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 Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 1:53 am
I hope I'm posting this in the right place. e.e
Anyways, this thread is about the challenges of the challenge.
What prompts were easy-peasey for you, which ones weren't. How the challenge is helping you, how you try to go about writing for a prompt, what's your plan, what's your mother's plan, how you're staying with the challenge--basically ,anything pertaining to the challenge.
I'll start off with I didn't even know what "Gilding a Lily" meant...
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Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 8:53 pm
I didn't know what "gilding a lily" meant, either. XD I looked it up but decided to go with my original idea, anyway.
The challenge is helping me most by giving me ego boost. I spend so much time nitpicking on my main project that it's nice to just cough up some bits of prose.
As for hard and easy moments...
Childhood Memories gave me hell. My own memories are dull as dog snot, and I'd recently written things regarding some characters' childhoods, so I think I was memoried out.
Money also irritated me. There was just too much to say, too many angles to take, but I didn't feel particularly inspired about any of them, so I tried to write something about my richest-ever character and a guy who gets sucked into his schemes through love of money, but even that scene ended up shallow, not touching on any of the points I would've liked to make. sweatdrop
Gratitude I sort of copped out on. When I tried thinking of prose or poetry, it felt either sappy or emo. I could write "I'm grateful for sunshine!" or I could write "I'm grateful I was born in the US instead of one of the countries it consistently ******** with," but both of those are groan-worthy. Or maybe I just think gratitude is something that gets cheapened by talking about it. I dunno. Flea is a complicated pest. >_>;
First Romance was surprisingly easy. I thought it would be hard and sappy, so I decided to write about one of my jaded characters who doesn't much believe in romance anymore. It was supposed to be her reminiscing, and somehow this huge thing poured out, but I really liked it. =3
Wow. It seems I have a lot more hard times than easy ones. sweatdrop Or I just remember them better. Sometimes, I come across a prompt and just don't feel inspired by it, and then I wonder if it would be better to take a prompt from somewhere else or make a new one, because writing with inspiration is better than just forcing out words to fit a dull topic...
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 4:53 am
I am so glad to know I wasn't the only one who looked up 'gilding a lily'... I took it literally at first - did anyone else did that?
The first week had the easiest prompts. Nothing needed to prove that.
Week I
New Beginnings was an appropriate prompt for the first day in the challenge considering we were entering the challenge for a year.
Cause/Effect is a basic thing for every poet. Well, that's what condense most of a poem's storyline -- one of which is sometimes good as a sonnet.
Peace of Mind had a nice ring to it. I liked how we were supposed to actualize that there could really be peace in one's mind unless the mind was stunned or going unconscious. My approach was the latter.
Childhood Memories was my favorite. I remember things from when I was three years old. Even sunrises and sunsets (exactly why I am so inclined to those scenes)...
Speed and Mayhem made me think of nearly the same thing. Only that speed was more of a serene rush and mayhem was more of a chaotic topic.
Gilding a Lily --- I didn't even know what this meant. XD
I found it hard to keep up with my list when my review month started. I wasn't expecting college entrance exams to be so hard, difficult, excruciating, irritating, exhausting, mind-blowing (for real) and down-right, incredibly impossible to perfect. I was able to keep track of my challenge because I mostly do poems. I often had ideas coming from, surprisingly, out of the blue although I am glad I do.
Queen of Hearts --- This. This was the hardest for me as far as I've gotten.
Anyway, I'm still on the date and hope everyone is too.
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:36 am
Just on a basic level, this summer has been hectic so far, so keeping up with any kind of daily challenge has been almost impossible. Unfortunately, now I want to work on my novel rather than short pieces, so I'm currently trying to work out the best way to deal with both (when one at a time is hard enough. rofl )
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Psychotic Maniacal Sanity Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 2:31 am
I've been putting off starting because I'm so worn out from work that I can't commit to that much writing until vacation starts. sad
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