July 2011
0 posts
11...and news.
I’m on page eleven of my play experiment. It’s pretty much a conversation between two people, mixed and mashed up through the years. I’m trying to just write as true to my voice as possible, not conforming to aspects of story, or anything I don’t like. I’ve tried to just put together aspects of comedy, drama, pop culture obsession, dreams and failure. Generally...
June 2011
7 posts
Drafts
I wrote four pages of something I’m actually proud of tonight. I think it’s a play. I can’t share it yet, or it’ll dampen my enthusiasm, and I’ll break the only streak I’ve had all summer. I invented a couple of phrases/colloquialisms that don’t sound stupid in my head.
The other day I started a draft of an email explaining exactly how embarrassed I...
Rewriting
So, I find it really hard to rewrite and revise my work. I have to make a better effort at it. Because I just see a mountain of work in front of me, a mountain of papers and problems, and I don’t want to face it. So I don’t do it, even when I know it’s better for me. I just feel like I’ve done a lot of work already, so much work, putting all those words down in the...
Summertime
Hey, it’s June 21st, the summer solstice, the first day of summer, the longest day of the year. Cool. Today I watched 4 and a half episodes of Men of a Certain Age (I liked it) and then worked from 1-9. I desperately was looking forward to going on a run after work. I had all this pent up energy all bottled up. My own laziness and sheer static lifestyle has gotten me all worked up. But...
It's Technically Tuesday
So maybs I’ll do a serial story, cause I’m tired, and I’ve started a story I may continue tomorrow. Here it is, partly inspired by a line in Fire by Kristen Cashore that I wrote down a while ago, here it is, the poorly written fantasy beginning of a story:
“It’s common knowledge that the young Bellark’s setting out tomorrow. Her dowry along with her.” The young man...
Making an Effort...
So, I’ve sorely neglected this blog. Not that anyone reads it (and the master in self-pitying self-deprecation returns, greeted with a whoosh of applause). And now I’m making an effort.
In my absence I have been working at the library, getting myself back in the groove of sleep, wake up, eat, watch television/read, go to work, eat, go back to work, go back home, read/watch...
YA Saves
Today my thoughts are bigger than twitter. Yeah, I’m sorry for the neglect. I’ve been thinking on stories, I submitted one to a contest on Figment, woo-hoo. Yeah, I’ve been trying to write a tiny bit of high fantasy. I’m going to try it out on another story inspired by a line in Kristin Cashore’s Fire, one of my favorite books. I also started writing a spec...
