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

[geckobird.livejournal.com]

It's interesting how when you read Victorian literature, it's writing style just takes over you.

I think it sounds quite amusing. ^_^ Though when it comes to writing letters, it's immensely fun to utilize Victorian prose!

Speaking of writing, I've done a lot of revamping of my Kate and Jill novel, and now I'm thinking that if I alter it anymore I'll tear out my hair. I have to just stick with it. Let it sit and stop being fussy.

Are you ever like that? Re-writing a scene over and over again because there's just something about it that you don't quite like, but it never turns out as perfect as you would like? That's where I stand now. :P

I hope you're able to finish it and organize it somehow! For it sounds like such a good idea. By the way, whenever I read your journal entries, I learn so much about that period of American history. It's fascinating at times.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

i have definitely rewritten some scenes ad nauseum on various projects, though have usually managed to settle into something i am happy with (after about the 100th try) ~ hahahahaha.

i do agree, though, sometimes you just have to stop poking at the thing and let it breathe for a while.

i'm glad to hear your are still working away on Kate and Jill! now that you've revamped, you can let it set before you serve (just like pie!).

: D