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 Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:00 pm
I'm ******** up with introductions. o_O
I've been attempting to write seriously since last summer, when I swore I'd finish a sci-fi project concerning a boy and his multiple personalities over the summer.
From that time to this moment, the idea was ditched for my newfound love of roleplaying and Gaiaonline. I found my first unimaginary love in Gaia Towns. I thought up several other ideas which were also subsequently canned. I started up a roleplay that would eventually spawn into becoming my most succesful writing project to date, and from there I started bellydancing, lost a best friend, lost the boyfriend (Who discovered he was gay, and thus we remained best friends) gained the best friend back and wrote 23 chapters of my first succesful book idea.
I'm also a tall, have feet larger than I would like, am 17 and have a big fat kitty named Eli.
For my renewed interest in writing, I have to thank my once-boyfriend now gay-best-friend Steven Paul (I Ejaculate Rainbows). If it wasn't for him I never would have started writing again, nor would I have kept up with my stories.
I have been working on my main project since the beginning of my Junior year. Right now, it has the temporary title "Eight Legg." All of the chapters, (along with my short-stories 3nodding ) are uploaded on my DeviantArt account, where I never get decent critiques, but I do get a few grateful fans who I lurve. ^_^
As a warning, I blow walrus peckers when it concerns transitions, writing discipline, last names and planning. To solve one of them, I enjoy cherry-picking the last names off of gravestones whenever I pass by a boneyard.
Hell yes, I'm that hardcore.
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:04 pm
Wow, you sound like an awesome person. I can relate to the whole boyfriend gone gay thing. Every guy I date seems to turn gay.
I've found I can't stop writing when I start and it's a good escape route. You never know what kinda things come out of it.
Maybe I ought to try those gravestones for names...
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DesertRoseFallen Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:07 pm
We're best friends, now. ^_^ So it all worked out fine.
Right now, I have more trouble with, "Getting off the ******** comp and writing anything whatsoever."
Thanfully, I'm trying to discipline myself.
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:09 pm
I have so many things to do on here I get distracted easily. Like right now I should be writing... ninja
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DesertRoseFallen Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 7:00 pm
Good luck with the motivation there. And uh.. why not use the computer to write with?
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:40 am
Because after some experimenting, I've found I can't write well straight from the computer. I do better when I hand write the story first.
Now that I look back, that sentence does seem really dumb. ^_^
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 6:50 pm
Some people just feel more motivated when they write by hand. I, however, can't do it. I simply can't. I write too slow by hand, and my handwriting sucks.
But anyway, Gaia can be pretty distracting, and it absolutely takes time away from writing, which is why I write when I first get up and tell myself that hopping online is a treat because I'll sit and write for three hours first. ^.^
It's all about time management and discipline.
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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 9:07 pm
Journal Update: Wednesday, Aug 6th, 11:45 PM
So I hauled myself away from "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" and wrote for about a straight two hours in Eight Legg. I wrote at my desk this time instead of my bed, and there was definite improvement in my word:time ratio. I suppose after tonight it'll be about time to update the next chapter of Eight Legg. This damn piece has been revised and cut so many times, I think all of my transitions have been ******** up beyond repair. Most likely I'll have to do some serious smoothing out on Word tomorrow, after I get home from babysitting.
Several things have bothered me about Eight Legg, and one of the main biggies is the amount of attention I pay to the past and the present (and in some cases, the future.) The reason for this is that many signifigent things happened to my main characters that seriously warped, or helped morph the character in who they are in the present. In my head, this makes the past just as important, and I'm trying to get across past events while portraying what's going on in the present. Sometimes I worry that this makes the book too "busy" so to speak. More than likely though, I'm just not learned enough in being efficient with the past:present ratio to keep the writing flow from being jumbled. It'll be easier to fix and point out when I get it the whole project typed up on Word, which is what I'm hoping will be the case.
Now that I look back at what I've written, I've sighted several aspects in this project that could be standalone stories. For example, several times I go back in the past with my female lead to demonstrate certain visits with her therapist. With all of the time and events that it took to get her there, I realize it could be explored in a whole different book, with different characters, if I could think them up. Since I absolutely will not make this project a series, I feel the need to write about those events in bulk.
The good thing to all of these, is that it'll be so much easier to figure out after the rough draft is completed and typed up all nice and neat, with some brain rest thrown in. That keeps me going just fine. And if I keep up with this discipline, this project will be completed in a month or two.
I think I'll wake up early before I have to get to babysitting, so I can sit down and write at least a page. It's difficult to write when you're trying to keep a crazy beagle from stealing an autistic six year old's peanut butter sandwich.
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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 9:26 pm
It's difficult to write when you're trying to keep a crazy beagle from stealing an autistic six year old's peanut butter sandwich.
I think I see where your inspiration comes from. Goodness!
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Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 6:48 pm
Journal Update: August 9, 8:27 PMSo, I had a productive day. I tried to complete a bit of Eight Legg, but the b***h is holding out.
So instead, I finished a short story I began sometime in June. I let it rest so I could work on Eight Legg, but now I decided it was time to tie up the end and type it up. Most of it was inspired by William Faulkner's, "A Rose For Emily" which is generally about a nutty old lady who killed her lover and slept with the corpse till she died. For this short story, I built the entire plot over the last line, which I thought up first for it-
"The cat, of course, was never suspected."
Girth-wise, the finished project was about three and a half pages, 1,900 words. I considered titling it "The Angora" but that would no doubt ruin the shock I'm attempting to get across with the last line. For now, it's titled "The Peculiar Events of Manor Pullinbrook" and I'm waiting for my parents to give it a read. They want me to collect my stories so they can show them off at my graduation party this year. A little embarrassing, but I'm glad they take an interest. Plus, it gives me some initiative to type them up and edit instead of letting them ferment in my notebook.
After I clean up and edit The Peculiar Events, I'm considering sending it into Gargoyle literary magazine, or Vulcan. The sites kicks a**, and I'd love to have a work accepted there. In which case, I won't post it up on my DeviantArt, just in case.
And for the curious, here is my DeviantArt. ^_^http://candledance.deviantart.com/
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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:25 pm
Journal Update: August 26, 11:20 PM
Holy celebrations! I have paid for and turned in my Freshman application to Ohio University! Now all I need to do is send in my transcript and wait for my teachers to finish the letters of recommendation and get my counselor to sign a sheet. Then all three of those objects will be mailed off to Athens all postaged and pretty.
The rewrite of Eight Legg has officially begun, with a bit more attention to one of the character's Great Aunt and Great Grandmother. Hopefully, with a nicer, more solid plot, this version will be better than the last.
I'll post up some better info on the story when I have some free time this week. My high school senior year has begun. I'm also writing articles for our small town newspaper, which will ultimately be satisfying.
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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 1:44 am
Wow. You are doing really good for yourself. I wish I did more with my writing.
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DesertRoseFallen Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 7:52 pm
That is QUITE a roll you're on there! I think you have a very bright and happy year coming up ^^.
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:43 pm
Journal Update: October 19, 9:37 PM
I GOT INTO OHIO ******** yes.
Got a bit more productive. Wrote a one-act play for the Drama Club Winter One Acts. I'll be casting and directing all by myself this year.
Eight Legg overhauled again, and I'm trying to get the whole first draft done by Christmas.
I'm wanting to try out some Splatterpunk and Burlesque humor. Got halfway through with my first Burlseque attempt- it's sitting now. A script meant to performed on a theatre stage, centering around two scanty females in a parody of the presidential debates.
Swimteam's starting up again, and as my last year I'm gonna try to enjoy it. It helps that I'll be wonderfully buff by the end of Febuary.
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