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the best laid plans...
there was an accident early this morning and the car got scraped up. nobody is hurt, but the whole day's plans have gone in a different direction than was originally plotted.
such is life.
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so i did rest, and i needed it badly. i almost feel human. i also worked on "The Rose" ( i can hear laurie clapping! me tooooo !! ) and changed the POV from first to third. it worked a lot better that way. i also chopped and finangled, and it reads a lot better, at least to my eye. it came in at 1200 from 1700, and nothing i cut will be missed. sometimes i get carried away.
i'm not sure i will ever be anything other than the flash queen. i just love the format...i'm good at it. i'm not sure i can sustain a story in the over, say 3000 range - and in a way that bothers me. is it because i have the attention span of a gnat? is it because once i get to a certain point i don't know where to go? is it because i may suffer from ADD? is it because it's difficult and i just don't want to do it? does that make me a lazy writer? well, SOMEBODY'S gotta write flash, right?
*sigh*
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i organized some notes, made some more, and got into some kind of order what i want to work on next. i had a lot of old stuff that has marinated long enough; cleaned them up and sent them out. now, methinks, it's time to fill up the trunk again.
and yes, DW has been on my mind again. there's 20k just sitting there, waiting for a major overhaul and addition. i'm not up to that yet, although i can feel it percolating.
i have come to realize my best bet is to let the machinations of the subconcious carry on, and to pay attention when the signs are that something is ripe and needs to come out.
i have also realized that my older stuff is not garbage, but i am a better writer now than i was four years ago. that there is material there i can work with and make better. that if i just let go of my inner anal self, ( at least until editing ) it's amazing what can result.
for instance...
"The Rose". ( i hate that title, it is so going. ) normally, i would have worked it in the first person and never would i have entertained the thought of changing it to the third. why? because i resist change at times. why? hell if i know. sometimes i'm afraid if i change a piece too much, it will become unrecognizable and i will lose it entirely. i treat it like it's an egg, and if i mess around with it too much it will get scrambled. since i keep almost all my "crumbs", is that not stupid??
the only reason i changed the POV is because perry had posted a prompt some time ago about changing a story's POV while keeping the plot intact. i was intrigued. could i do it? well, yes...yes i could. cool.
works for me.
****
alrighty then. now i have to clean and organize some more ( there may be some kind of OCD element here, in light of the day's happenings ) and then see how strong the brew is, and if i can capture it on paper.
:)
such is life.
****
so i did rest, and i needed it badly. i almost feel human. i also worked on "The Rose" ( i can hear laurie clapping! me tooooo !! ) and changed the POV from first to third. it worked a lot better that way. i also chopped and finangled, and it reads a lot better, at least to my eye. it came in at 1200 from 1700, and nothing i cut will be missed. sometimes i get carried away.
i'm not sure i will ever be anything other than the flash queen. i just love the format...i'm good at it. i'm not sure i can sustain a story in the over, say 3000 range - and in a way that bothers me. is it because i have the attention span of a gnat? is it because once i get to a certain point i don't know where to go? is it because i may suffer from ADD? is it because it's difficult and i just don't want to do it? does that make me a lazy writer? well, SOMEBODY'S gotta write flash, right?
*sigh*
****
i organized some notes, made some more, and got into some kind of order what i want to work on next. i had a lot of old stuff that has marinated long enough; cleaned them up and sent them out. now, methinks, it's time to fill up the trunk again.
and yes, DW has been on my mind again. there's 20k just sitting there, waiting for a major overhaul and addition. i'm not up to that yet, although i can feel it percolating.
i have come to realize my best bet is to let the machinations of the subconcious carry on, and to pay attention when the signs are that something is ripe and needs to come out.
i have also realized that my older stuff is not garbage, but i am a better writer now than i was four years ago. that there is material there i can work with and make better. that if i just let go of my inner anal self, ( at least until editing ) it's amazing what can result.
for instance...
"The Rose". ( i hate that title, it is so going. ) normally, i would have worked it in the first person and never would i have entertained the thought of changing it to the third. why? because i resist change at times. why? hell if i know. sometimes i'm afraid if i change a piece too much, it will become unrecognizable and i will lose it entirely. i treat it like it's an egg, and if i mess around with it too much it will get scrambled. since i keep almost all my "crumbs", is that not stupid??
the only reason i changed the POV is because perry had posted a prompt some time ago about changing a story's POV while keeping the plot intact. i was intrigued. could i do it? well, yes...yes i could. cool.
works for me.
****
alrighty then. now i have to clean and organize some more ( there may be some kind of OCD element here, in light of the day's happenings ) and then see how strong the brew is, and if i can capture it on paper.
:)
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