there's ideas I came up with ten years ago that I still think about and maybe will finish one day (not the vampire romance though because ugh. Though I may rip out the basic idea and use it because I know what the final scene is and I like the mental image I have of it).
Actually now I wonder what happened to the story that was a rip-off of LotR...I know I wrote a fair bit for it, but I doubt I kept the notebook.
Or maybe I should just take what I can remember of any of these ideas and write them from the ground up, as I saw in some recent writing advice (though that allowed the original article to be present. I suppose this was so you could at least refer to the original outline. IDK). That could be an interesting exercise anyway, to see how things may change now I'm older. Hmm. I'm going to have to dig out another notebook now.
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I got fed up with my hair - I'd been trying to grow it out - so I chopped most of it off. So now it's super short, which it hasn't been for years now, and it feels weird.
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*I spent one summer reading the entirety of Malory Towers (not difficult, I know), but I loved them. Also this was WAY before Harry Potter, and Enid Blyton was all I had. I think I was about thirteen at the time. I could've been younger, I don't know now.
**The Phantom Menace obviously didn't come out till 1999, but for some reason there was a really long lead in re: hyping? And my boyfriend at the time was big into them, so no doubt that was a factor.
I woke up one morning with a sore throat, and it just went downhill from there. I'm getting better now, but I'm still not one hundred percent. I don't feel like I've the energy to shift books, and I still don't want to visit friends in case I'm still infectious. I've done a little bit of writing, but it feels like ages ago now. I've been drawing a little bit more in recent days, although I'm still in the frame of mind where, if I switch the computer on, it becomes an instant distraction, because I don't really have to think about the things I'm reading/looking at on there.
I also haven't finished The Last Remnant because my eyes have been super sore/trying to concentrate on anything's been horrendous. Also I'm annoyed that, at BR 71, ordinary monsters are so easy to knock out it's stupid, and yet the bunch of bosses I'm working through (I'm at The Seven) are at the far end of a difficulty spike (so it seems, anyway. I might do better once I'm not ill?)
~
Reading some of Maggie Stiefvater's old writing (because occasionally she posts some) got me thinking about my old writing. Although let's be fair, I've been thinking about teenage!me writing for a few months now because a) all these people whose stories are based on stuff they thought of as teens and b) Star Wars. I wrote THE lamest SW fanfic when I was sixteen. Parts of it were more or less a rip-off from the Thrawn Trilogy. Honestly. I'm fairly certain it ended its days in the bin because, even then, I could see what a steaming pile of tripe it was.
I'm going to dig out my old writing when I feel better and see what there is. I know there's some missing stuff. There's the lame-arse TOTALLY NOT a sequel to Labyrinth, which I believe got ripped up and thrown in the bin. There's the story about the boarding school*, which probably went the same way. There's the story about the...actually I don't know what it's about. Teenagers. It starts at a party, and that's all I can remember. I think that all went in the bin, so we'll never know what it was about, I guess! There's also the fic about the one hospital drama I used to watch which, if any of it still exists I'll be surprised. Though I was fifteen when I wrote that, so who knows. I'd started retaining stuff by then, no matter how awful it was/wasn't.
I kind of want to see if any of the ideas poke my brain, still (I doubt it, but I'll never know if I don't try). I mean, there's ideas I came up with ten years ago that I still think about and maybe will finish one day (not the vampire romance though because ugh. Though I may rip out the basic idea and use it because I know what the final scene is and I like the mental image I have of it).
Actually now I wonder what happened to the story that was a rip-off of LotR...I know I wrote a fair bit for it, but I doubt I kept the notebook.
Or maybe I should just take what I can remember of any of these ideas and write them from the ground up, as I saw in some recent writing advice (though that allowed the original article to be present. I suppose this was so you could at least refer to the original outline. IDK). That could be an interesting exercise anyway, to see how things may change now I'm older. Hmm. I'm going to have to dig out another notebook now.
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I got fed up with my hair - I'd been trying to grow it out - so I chopped most of it off. So now it's super short, which it hasn't been for years now, and it feels weird.
~
*I spent one summer reading the entirety of Malory Towers (not difficult, I know), but I loved them. Also this was WAY before Harry Potter, and Enid Blyton was all I had. I think I was about thirteen at the time. I could've been younger, I don't know now.
**The Phantom Menace obviously didn't come out till 1999, but for some reason there was a really long lead in re: hyping? And my boyfriend at the time was big into them, so no doubt that was a factor.
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A question: Do you recommend Maggie Stiefvater's "Raven Cycle" books? I searched her name on my library's catalog just now, and the summary sounds interesting. It's been a while since I've read any YA fiction, too.
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YES READ THEM! If you find the beginning of The Raven Boys a bit hard going, keep going, because I wasn't so keen on it, but somewhere around page 100, something changed and suddenly it was like I was reading a different book. I hope the summary's not the one on the book, which makes it sound like they're a teenage romance series because that is SO NOT what they are. (I mean, there is romance in there, but it's not the point of the story).