i remember when i used to be able to write ~

[lookingland]

this is just a necessary update on the whole pursuance thing:

the bad thing about saturating your brain with victorian writing is that you inadvertently start emulating it.

Mr. Hanty never settles easily into anything, being by nature vigilant and by experience knowledgeable in the myriad ways that fickle Fortune turns her face from the favored.

yeah, wow. i churned that buttery crumpet out with about a dozen others like pez this afternoon. i can't decide if it's bad writing or just really amusing.

the book is mostly a mess. i've lost confidence in doing it justice. the characters are more alive than ever for me, i feel like i have a solid handle on them, but now they're bopping around in my head, knocking into each other like little shorebirds puttering drunk in the surf.

spent i don't know how much time cutting Poppet's defense from 17 pages down to 11, but it still seems pretty dang long and even though i think i did a pretty brilliant job of preserving its integrity and tightening some of its very victorian rhetorical devices, i just don't know otherwise what to do with it.

i want to hire an artist and dispense with the narrative. the dialogue is all written, it's painting in the rest of the scenes that's making me crazy.

i am trying, so hard, not to get so frustrated that i throw this thing out the window. i want to finish it ~ at least so that it's complete beginning to end, even if that means i have to shove it in a drawer for a few months in order to get some perspective on it. at least then i can come back to it as a whole instead of scattershot as it is now. for having generated such an extensive and elaborate outline for this project, i sure have made an unsightly mess of keeping it all organized.

: o p

p.s. lj seems to having some strange notification lag going on ~ so i'm not ignoring anybody, i promise. if i haven't responded to something it's because i have no idea i was s'pose to.

Comments

[lastremnant.livejournal.com]

I've noticed the same lag. It seems this happens every six months or so on here, doesn't it?

Putting something aside for a while works very well, especially if you get frustrated by something you are writing. I know that when I get frustrated with something (like this query letter), it will take me ten times longer to get through one sentence then when I am more relaxed and patient with it. So definitely put it aside for a few days, get your head off of it, do some other stuff, and then take it out again. :)

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

true that: on the lag. this morning i had a ton of emails in my box ~ hahahahaha.

i've been taking a break, but yeah, maybe i need a longer break ~ hahahahaha ~ this is why i want to just finish a complete draft, so i won't feel like i need to keep picking it up.

: D