See posts about writing and generators/prompts etc.: want to write again, possibly for several days at a time.
Realise you're rubbish at plot and/or it would possibly be a waste of time you could be working in: cry.
(On the other hand, there may be no other way to get me that ideal werewolf story that I'm after).
I've said it before: I love writing, and I miss it when I'm not doing it. I haven't written anything "solid" for well over a year. I've got some characters, but no idea what to do with them. I love the ability to create worlds and people and stories and share them with people (though some of my stories have been incredibly mundane - the longest ones certainly are. I'd actually really like to set a story in a fantasy world, or one that's a few degrees left of normal).
Of course, NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow, doesn't it? So that's another reason to think about writing (although I'm long past the, "Oooh, I might do this!" and then realise that I can't hack hitting even feasible word counts. And I'm not even tempted for it to be NaNoFiMo, either, as I actually have no desire to finish anything that's on my hard drive right now. NONE AT ALL. The World's Most Condescending Kids' Story, though? Maybe*).
I have just checked![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ursulav's journal and, of course, she is talking about the stories she's going to finish this year. She's also said that she has no idea of how to write plot and that makes me feel better. She is a published author! Comments also inform me that David Eddings would not know a plot if it jumped up and bit him, but I wouldn't know, since I've never read any of his books. But that makes me feel better, too.
(I can also, uncharitably, think of authors I have read who have no notion of what a plot is, either, but in their case it's a glaring flaw. Also, draw your own conclusions since, as always, your mileage may vary).
MAYBE. I should spend all day tomorrow messing about with idea/name generators and so on. I mean, The World's Most Condescending Kids' Story** came about from me having an idea and then throwing things I liked at it, so MAYBE. MAYBE IF I HOPE HARD ENOUGH AND BELIEVE IN FAIRIES, I might come up with some things to play with tomorrow?
(I can always catch up on work over the weekend anyway).
...Hmmm. I think there is a plan here!
~*~
*That's the only one on the go not on my hard drive. It's in a notebook, as I started writing it when I was commuting to Halifax and back. Well, I say "on the go" - it's technically not dead, and keeps prodding me occasionally, but I haven't written any of it in about a year or so.
**I would post some of it, but that the tone is horrible. Really. It needs at least one severe rewrite before ANYONE gets to see it. But that was part of the thing, to write, no matter how it sounded, and just get the gist of the idea down, and figure out the rest later.
Realise you're rubbish at plot and/or it would possibly be a waste of time you could be working in: cry.
(On the other hand, there may be no other way to get me that ideal werewolf story that I'm after).
I've said it before: I love writing, and I miss it when I'm not doing it. I haven't written anything "solid" for well over a year. I've got some characters, but no idea what to do with them. I love the ability to create worlds and people and stories and share them with people (though some of my stories have been incredibly mundane - the longest ones certainly are. I'd actually really like to set a story in a fantasy world, or one that's a few degrees left of normal).
Of course, NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow, doesn't it? So that's another reason to think about writing (although I'm long past the, "Oooh, I might do this!" and then realise that I can't hack hitting even feasible word counts. And I'm not even tempted for it to be NaNoFiMo, either, as I actually have no desire to finish anything that's on my hard drive right now. NONE AT ALL. The World's Most Condescending Kids' Story, though? Maybe*).
I have just checked
ursulav's journal and, of course, she is talking about the stories she's going to finish this year. She's also said that she has no idea of how to write plot and that makes me feel better. She is a published author! Comments also inform me that David Eddings would not know a plot if it jumped up and bit him, but I wouldn't know, since I've never read any of his books. But that makes me feel better, too.(I can also, uncharitably, think of authors I have read who have no notion of what a plot is, either, but in their case it's a glaring flaw. Also, draw your own conclusions since, as always, your mileage may vary).
MAYBE. I should spend all day tomorrow messing about with idea/name generators and so on. I mean, The World's Most Condescending Kids' Story** came about from me having an idea and then throwing things I liked at it, so MAYBE. MAYBE IF I HOPE HARD ENOUGH AND BELIEVE IN FAIRIES, I might come up with some things to play with tomorrow?
(I can always catch up on work over the weekend anyway).
...Hmmm. I think there is a plan here!
~*~
*That's the only one on the go not on my hard drive. It's in a notebook, as I started writing it when I was commuting to Halifax and back. Well, I say "on the go" - it's technically not dead, and keeps prodding me occasionally, but I haven't written any of it in about a year or so.
**I would post some of it, but that the tone is horrible. Really. It needs at least one severe rewrite before ANYONE gets to see it. But that was part of the thing, to write, no matter how it sounded, and just get the gist of the idea down, and figure out the rest later.
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