outline junk and unprogress in dollLand ~

[lookingland]

i'm tired of being poor at the moment. this morning i couldn't find my pencil. the thought of going out to buy a new one gave me angina (what kind of writer only has one good pencil anyway?).

i still can't find my pencil. but i've decided to do something else that doesn't require one.

: o p

i'm too disorganized. so i'm going to go back to outlining.

i'm going to try something a wee different this time. i'm going to try working with card again. if i recall correctly, i used notecards to organize Exposition and i used them for at least of the drafts of FSM at some point along the road. i also used them for last year's NaNo, The Kidnapped Christ. i was sort of sloppy about how i used them, but nevertheless used them (and had i not, i would have never finished NaNo).

normally i just outline on paper and run with that. it's contained and appeals to my sense of heirarchy, not scattershot like cards tend to get. but considering the way my brain is working lately, scatter-shot sounds more the order of the day. so i'm going to set up paper outlines, then make cards based on them, and then throw them in a hat and just work on whatever comes to the top. if i can discipline myself to write at least one scene a day, i think i could maybe get something done.

i've got an outline for Figfield done. invariably these things always end up more complex than i think they will be. it took me all afternoon betweens naps to finish it. (yes, it's a hard life i lead). anyway, the next step is making up the cards. then i'd like to get to it.

i also have a sort of outline (the 10th at least) for The Company We Keep which i keep revising. i'm thinking of working on the two simultaneously, so i'm going to make cards for it as well to keep that rolling forward.

The View from the Back Porch and The Hot Spot are officially on the backburner until i get these other two pieces sorta sketched in.

~ * ~

i don't normally make paper dolls of famous people/famous characters, etc, but i so started to make a V (from V for Vendetta) paper doll. i sketched the design for it and then managed to restrain myself from actually executing it. but i don't know how long i can hold off (prolly until i find my pencil ~ hahahahaha). i would have scanned the prototype to share, but that sounds like work. hahahaha ~


who knew i could be such a fan girl?
but as they say:
one man's terrorist
is another man's freedom fighter.
something to think about.

Comments

[geckobird.livejournal.com]

Outlines and cards. Hmm... I've always have a terrible time with outlines. I'll carefully write one out, and then when I sit down to write the draft, it never turns out the way I had planned in the outline. Sometimes I just throw the outline over my shoulder and just "wing it" for it's too frustrating to try to force the scenes to work based on my little outline ~ for the writing becomes flat and uninteresting. I think we discuccsed outlines before ~ a few months back. Haha, I wonder if I can locate it in my LJ entries? Or maybe it was an LL convo. Either way, I still find your outline method fascinating. It just seems so organized to me. In the sense you know where you need to go, and ways to get there.

I too have to know my characters well ~ I like to write prompts about who they are, and I often write scenes that probably won't appear in my draft to learn more about their intracacies. I then have to have that set in my mind, and of course, the character may change as the story goes along, but then we all change as we experience new things ~ whether for ill or good. It's a bit of an adventure in a way.

I like the card idea. Don't know if it'd work at orginizing me... but it might work for character development ~ haha, one of my favorite hobbies in fact. ^_^

And I've never seen Vendetta. A must see, I take it?

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

maybe cards would work for you if you'r enot inclined to outline ~ everyone works differently and ultimately it comes down to whatever works for you best ~ but trying new stuff is also good, i never thought outlining would be good for me and suddenly i realized what an amazingly helpful tool it is for someone like me whoo has too much going on all the time.

see Vendetta ~ it's a little harsh in places, but definitely an interesting and provocative film! sort of Beauty and the Beast meets the Matrix (but better).

: D