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Mar. 1st, 2010
Here goes...
Mar. 1st, 2010 11:50 pmI've been writing quite a lot lately. There's notebooks and scraps of paper and stuff on my phone. Some of it's whole scenes, other bits of it snippets of dialogue and other bits still are worldbuilding. It's not a complete thing in my head. I can sense the picture but it doesn't talk to me as such, nor have I seen it as a whole since the flash of inspiration.
It feels like a jigsaw puzzle. There's a corner here, a piece of sky there and a 'that's what I'm supposed to look like' overall feeling.
I've been poking it and prodding it and fighting with voices and characters (Eugene is very ticked off at his nickname) and I got a bit...disheartened in a way. Then I read this and remembered that I never have complete stories from start to finish. I only ever have bits and pieces and maybe a vague sense of a timeline and plot. And this is not wrong. So I sat down again and hammered at it for a while.
It's not perfect, but it says everything I want it to say and introduces the two main characters. It may not say it exactly how it wants to be said and it's probably a bit stilted and abrupt in places, but that's nearly 3000 words wot I wrote all by myself. I'm sort of happy with it.
( And so, to the story. )
It feels like a jigsaw puzzle. There's a corner here, a piece of sky there and a 'that's what I'm supposed to look like' overall feeling.
I've been poking it and prodding it and fighting with voices and characters (Eugene is very ticked off at his nickname) and I got a bit...disheartened in a way. Then I read this and remembered that I never have complete stories from start to finish. I only ever have bits and pieces and maybe a vague sense of a timeline and plot. And this is not wrong. So I sat down again and hammered at it for a while.
It's not perfect, but it says everything I want it to say and introduces the two main characters. It may not say it exactly how it wants to be said and it's probably a bit stilted and abrupt in places, but that's nearly 3000 words wot I wrote all by myself. I'm sort of happy with it.
( And so, to the story. )
Here goes...
Mar. 1st, 2010 11:50 pmI've been writing quite a lot lately. There's notebooks and scraps of paper and stuff on my phone. Some of it's whole scenes, other bits of it snippets of dialogue and other bits still are worldbuilding. It's not a complete thing in my head. I can sense the picture but it doesn't talk to me as such, nor have I seen it as a whole since the flash of inspiration.
It feels like a jigsaw puzzle. There's a corner here, a piece of sky there and a 'that's what I'm supposed to look like' overall feeling.
I've been poking it and prodding it and fighting with voices and characters (Eugene is very ticked off at his nickname) and I got a bit...disheartened in a way. Then I read this and remembered that I never have complete stories from start to finish. I only ever have bits and pieces and maybe a vague sense of a timeline and plot. And this is not wrong. So I sat down again and hammered at it for a while.
It's not perfect, but it says everything I want it to say and introduces the two main characters. It may not say it exactly how it wants to be said and it's probably a bit stilted and abrupt in places, but that's nearly 3000 words wot I wrote all by myself. I'm sort of happy with it.
( And so, to the story. )
It feels like a jigsaw puzzle. There's a corner here, a piece of sky there and a 'that's what I'm supposed to look like' overall feeling.
I've been poking it and prodding it and fighting with voices and characters (Eugene is very ticked off at his nickname) and I got a bit...disheartened in a way. Then I read this and remembered that I never have complete stories from start to finish. I only ever have bits and pieces and maybe a vague sense of a timeline and plot. And this is not wrong. So I sat down again and hammered at it for a while.
It's not perfect, but it says everything I want it to say and introduces the two main characters. It may not say it exactly how it wants to be said and it's probably a bit stilted and abrupt in places, but that's nearly 3000 words wot I wrote all by myself. I'm sort of happy with it.
( And so, to the story. )