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write_awayHey all! I skipped another couple weeks and felt bad so here's a post to rant and rave about whatever's on your mind a day late. What's going well and what's driving you crazy?
For today's picture, I feel like showing some more Remedios Varo. It's called Encounter.
Note: I may not get to respond to some of you until tomorrow morning depending on when you reply. I'm spending today and tonight at my girlfriend's place and I never bring my laptop because I get to see her so rarely. But I always try to respond to everyone who replies to these posts so I don't want it to look like I'm ignoring anyone.
For today's picture, I feel like showing some more Remedios Varo. It's called Encounter.
Note: I may not get to respond to some of you until tomorrow morning depending on when you reply. I'm spending today and tonight at my girlfriend's place and I never bring my laptop because I get to see her so rarely. But I always try to respond to everyone who replies to these posts so I don't want it to look like I'm ignoring anyone.
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Date: 2014-09-20 12:23 pm (UTC)Also: New novel. Does not. Have PLOT. Just a sequence of unconnected events that may not even be in the right sequence.
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Date: 2014-09-20 12:27 pm (UTC)I hope you find a plot in those events that you're happy with.
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Date: 2014-09-20 12:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-20 12:39 pm (UTC)It might not work for you though. I've written some stories where I had practically nothing planned ahead of time except a couple characters and some vague ideas for events that could happen at some point. It took some time to figure out what the real plot was but I just kept writing and it came together. I've found that overall I prefer to do the planning I talked about in my last paragraph, but this sort of exploratory method can definitely work too.
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Date: 2014-09-20 12:56 pm (UTC)And, writing this comment, I just realized that maybe it should also be about her wanting to approve of him, but he's just so damned incorrigible, so that's an element I should stick in there too, if I can. *squint*
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Date: 2014-09-20 04:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-20 08:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-20 09:00 pm (UTC)Good plan.
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Date: 2014-09-20 12:24 pm (UTC)So I'm going to call that a test run and try again starting October 1st. Obviously I can't just keep going "oops, that didn't count, I'll start for real later" so I'm only letting myself do this once.
Still, I managed to keep it up for 37 days in a row and I'm pretty happy with that. I've gotten some stories I really love and want to revise from it too.
This is also the time of year when I start thinking about NaNoWriMo. Yes, I'm doing both these challenges. Adding several writing challenges together is a different kind of stress from the school thing so I think I can handle this. But I need to figure out what I want to write in November. I'm still at the stage where I'm getting really excited about an idea for a few days and then throwing it out before replacing it with a new one. I haven't hit on the one that I really want to do yet.
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Date: 2014-09-20 12:50 pm (UTC)Stupefying Stories is going to do POD runs of their issues now, and they're also doing their back issues, so I'm going to get to hold my story in my hand. And get paid again. WIN.
I nearly decided to scrub the "I Am the Abyss" project, because the deadline is coming up fast, yo. But I have a complete outline for the damn thing and they say they'll take a partial sub if I don't finish, so what, really, do I have to lose? I really wanted to write this story, so here I am. Writing it. Or, you know, I will be once I finish this comment.
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Date: 2014-09-20 12:55 pm (UTC)I'm still deciding if I'm going to do something for I Am the Abyss. I know the deadline is in like 10 days but I have a lot of free time since I'm only in school part time and I haven't yet gotten an answer to any of the applications I've put out for jobs, so if I push myself really hard I might be able to finish one of the things I started in time. I've been really wanting to do this one since the first time you brought it to our attention because I just love writing stories in different versions of the afterlife.
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Date: 2014-09-20 01:06 pm (UTC)Have you thought about subbing to Writers of the Future? Their deadline for this quarter is the end of the month, so if you could throw a spit and polish on something and send it their way, that might get you on the horse. And there are, golly, so many markets. You just can't let rejection crush you, which is hard at the beginning--but I recently had a story published that garnered (literally) thirty rejections before it found a perfect home that didn't even exist when I wrote it.
But this business is rough, and you need to find your own comfort level, and that's okay. Don't let me or anyone else push you into something you're uncomfortable with.
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Date: 2014-09-20 01:19 pm (UTC)I've been reading up on the business for quite a while because it makes for good procrastination that feels like actual work. I may decide that subbing stories really isn't for me and go back to writing purely for my own entertainment. But I want to at least try. I'm not going to let rejection scare me away before I even face it. Not forever anyway. I'm still preparing myself at the moment. I just last night figured out that the story that was going to be my first experience with getting critiqued and professionally judged is way too emotionally loaded for how uncertain I am about how fragile I may or may not be when it comes time to face rejection. Now that I know to focus on projects that don't mean quite so much to me yet I think it will go better.
As for I Am the Abyss, I'm not really worried about finishing the first draft. I have written the length they want in a day more times than I remember. It's the editing that will be taking up all my time. I wish us both good luck!
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Date: 2014-09-20 01:31 pm (UTC)I wish us both good luck as well. This story is way out of my comfort zone, because I suck at description, but I'm going to give it my best shot. I hope to see us both in the table of contents. :)
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Date: 2014-09-20 03:31 pm (UTC)Now after that's sent out, I'm sure I'll be finding plenty to rant about in my limbo time.
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Date: 2014-09-21 11:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-20 04:48 pm (UTC)(Besides, it's hard to tell if a piece is emotionally effective when I don't feel much of anything.)
I've started just carving out time to write, for the sake of my own sanity. Writing functions as a form of meditation for me, taking me out of my own head until I can deal with it again.
I'm almost through the hard rewrite of a Bravely Default fanfiction, and then I'll polish it...next week, probably. ...that thing needs a name. hm.
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Date: 2014-09-21 11:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-20 09:01 pm (UTC)JUST FUCKING ADMIT YOU WRITE SF ALREADY It's nothing to be ashamed off
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Date: 2014-09-21 11:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-20 10:39 pm (UTC)Also my mother has claimed that the next time she sees I'm writing, she'll not disturb me unless it's an emergency, so we'll see how that goes. Haha.
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Date: 2014-09-21 11:49 pm (UTC)My first drafts are always shorter than the polished story should be. I sometimes race through scenes and then have to go back and add description so you can actually tell what's going on without having my notes in your head. One of the biggest things for me is long sections of dialogue getting telling bits of body language and tone added to them where I ignored those things before. I'm sure you can find some things that need to be built up more if you're not happy with it now. But if not, that's fine too. 35k is a respectable novella. Nothing wrong with that.
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Date: 2014-09-21 11:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-22 03:21 am (UTC)Ngl though I'm pretty proud of what I just wrote. But I'm sure I'll hate it in the morning.
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Date: 2014-09-23 10:56 pm (UTC)I hope you still like what you wrote. I usually keep liking the stuff I liked originally. I don't really go through that period where I hate everything. I feel like maybe it isn't good but I still like it anyway.