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 Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 7:28 pm
Thanks Min! I'm glad you like my writing! It's always helpful to get a review from someone not my family or immediate friends (the ones that I can physically touch).
The anger thing, I'm over it. Really, that quick, over it. Of course, that particular "friend" of mine wont be getting the perks of my friendship any more, but I've calmed down quite a bit.
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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 7:32 pm
Nice going with the word count there!! I hope you are successful with dealing with whatever issues life throws at you. Trust me. I know the feeling. My life has been an emotional rollercoaster for the last 2 and a half years. But it made me a better writer. Actually it made me know that I wanted to be a writer!
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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 7:42 pm
Thanks Chibi. I have faith that it will all sort itself out. I tend to use writing as a way to help me deal with anger issues.
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:47 am
I know the feeling.
I love my emotions and how they fuel me to write even more and better. I guess we have to deal with these things and turn them into something good and worthwhile.
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DesertRoseFallen Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:04 pm
6/23/08
Monday - Hours of planning and editing in the near future...
Even more after my schedule becomes more steady at work. I spoke with the guy in charge of our schedules and informed him that my currently erratic days were taking their toll on me. I've got no energy to do anything by the time I get home. I refuse to give up my Friday night club trip, but I haven't been finding that as entertaining either due to my lack of energy.
The biggest issue: I haven't been able to come up with a definite writing schedule because I never know when I'm working. It's difficult and tiring. Plus with the surplus of ideas I've been having I need my writing time!
On a side note, I've got a new short story (the anger provoked one) posted here for all to read and review. I'd appreciate some input from people here as well.
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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:03 am
6/26/08
Thursday - Gah! Make it stop!
I've mentioned those three books that I randomly came up with about a week or so ago. Now I have an idea for a completely different short story. Why can't my mind focus on one?
So, the short story, I'm thinking, would be about a possessed musical instrument--violin to be exact--that falls into the hands of a witch. I'm not talking someone like Glinda the good witch or what-not. I'm talking your normal, everyday, could-pass-for-anyone witch.
How'd this idea come to me? I picked up a violin out of a pile of free stuff on the side of the road last night. It's beaten up, missing a string, and I have absolutely no idea how to play it. I was just thinking how interesting it would be if there was something else attached to such an old instrument and voila!
Again I ask, why can't my mind stay focused on one idea for longer than a week?
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P a r a d i s e Garden Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:34 am
I hate it when that happens xp
I always try to do my best to combined Ideas if i can--but that never works
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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:08 pm
reading all this almost makes me question myself. I don't really get a lot of different story ideas these days but I feel that there was a time in my life that I did. Not that I can really say when that time was . . . maybe it's just a figment of my imagination.
But just be glad that you have inspiration. I understand that life can get hectic--I've been quite busy myself in the last few weeks, but that's just life. Take it and savor it. Also, don't be afraid to give yourself time to write. If a story is worthwhile it can handle being put on the back-burner for a week or two. I do find, however, that if I spend too much time fleshing out my stories in ways that aren't applicable to a word-count then I don't feel the same desire to write it all down. It's as if I'm emotionally over the story because I already know what it is.
And I too am all about female-empowerment. I'm a little more towards the who-needs-a-man-anyway mentality, though, and that doesn't work particularly well for romance
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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:26 am
P a r a d i s e Garden: I'd combine ideas if I could, but the demon series and this short story idea just wouldn't mesh well. *Pauses, contemplates.* However, there is a potential that I may be able to work something similar to this idea in with another story I am writing.
Did I ever mention how much I love the people are here?
Lycaon_Saer: I wouldn't worry about your lack of inspiration at the moment. I went through almost four years of it. It's only really been the last six months that I can't get the flow of inspiration to slow down at all.
I'm not so much planning the plot and what-not, but the society that the story revolves around. I need to figure out how they operate so that their actions as a society as a whole make sense and it doesn't sound like a bunch of dribble. For instance, I had to figure out how the "leadership" role passes down to others if something happens to the current leaders. I know now that it goes by the eldest female of the society (also making the eldest of them all, a male, very angry and bitter). I also had to figure out how they keep tabs on each other when they live so spaced out. Sure, they can now use cell phones and what-not, but that doesn't help when one is being "bad" and needs to be dealt with by there justice system.
Gah! Rambling, sorry. Anyway, one of my characters actually has the who-needs-a-man mentality, but can't seem to turn away from the guy she ends up falling for. It's that whole pheromone thing.
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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:54 am
Oh my god I love it.
I love it when a female doesn't want a man and ends up falling for him anyway. I don't know why but I think it's sweeter that way.
And plus it gives that reluctant lover idea.
Im a who-needs-a-man kinda girl too. xD
To be honest, im the happiest out of my friends and they just get problems with guys and none of them are worth it. I would rather keep my fictional men, they seem to be better.
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DesertRoseFallen Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 4:19 pm
One of the easiest ways to introduce a society:
-Have most of the characters be members of it
-Have them go about their societal business with only the barest explanation
-Add character who is NOT a member and have them screw up constantly and have to be talked through things.
A lot of people do that, yes, but it's mostly how you pull off that particular scenario.
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Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 11:42 pm
Good luck figuring that all out, Irin.
Ima boys-are-so-STUPID girl.
Seriously, at my age, there is no such thing as a man. Just idiots, suicidal idiots who try to kill themselves becaus eyou break up with them...
Yeah, I'm not planning to date. EVAR.
Well, maybe not evar, but I think y'all get the point.
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Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 9:09 am
DesertRoseFallen: Reluctant lover is exactly where the story is going to be heading. Add on the fact that she is going to be the first to fall for a guy in a few hundred years and she is extremely reluctant.
saint_savin: The first book the reader is only going to be getting a taste for the justice portion of the society. In the second book the reader will get more of a feel for the society because the main characters are an inquisitive mortal scholar and the society's record keeper.
Hm, so I suppose I can work on the society more after writing the first book then.
Lt Oblivious: To quote Happy Bunny, "I love boys. They're so dumb." I understand what you mean by not dating at the moment. Trust me, some boys never grow out of the omg-you-dumped-me-now-I'm-going-to-kill-myself phase. *Staring at a picture of her most recent ex that checked himself into a hospital because of "how bad" he got.*
6/30/08
Monday - Hot days do not equal good writing weather.
It's more than just hot days. It's muggy and sticky. It's all day and all night. It's just not conducive to writing when you've got a migraine from the insane weather. Sometimes I really hate living in Massachusetts. Spring and Fall are fantastic, but Winter and Summer make me wonder why I stick around.
That short story about the possessed violin is getting put on the back burner. I just need to jot down the idea so I wont forget it in the future. I'm going to be focusing on Jada, Gina (need a new name for her because all the alliteration is driving me nuts), and the Syrinx society.
Anyway, I'm off to go sweat buckets and ponder why I remain in this horrid place.
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Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:27 am
That sounds like a good idea. Justice systems tend to be a whole other platter of sushi- very specific and particular. Unless they're so simplistic as to be naturally unjust and no one wants to read that...
Anyway!
*WILLS DELICIOUS COOL DRINKS YOUR WAY*
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Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:08 am
Oh, gawd. That kind of heat sounds horrible. I'm sorry. So, why are you staying there? Move somewhere cool! Like Alaska!
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